What are the countries in South Asia where trafficking is noted to be highest?
Ambassador Lagon: As I mentioned before, there is a demand for migrant workers from all South Asian states. There is a massive migration to other places, from other countries including India and Pakistan. There are different circumstances to some extent, in India and Pakistan or problems peculiar to them; the phenomenon of bonded labor particularly for lower castes exists in India and Pakistan. Both countries have laws which allow for people to be liberated from bonded labor and claim restitution. But like in other cases, realizing the principles enshrined in law in reality needs to be increased. But that’s peculiar to India and Pakistan. There is a good deal of child labor in South Asia in general and when that child labor is of a particularly severe form, which the International Labor Organization calls the “worst forms of child labor,” then it is technically a form of human trafficking because of the level of exploitation. This might be a good moment to just note something. Human tr
