Trafficking is the activity of buying and selling commodities or services illegally. This transnational research study seeks to look at the different facets of trafficking and illicit activities perpetuated by the organized criminal groups and, to suggest policies which would be effective in curbing the magnitude of trafficking and in preventing the human rights violations to which victims are so often subjected to multiple forms of exploitation. Siddhartha Sarkar Siddhartha Sarkar (b.1973), PhD (Economics), PDF (The Netherlands and Hungary), CAF (London, UK) , MISPCAN (USA) is Principal and Executive Head at Ananda Chandra College of Commerce, West Bengal, India, and Founder and Director of Centre for Human Trafficking Research. He has previously been a Post Doctoral Fellow and Visiting Professor (2006) in University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, a Senior Post Doctoral and Professorial Fellow (2010) in Thammasat University and Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, Senior Post Doctoral Fellow and Visiting Professor (2011) in Corvinus University and Central European University, Hungary. He was also a Commonwealth Academic Fellow (2013-2014) in SOAS, University of London, London School of Economics and Political Science, Cambridge University, United Kingdom, and European Commission Erasmus Mundus Visiting Professor (2015) in University of Warsaw, Poland. Sarkar is nominated as a working committee member of the ‘National Institution for Transforming India’ (NITI Aayog), Government of India and the recipient of India Leadership Award 2018.