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FEATURED ARTICLES *** Families of Bharatpur push their
minor girls into prostitution Indo-Asian News Service IANS, July 2, 2006 [accessed 24 May 2011] The girls are mostly aged between 12 and 15, though some are as young as 10. They stand at the roadside along with their fathers and brothers who fix the 'price' for them. “What can we do, we have to send
our daughters into this profession as there are no alternative means of
livelihood.” Arabian Sex Tourism Daniel Pipes, Front Page Magazine, October 7, 2005 www.danielpipes.org/3022/arabian-sex-tourism [accessed 24 May 2011] Sunita Krishnan, head of an anti human-trafficking organization, Prajwala, makes the only too-obvious point that girl children are not valued. "If a girl child is sold or her life ruined, it is not a national loss, that's why this is a non-issue, both for community and to society." Using minors in prostitution is a billion dollar industry
in the city Haima Desshpande,
Daily News & Analysis DNA, Mar 9, 2007 [accessed 24 May 2011] For most, Mumbai remains a city of dreams. But, for some, it has become a place full of nightmares. In recent years, the financial capital of the country has emerged as one of the leading markets for trafficked minors who engage in prostitution or, in other words, the commercial sexual abuse of a minor. As instances of HIV and AIDS reach alarming proportions, demand for younger, pre-puberty girls has hit an all-time high. Girls as little as seven and eight-years-old are being forced into prostitution, both in the red-light areas and as “professional” call girls (always accompanied by an adult), according to a DNA investigation. “Trafficking in minor girls has seen an estimated 30 per cent increase from previous years,” says a social activist working at Kamatipura — the city’s most notorious red-light district. “Poverty due to prolonged drought,
mounting farm debts, unemployment and lack of livelihood are the triggering
factors, which are forcing parents to send their daughters out of town for
employment.” “Even when girls are rescued, families are unwilling
to take them back,” says the police source. “This has become a common story
in the rural areas.” Study reveals male child sexual abuse in Puri Toysoldier, November 28, 2008 toysoldier.wordpress.com/2008/11/28/study-reveals-male-child-sexual-abuse-in-puri/ [accessed 24 May 2011] According to the study, all the
children explained poverty as one of the factors responsible for their
situation. “I am staying with Joseph
(a French tourist) for the last five years. He says that he will take me with
him. I have sex with him regularly. Initially it was painful, I used to
cry. Now it is a daily routine. He gives money to my family. He has sex with
other children also. Sometimes, he wants us to have sex with each other (peer
children). I am just waiting for the day when he will take me with him and so
I agree with whatever he does to me and my family,” said Raju,
a 15-year-old boy, according to the study. “Building relationship with
foreign tourists is more profitable than domestic tourists as foreign
tourists provide children with toys, chocolates, cycles, nice dresses and
sometimes money to renovate their houses or to build house as well.” They have sex with a wide range of tourists
who pay any amount ranging between Rs 50 and Rs 200 per day, the study says. ***
ARCHIVES *** CHILDLINE - Toll Free Call 1098 - Night & Day ChildLine www.childlineindia.org.in/aboutus08.htm [accessed 14 September 2011] CHILDLINE reaches out to all children in need
of care and protection such as: street children, child labourers,
children who have been abused, child victims of flesh trade, differently-abled children, child addicts, children in conflict with
the law, children in institutions, mentally challenged children, HIV/AIDs infected children, children affected by conflict and
disaster, child political refugees, children whose families are in crises. The Government of Delhi running
the 'youth' helpline named Yuva Phone line in Website to track missing children launched Anasuya Menon,
The Hindu, www.hindu.com/2007/02/10/stories/2007021013590100.htm [accessed 10 February 2011] Anyone who has lost their child
can post a message on this website and a search will be set in motion
simultaneously in 40 cities in the country.
Launched by Don Bosco National Forum for
Youth at Risk in association with UNICEF, www.missingchildsearch.net will be closely watched and monitored
by child welfare organisations in all major cities
in the country and a search will be generated immediately. The Don Bosco National Forum for Youth at Risk is a major partner
of Childline India Foundation and extends service
to hundreds of children who are victims of war, conflict, natural calamities,
sexual exploitation, trafficking and HIV/AIDS. They also take care of street
and working children. www.missingindiankids.com/index.htm [accessed 24 May 2011] ECPAT Global Monitoring Report on the status of action
against commercial exploitation of children - INDIA [PDF] ECPAT International, 2006 www.ecpat.net/A4A_2005/PDF/South_Asia/Global_Monitoring_Report-INDIA.pdf [accessed 29 May 2011] Research conducted in 2003 by
ECPAT International and Equations, its affiliate group in The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms
of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/india.htm [accessed 10 February 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Commercial sexual exploitation of children, including child sex
tourism, occurs in major cities. Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61707.htm [accessed 10 February 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS - An
estimated 6 to 10 thousand children from Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of
the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 26 February 2004 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/india2004.html [accessed 10 February 2011] [74] The Committee expresses its concern
at the increasing number of child victims of sexual exploitation, including
prostitution and pornography. Concern is also expressed at the insufficient
programs for the physical and psychological recovery and social reintegration
of child victims of such abuse and exploitation. Prostitution of boys at Deutsche Presse-Agentur (German
Press Agency) DPA, [accessed 29 May 2011] Sexual exploitation of boys in
three of 'There is a dearth of information
on male child sexual exploitation and prostitution due to the assumption that
most sexual exploiters are men and therefore their victims are women or
girls. However, this is not true,' said S Vidya, a
coordinator with the Equations. 'The double standards that
society has about homosexuality and the fact that it is criminalized in India
only makes the problem less visible.' In Tirupati,
which receives mostly Indians, a survey of boys aged between 6 and 18 years
revealed that sexual abuse of boys is rampant due to demand from domestic
tourists. Pressure on boys to earn a living for the family was cited as a
reason why they were forced into prostitution. 'Family
members saw less risk when male children are involved in selling sex as
compared to girls, as the social stigma is less and the fear of pregnancy
does not exist,' the report said. Study reveals male child sexual abuse in Puri Toysoldier, November 28, 2008 toysoldier.wordpress.com/2008/11/28/study-reveals-male-child-sexual-abuse-in-puri/ [accessed 24 May 2011] According to the study, all the
children explained poverty as one of the factors responsible for their
situation. “I am staying with Joseph
(a French tourist) for the last five years. He says that he will take me with
him. I have sex with him regularly. Initially it was painful, I used to
cry. Now it is a daily routine. He gives money to my family. He has sex with other
children also. Sometimes, he wants us to have sex with each other (peer
children). I am just waiting for the day when he will take me with him and so
I agree with whatever he does to me and my family,” said Raju,
a 15-year-old boy, according to the study. “Building relationship with
foreign tourists is more profitable than domestic tourists as foreign
tourists provide children with toys, chocolates, cycles, nice dresses and
sometimes money to renovate their houses or to build house as well.” They have sex with a wide range of tourists
who pay any amount ranging between Rs 50 and Rs 200 per day, the study says. Prostitution thriving on teenagers in northeast Maitreyee Boruah,
Indo-Asian News Service IANS, Guwahati, May 31,
2008 The contents of this article had appeared under a
different title and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 29 May 2011] All is not well with children in In addition, the report also
states that most of the children are victims of acute physical torture.
"They are initially raped and flogged almost to death to take up the
profession," the report said. Jogesh Doley,
merinews.com, Apr 06, 2008 www.merinews.com/article/assam-human-trafficking-a-startling-revelation/131876.shtml [accessed 10 February 2011] Every year thousands of tea tribe
girls are lured by people and taken to different parts of India, to work as
slave and in most of the cases they lands up in brothels. Those who are
forced into sex work, or who are vulnerable to sexual exploitation as
domestic labourers, are particularly at risk of
sexually transmitted infections, including HIV, and unwanted pregnancy. The plight of the women from this
community has remained unheard and unattended, since ages and they are have
no other options but to migrate and to follow the people who lure them and
assure them good jobs out side the state. - htcp The scourge of human trafficking in India Sandhya Nigam,
merinews.com, Mar 17, 2008 www.merinews.com/article/the-scourge-of-human-trafficking-in-india/131079.shtml [accessed 10 February 2011] When Mona was 13 years, her mother
died and her father remarried. The stepmother was uncomfortable with Mona and
wanted to send her away for some job, where she would be able to look after
herself. Along came a ”contractor” who arranged jobs for youngsters as
domestic help, etc. He paid a certain sum of money to the stepmother and took
Mona to a town far away. He got her a job in a massage parlour as a ‘receptionist’. Even before Mona got to know
the work profile, she realized that she had been trapped into sexual
exploitation. She had become a sexual slave to the ‘customers’ who
frequented the place for full-body massage. HIV Prevention among street children in Mohammed MU; International Conference on AIDS -- Int Conf AIDS. 2002 Jul 7-12; 14: abstract no. WeOrD1273,
S.V.University, Dept. of Population Studies, Tirupati - gateway.nlm.nih.gov/MeetingAbstracts/ma?f=102253115.html [accessed 25 May 2011] Children’s Day under the shadow of the rape of childhood Rishabh, merinews,
Nov 13, 2007 www.merinews.com/article/childrens-day-under-the-shadow-of-the-rape-of-childhood/127664.shtml [accessed 25 May 2011] The definition of a ‘child’ in the Indian legal and policy
framework is someone below 18 years. Our laws are neither child friendly nor
child oriented. Here are few figures: - sccp q Less than half of India’s children
between the age of six and 14 go to school. q Only 38 per cent of children below
two years are immunised. q Over 50 per cent children are
malnourished. q One out of every six girls does not
live to see her 15th birthday. q Of 12 million girls born, one million
do not see their first birthday. q Females are victimised
far more than males in their childhood. q 53 per cent of girls in the age
group of five to nine years are illiterate. q There are two million child
commercial sex workers between the age of five and 15 years. q 17 million children in India work
out of compulsion, not out of choice. Women emerge as primary victims in trafficking Nava Thakuria, Law Resource indialawyers.wordpress.com/2007/10/28/women-emerge-as-primary-victims-in-trafficking/ [accessed 10 February 2011] Porous borders with economically poorer Addressing the conference, the minister Ms Chowdhury also argued that trafficking is by and large a
gendered phenomenon. The trafficking in India is primarily for the purpose of
commercial sexual exploitation. There are nearly three million sex workers in
India and 40 per cent of them are children or adolescent girls. Statistics
reveal that children below the age of 10 years are also found in the brothel
of Indian cities like Mumbai and Delhi now a day, the minister
disclosed. "Many believe that
having sex with young and virgin girls would cure them of diseases. It is
nonsense," Ms Chowdhury uttered. She
emphasized on reducing the demand for prostitutes, engagement of children in
workplaces, use of forced labour and empowering all collaborative efforts of
governments, NGOs and other institutions to deal with the situation. – htcp Action plan to combat human trafficking The Hindu, www.hindu.com/2007/10/10/stories/2007101055541300.htm [accessed 29 May 2011] According to the Minister of State
for Women and Child Development (independent charge), Renuka
Chowdhury, there were about three million sex
workers, 40 per cent of whom were children, and their demand was increasing. Over 650 Indian trafficking victims rescued: UNODC Press Trust of www.nts-pd.org/admin/affix/1193046531.pdf [accessed 11 February 2011] Over 650 Indians, including 138 minors,
who were victims to human trafficking, were rescued during the first six
months of this year, an United Nations agency said
here today. He claimed the average age of
girls being trafficked in South Asia was dropping. "While in 1980, the average age of
trafficked girls was 14 to 16 years, it dropped to 10-14 years in 1994. The
figure in 2006 has decreased," he said. Natalie Grant Helps Expand Efforts against Human
Trafficking Kevin Jackson, The Christian Post, Jul. 22 2007 www.christianpost.com/news/natalie-grant-helps-expand-efforts-against-human-trafficking-28557/ [accessed 29 May 2011] Grant has been able to witness the
process first hand with her travels around the world, particularly a trip to
the red-light district of "Homelessness and poverty are
tragic enough," added Grant, "but some of these children are kept
in cages and forced to perform heinous, unfathomable acts 50 and 60 times a
day. And you never hear anyone talk about it." No age of innocence, this Study reveals 14% of sex workers
are children aged 10-17 The Telegraph, Guwahati, July
17, 2007 www.telegraphindia.com/1070718/asp/northeast/story_8071092.asp [accessed 29 May 2011] If this makes you wince, there is
more. A study conducted by Global Organisation for Life Development, an NGO,
in co-ordination with Guwahati police has revealed
that a startling 14 per cent of those involved in prostitution are children
aged between 10 and 17. And those who gratify their lurid and perverse
desires by exploiting children are not part of the city’s underbelly but
affluent, well-heeled people who lend Guwahati much
of its sheen. Behind every minor languishing in
the flesh trade is a heartrending tale. Some have been forced into
prostitution by acquaintances or relatives, while others have been lured by
the hope of a better life. For a few, the parents themselves turned into
pimps. Police have identified Kalapahar, Nabin Nagar, Rajgarh, Pandu, Dispur, Beltola, Ganeshguri and Hatigaon areas of Guwahati as
hubs of prostitution and trafficking. Untamed legacy Ashish Mitra,
Screen www.screenindia.com/fullstory.php?content_id=16426 [accessed 29 May 2011] WHAT WAS IT IN THE REPORT THAT
MOVED YOU AND HOW DID YOU GET INTO THE MATTER? – I cannot talk about it in detail
but at one point I read, “The Dommara tribe from
Andhra Pradesh and several tribes across the Northern belt of the country
practice family-based prostitution. The Dommara
tribe’s pushing their girls into prostitution at puberty is the most extreme
example of prostitution - based gender oppression within a community. Sex abuse
of girls in this system manifests even before the girls’ initiation into the
system. Young girls who will be initiated into the system are often subjected
to sexual abuse from family and villages right upto
the time of their initiation ceremony. At that point, they go through a
ritual that is typical in that they are married to the village deity. The
girls are forced to submit to group sex with village leaders and priests
within the temple for a full week while her family and the rest of the
village feasts and celebrates. My grief knew no ends but I at the same time
resolved to research on the matter myself. Documentary tells story of Susan Stewart, New York Times, June 23, 2007 www.timesargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070623/FEATURES12/706230318/1023/FEATURES12 [access restricted] The Slavery In Posted 12-18-2007 www.indianofficer.com/forums/2593-slavery-still-exists.html#3 [Last accessed 30 August 2011] [scroll down to #3] The increase in human trafficking
cases in the last couple of years is worrying NGOs and exposes the
government’s apathy towards the social evil.
Figures say that more than 60 girls from Karnataka, who fell prey to
human trafficking, have been rescued from brothels and red light areas in
Mumbai, Kolkata and Delhi. These rescued girls, in the age-group of 12
to 20 years, are mostly from the northern districts of Bijapur,
Bagalkot, Shimoga, Mysore, Mandya and Chamrajnagar. They
fall easy prey to the agents who assure them of jobs and attractive earnings,
but they land up in brothels. State unaware of child abuse situation, projecting
deflated figues newindpress, Bhubaneswar
Orissa, April 12 2007 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 14 September 2011] The pilgrim town of But the State Administration and
Police make no attempt to move because the holy town also happens to be a
tourist hotspot. How to change the world - The role of the social
entrepreneur Nikhil Mustaffa,
The Daily Mirror, March 15, 2007 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 14 September 2011] As Childline
expanded to new cities, the call-tracking system also emerged as an important
source of child protection information. National data showed that the biggest
killer of street children was tuberculosis, but regional call patterns
revealed a variety of local problems. In Jaipur,
for example, childline received reports of abuse in
the garment and jewelry industries. In Varanasi,
there were reports of children being abducted to work in the sari industry.
In Delhi, many calls came from middle-class children. In Nagpur,
a transit hub, there were frequent reports of children abandoned in train stations.
In Goa, a beach resort, a major problem was the
sexual abuse of children by foreign tourists. Using minors in prostitution is a billion dollar industry
in the city Haima Desshpande,
Daily News & Analysis DNA, Mar 9, 2007 [accessed 24 May 2011] For most, Mumbai remains a city of
dreams. But, for some, it has become a place full of nightmares. In recent years, the financial capital of
the country has emerged as one of the leading markets for trafficked minors
who engage in prostitution or, in other words, the commercial sexual abuse of
a minor. As instances of HIV and AIDS reach
alarming proportions, demand for younger, pre-puberty girls has hit an
all-time high. Girls as little as seven and eight-years-old are being forced
into prostitution, both in the red-light areas and as “professional” call
girls (always accompanied by an adult), according to a DNA
investigation. “Trafficking in minor
girls has seen an estimated 30 per cent increase from previous years,” says a
social activist working at Kamatipura — the city’s
most notorious red-light district. “Poverty due to prolonged drought,
mounting farm debts, unemployment and lack of livelihood are the triggering
factors, which are forcing parents to send their daughters out of town for
employment.” “Even when girls are rescued, families are
unwilling to take them back,” says the police source. “This has become a
common story in the rural areas.” From street child to surgeon, Indian girl follows dream Reuters, Jaipur, 19 February
2007 [accessed 26 May 2011] Chand’s mother was a prostitute with 16 children living in Japiur’s red light area, and the girl — her family name has been withheld to protect her — was already a child prostitute when she ran away to eke an existence on the streets aged six. Even for Chand,
there is the constant threat of her past dragging her back to wreck her
future. “If I saw my family again they
would want me back to become a prostitute again to earn money,” she said
simply. Rape for Profit: Trafficking of Nepali Girls and Women to Human Rights Watch, 1 June 1995 www.unhcr.org/refworld/topic,463af2212,49709ebd2,3ae6a7e24,0.html [accessed 29 May 2011] When they brought me here, it was
in a taxi. I kept looking around, wondering what kind of work was going on in
this area of this big city. Everywhere I looked, I saw curtained doorways and
rooms. Men would go and come through these curtained entrances. People on the
street would be calling out, “Two rupees, two rupees.” I asked the other
Nepali women if these were offices; it seemed the logical explanation. In two
days I knew everything. I cried. Tara N., a Nepali woman who was trafficked into
Child prostitution in India Child Exploitation.org At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 29 May 2011] A survey conducted by Indian
Health Organization of a red light area of 1. 20% of the one lakh
prostitutes are children. 2. 25% of the child prostitutes had been
abducted and sold. 3. 6% had been raped and sold. 4. 8% had been sold by their fathers after
forcing them into incestuous relationships. 5. 2 lakh minor
girls between ages 9yrs-20yrs were brought every year from Nepal to India and
20,000 of them are in Bombay brothels. 6. 15% to 18% are adolescents between 13 yrs
and 18 yrs. United News & Information UNI, September 12, 2006 n-cat.blogspot.com/2006/09/bombay-hc-lambasts-police-inaction-in.html [accessed 11 February 2011] The court was told that the number
of minor girls rescued from brothels during the last three years was
shocking. As many as 26 girls were rescued in 2003, twelve in 2004, 31 girls
were rescued in 2005 and 27 during the current year, the court was told. Human trafficking from Mohan Budhair, Kathmandu Post, Paliya www.ipcs.org/pdf_file/news_archive/sep_06_sanepal.pdf [accessed 29 May 2011] [page 22] Trafficking of Nepalese women and
children into A large number of women and
children are being trafficked into India from checkpoints west of Butwal, representatives of several Indian and Nepalese
non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and security officials stated during an
interaction on 'controlling cross-border human trafficking'. Sex and the City of Sarah Stuteville, The Common
Language Project, clpmag.org/article.php?article=Sex-and-the-City-of-Joy_034 [accessed 29 May 2011] ONE WOMAN’S STORY - At 14, Pandey
was married off to a man 20 years her senior who had designs on inheriting
her ailing father’s government job and a cut of his pension. When another
sister’s husband got the position instead, the abuse began. Families of Bharatpur push their
minor girls into prostitution Indo-Asian News Service IANS, July 2, 2006 [accessed 24 May 2011] The girls are mostly aged between
12 and 15, though some are as young as 10. They stand at the roadside along
with their fathers and brothers who fix the 'price' for them. “What can we do, we have to send our
daughters into this profession as there are no alternative means of
livelihood.” Indo-Asian News Service IANS, www.meetup.com/trafficking-43/messages/boards/thread/1983363?thread=1983363 [accessed 12 February 2011] 'Although Mumbai and Sexual Slavery; AIDS; [access information unavailable] Though it's been against the law
since 1982, as many as 5,000 families each year still offer daughters to a
deity or temple, sometimes before the girls reach puberty. Secret wedding
services take place at night, and child-brides, each month, are given in
marriage to the gods. It's usually the priests, or uncles, who take the devadasis' virginity -- once they've had their first
period. Then, at a price which starts at the equivalent of a few dollars,
they belong to upper-caste community members. Or whoever can pay, as they try
to compete with traditional sex workers. Often, the women do their duty to
the gods, and men, while living with their parents. The temple girls are
never allowed to marry. They are common property. The men -- for a night or
months or even years -- own them, body and soul. Slavery in Our Time Nicholas D. Kristof, The New
York Times, January 22, 2006 www.pekingduck.org/2006/01/nicholas-kristof-slavery-in-our-time/ [accessed 12 February 2011] Historians will look back in puzzlement
at the way our 21st century world tolerates the slavery of more than a
million children in brothels around the world. India alone may have half a
million children in its brothels, more than any other country in the world.
Visit the brothel district in almost any city in India, and you can meet
14-year-old girls who have been kidnapped off the street, or drugged, or
offered jobs as maids, and then sold into a world that they often escape only
by dying of AIDS. Indo-Pak girls forced into prostitution Asian News International ANI, At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 29 May 2011] In a startling case of organised women trafficking that has come to light,
Pakistani and Indian girls aged between 11 and 13 are being smuggled to the Working Together - Fighting the sex-trafficking menace Prof. Donna M. Hughes, old.nationalreview.com/hughes/hughes200601260836.asp [accessed 29 May 2011] The Hitting Brothel Owners where it Hurts Nicholas D. Kristof, The New
York Times, ewalpole.tigblog.org/post/34483?setlangcookie=true [accessed 12 February 2011] Imagine what you would have done
if you'd been in Hasina Bibi's
sandals. She was a lonely 16-year-old
working in a garment factory in Bangladesh when an older employee began
mothering her. They grew close, and one day the older woman gave Hasina some cakes to eat.
Two days later, Hasina emerged from a
drug-induced stupor in India, sold to a brothel in faraway Gujarat. The
brothel's owner beat Hasina and threatened to
deform her face with acid if she tried to escape. She had to do whatever the
customers wanted, with or without condoms. Prostitution of Nepalese girls rampant in Indian brothel Kolkata, Nov 20, 2005 – Source:
news.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=167534&cat=India www.stopdemand.org/afawcs0112878/ID=146/newsdetails.html [accessed 12 February 2011] ''Young girls are trafficked from USAID Funds NGO in Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute, [accessed 19 September 2011] In May, Restore International, an
anti-trafficking non-governmental organization (NGO) in Teen escapes sex trade The Telegraph, Krishnagar,
August 10, 2005 www.telegraphindia.com/1050810/asp/bengal/story_5096435.asp [accessed 12 February 2011] Tasmina Khatun
agreed to elope with Muku Mondal,
a man she loved, not knowing the nightmare she was inviting. Police yesterday rescued the 15-year-old
girl from the Sunderbans when she was about to be
taken to Speaking out for the `nameless' S. Anil Radhakrishnan, The
Hindu, May 31, 2005 www.hindu.com/lf/2005/05/31/stories/2005053100690200.htm [accessed 12 February 2011] "Anamika"
(the nameless) is a documentary on trafficking of women and children from
Andhra Pradesh to various parts of the country. It narrates how young girls are deceived,
forced or coerced to enter the trade every year. Five Years After ECPAT: Fifth Report on
implementation of the Agenda for Action ECPAT International, November 2001 www.no-trafficking.org/content/web/05reading_rooms/five_years_after_stockholm.pdf [accessed 13 September 2011] [B]
COUNTRY UPDATES – People's Daily Online english.people.com.cn/200112/14/print20011214_86677.html [accessed 29 May 2011] Child Prostitution in Nepal/India Plan-UK At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 29 May 2011] Every year, thousands of Nepalese girls,
some as young as 11 are sent to or procured for brothels in the big Indian
cities, like Child Prostitution In Sarika Misha,
People's www.pucl.org/from-archives/Child/prostitution.htm [accessed 29 May 2011] V. CONDITIONS - For decades the most important
red light areas have been enjoying the police protection. The policemen
themselves go to the brothels for tea snacks and girls. They inform the
brothel keepers in advance about the raids which are scheduled to take place. The police, the brothel keeper,
and pimps share the major part of the earnings of the prostitutes and the
rest of it that percolates down to the prostitutes is a mere pittance. It is
alleged that the police and abet the running of the brothels. They accept the
hospitability, money and free use of the girls. The police helps
the brothel keeper even by bringing back the ones who have run away. In a
case where a girl named Geeta who was ten years old
was rescued by a hawker after many attempts was returned back to the brothel
keeper by the inspector himself on the same day. Arabian Sex Tourism Daniel Pipes, Front Page Magazine, October 7, 2005 www.danielpipes.org/3022/arabian-sex-tourism [accessed 24 May 2011] Sunita Krishnan, head of an anti
human-trafficking organization, Prajwala, makes the
only too-obvious point that girl children are not valued. "If a girl
child is sold or her life ruined, it is not a national loss, that's why this
is a non-issue, both for community and to society." Action against child prostitution in Maduraď Enfants Des Rues - Reper www.enfantsdesrues-reper.org/179-Action-against-child-prostitution-in-Madurai-India [accessed 29 May 2011] [click on The Local Context] Certain studies in Child Prostitution Figures Up in
Bhawana Negi,
Stolen Childhood, Oct 17 2005 www.stolenchildhood.net/entry/child-prostitution-surges-up-in-india/ [accessed 29 May 2011] Girls under 14 years of age
constitute 30 percent of 900,000 prostitutes in When Police Act As Pimps:
Glimpses Into Child Prostitution In Debabrata R., PMID: 12321933, [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE], U.S. National Library of
Medicine, National Institutes of Health, 1998 Mar-Apr;(105):27-31 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12321933?dopt=Abstract [accessed 29 May 2011] A random sample of 28 out of 86
brothels along the Cops Involved In Child
Prostitution Times News Network (The Times of [accessed 29 May 2011] Social activist Anson Thomas, who
has accompanied the police in at least 14 raids at brothels in Nagpada and D B Marg areas,
alleged that some constables and sub-inspectors are known for taking bribes
directly from minors. A Brief Report on Study on CSEC [DOC] Joseph Gathia, Child Rights and
the Media Asia Regional Meeting in Bangkok Thailand Organised
by The International Federation of Journalists IFJ with the support of the
European Commission At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 29 May 2011] STUDY IN
CHILD PROSTITUTION BY CCCL - The study revealed the policies of promoting tourism without being
sensitive to the local needs, is causing a phenomenal growth in child
prostitution. The study pointed out that the golden triangle of tourism on
Agra- Delhi Jaipur belt has spewed a flourishing
trade in child prostitution among Rajasthan’s
nomadic tribes-with middlemen coercing and luring girls as young as ten years
into sex business. Growing tourism is
major contributing factor to this phenomenon. Children and Women Trafficking
in Professor Yi Ki Ho, www.idea.org.np/Children%20&%20Women%20Trafficking.html [accessed 29 May 2011] It was 10 years ago.13-year-old
Mira of Nepal was offered a job as a domestic worker in The Goan Voice Newsletter. Issue
2004-21. Jun 03, 2004 www.goanvoice.org.uk/newsletter/2004/Jun/issue1/ [accessed 29 May 2011] [scroll down to GOA NEWS HEADLINES] 28 MAY. TIMES OF INDIA. HEADLINE - Goa fast becoming a hub of child prostitution. Excerpt: Once a hot tourist spot, Goa is now witnessing an alarming rise in sexual abuse of children in the 10-16 age group. According to social scientists, more than 10,000 paedophiles visit the coastal state every year and molest children. Young flesh in the trade Malvika Kaul,
Women's Feature Service WFS, indiatogether.org/2004/oct/hrt-traffic.htm [accessed 12 February 2011] Out of the 464 victims of CSE, almost
23 per cent started their lives in the brothels when they were less than 16.
Two per cent were aged between 13-15. According to the victims, both men and
women (in almost equal numbers) were involved in trafficking. Over 68 per
cent were lured by promises of jobs while 17 per cent were promised marriage.
Despite being in brothels for several years, almost 61 per cent had no
savings. - htcp All material used herein
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