Aakarsh Banyal and Ashwin Vardarajan

Aakarsh Banyal (University Merit Scholar) is an undergraduate law student at Symbiosis Law School, Pune, India. He has a keen interest in international law and previously served as an intern to Dr. Siobhán Mullally (UN Special Rapporteur on Trafficking in Persons). Ashwin Vardarajan is an undergraduate law student at Symbiosis Law School, Pune. His research interests include constitutional law, human rights law, and allied fields.

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Towards Non-Punishment and Anti-Trafficking Law Reform in Asia

Towards Non-Punishment and Anti-Trafficking Law Reform in Asia

The non-punishment principle (‘NPP’) refers to protecting victims of trafficking from detention, prosecution, and conviction for crimes they commit as a consequence of being trafficked. In the recent case of V.C.L. and A.N. v. United ...