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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, Click [here]
to connect. The URL is not shown
because of its length [accessed 21 April 2012] '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 [accessed 21 April 2012] ''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
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