Consider the following statements

1. The Blue Heart Campaign is India's anti-trafficking program.
2. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a non-binding declaration to prohibit slavery.

Select the correct statement.

Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children in 2000 as a part of the UN Convention Against Transnational Organised Crime.

• The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) is responsible for implementing the protocol.
• It offers practical help to states with drafting laws, creating comprehensive national anti-trafficking strategies, and assisting with resources to implement them.
• Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air.
• It entered into force on 28th January 2004.
• This also supplements the UN Convention Against Transnational Organised Crime.
• The Protocol is aimed at the protection of rights of migrants and the reduction of the power and influence of organized criminal groups that abuse migrants.

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) is a non-binding declaration that establishes the right of every human to live with dignity and prohibits slavery.

• The Blue Heart Campaign is an international anti-trafficking program started by the UNODC. 
• Sustainable Development Goals: Various SDGs aim to end trafficking by targeting its roots and means viz.
• Goal 5 (Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls),
• Goal 8 (Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all) and
• Goal 16 (Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels).

Hence only statement 2nd is correct.

By: Shubham Tiwari