This study attempts to look at the extent, causes, manifestation and the interventions made on trafficking of children in the country.  

It is now common practice to infer the social status of women from their demographic characteristics. Yet it is not so easy to read through demographic progress, in terms of declines in mortality and fertility, to make unambiguous judgments about trends in women's social standing.

Recent studies examining British attitudes and ideologies which structured colonial policies towards 'outcaste'2 and 'deviant' groups in indigenous society, have suggested that the groups who were marginalised included those whose activities were conceived of as 'threatening' to new normative def

Status literally means position in relation to others. The status enjoyed by women in any society is an index of the standard of its social organisation.