The National Anti-Trafficking Committee (NATC) is a National organisation that was established in 1962 and registered under NITI Aayog, vide no. WB/2018/0203440 Government of India. NATC has a presence across India with its headquarters in New Delhi and a zonal administrative office in every state capital.
NATC is a 24/7 National, Continental, Multi-nodal hotline and resource committee that works to prevent and combat human and animal trafficking, as well as to provide necessary assistance and protection to trafficking survivors.
NATC works on the following issues as part of its fight for a trafficking-free nation:
- to stop human trafficking (children, women, and men)
- to stop wildlife trafficking
- to prevent forced child labour and child sex
- to stop domestic servitude
- to save dropout students
- to start a literacy drive for girls and enlist them in schools
- to engage the girls in occupations to make them economically self-independent
- to stop early marriage
- to protect and support universal human rights
- to prevent disasters, mitigation & preparedness safeguard development
- to support environmental justice
- to support PILs & Cases
- to promote secularism and peace
- to stop drug trafficking
- to stop organ trafficking
- to give relief and aid to people rescued from being trafficked
- to aid in the prevention of crime and the implementation of criminal justice strategies
- to safeguard migrant workers
- to promote the rights of people with physical or mental disabilities, as well as provide them with food, shelter, clothing, medical care, education, and other necessities.
- to establish, promote, and provide financial assistance to schools, colleges, and research institutions in order to develop anti-trafficking campaigns
- to provide services to domestic violence and sexual assault centres, reproductive health centres, and homeless, runaway, and street youth
NATC has made significant contributions to the fight against human trafficking by assisting with protection, prevention, vigilance, rescue, post-rescue operations, victim care, prosecution, victim empowerment, legal support, advocacy, policy and administrative reforms, rehabilitation and reintegration, social awareness, and networking.