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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery Republic of India [ Country-by-Country
Reports ] The Republic of India [map]
is the second most populous country in the world, stretching from the Arabian
Sea (W) to the Bay of Bengal (E), bordering Pakistan (W); China, Nepal, and
Bhutan (N); Bangladesh (NE); and Myanmar (E).
India is a source, destination, and transit country for
men, women, and children trafficked for the purposes of forced labor and
commercial sexual exploitation. India's trafficking in persons problem is
estimated to be in the millions. The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) estimates
that 90 percent of India's sex trafficking is internal. Women and girls are
trafficked internally for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and
forced marriage. Children are subject to involuntary servitude as factory
workers, domestic servants, beggars, and agriculture workers. Men, women, and
children are held in debt bondage and face involuntary servitude working in
brick kilns, rice mills, agriculture, and embroidery factories. India is also
a destination for women and girls from Nepal and Bangladesh trafficked for
the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation. Bangladeshi women reportedly
are trafficked through India for sexual exploitation in Pakistan. Although
Indians migrate willingly to the Gulf for work as domestic servants and
low-skilled laborers, some later find themselves in situations of involuntary
servitude, including extended working hours, non-payment of wages,
restrictions on movement by withholding of passports or confinement to the
workplace, and physical or sexual abuse. Bangladeshi and Nepali men and women
are trafficked through India for involuntary servitude in the Middle East. - U.S. State Dept Trafficking in
Persons Report, June, 2007 [full country report] |
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Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS – Within the country, women from economically depressed areas often moved to cities seeking greater economic opportunities, and once there they were often forced by traffickers into prostitution. In many cases, family members sold young girls into prostitution. Extreme poverty, combined with the low social status of women, often resulted in parents handing over their children to strangers for what they believed was employment or marriage. In some instances, parents received payments or the promise that their children would send wages back home. According to the Boys, often as young as age four were trafficked to the
Middle East or the Persian Gulf as jockeys in camel races, and many boys
ended up as beggars in Saudi Arabia during Hajj (pilgrimage). The majority of
such children worked with the knowledge of their parents, who received $200
(Rs. 9,300) for their child's labor. Many children were kidnapped for forced
labor, with kidnappers earning approximately $150 (Rs. seven thousand) per
month from the labor of each child. The child's names were usually added to
the passport of a Bangladeshi or female citizen who already had a visa for
the Gulf. Girls and women were trafficked to the Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) - 2004 [74] The Committee welcomes the
ratification of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)
Convention on Preventing and Combating Trafficking in Women and Children for
Prostitution; the adoption of a plan of action to combat trafficking and
commercial sexual exploitation of women and children; the initiative to
undertake a study, inter alia, to collect data on the number of children and
women who become victims of sexual exploitation and trafficking; and the
Pilot Projects to Combat Trafficking of Children for Commercial Sexual
Exploitation in Destination and Source Areas, but remains concerned that the
Immoral Traffic Prevention Act, 1986 does not define trafficking and limits
its scope to sexual exploitation. In addition, 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. Women emerge
as primary victims in trafficking Porous borders with economically poorer Bangladesh
and Nepal (from where none need visa to visit India) aggravate the problem of
cross-border trafficking. Bangladesh remained a source country for women and
children for a quite a long time, traffickers target their preys in the
poverty stricken rural areas. On the
other hand, Nepal is identified as a source country in the region. Fair
looking Nepali young women are the primary victims of the trafficking, though
new trend emerges with attraction for boys too. Unconfirmed statistics reveal
that in average 12,000 Nepali women with minors are trafficked every year for
sexual exploitation in outer countries. Most of the trafficked women from
Nepal were later found infected with HIV/AIDS and also tuberculosis. 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 25
arrested for human trafficking; 200 labourers rescued in Indian state At least 200 persons, including
women and children, were rescued from forced labour and 25 middlemen were
arrested in this regard, police said Friday. The rescued include 70 persons,
who were confined for three days in a forest in the jurisdiction of Turekela
police station area and 30 others, who were rescued from Titilagarh railway
station. One wishes the circumstances were
the same, but they seldom are. How does one equate a girl lured away from a village
in Meghalaya to a brothel in Delhi with the one pushed into beedi-binding by
her own parents just so there is enough money to feed all the mouths in the
family? Or a boy thrown into the laps of paedophiliac foreign tourists in Goa
with one who runs away from starvation and poverty at home, to be picked up
and employed by a brick-kiln owner who gives him a paltry daily wage and
lunch? Which arm of the State — women and child development, labour, police,
or home affairs if there is border-crossing — has failed to do its job in
each of these cases, and which is responsible for ensuring that the
trafficked person gets a livelihood and a respectable life? This is why trafficking is such a
tricky crime in developing countries with their many areas of darkness. In
Haryana, for instance, where it is acceptable to destroy female foetuses and
kill baby girls, young women are trafficked from Bengal and the Northeast and
forced into marriage to keep the family line going. How does one, in the
absence of a complaint from the girl or her family, initiate criminal
proceedings against those who claim the girl as their daughter-in-law? UN
seeks end to human trafficking GOALS - Every day in South Asia children and young women
are lured or taken from their homes with promises of a job, marriage or a
place in the entertainment industry.
Instead, they end up in the sex trade or as forced labour. India
is the hub of this trade, with organised crime syndicates trafficking women
and children both within the country and from across the border in Nepal or
Bangladesh. Sarpanch
held for human trafficking A country-made revolver was seized
from the sarpanch. On a tipoff, Patnagarh police, led by DSP (crime) N C
Dandsena, rescued the 40 labourers when they were being taken to a nearby
railway station to work in a brick kiln unit.
Police said the Sarpanch had given some money to the labourers in
advance and forced them to go to Hyderabad. They were to work in the brick
kiln for five months. Over
650 Indian trafficking victims rescued: UNODC 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. Human trafficking
has become a billion-dollar business: UN report The United Nations report also
said, that girls and women from West Bengal and Assam are being increasingly
trafficked to Punjab and Haryana, where they are sexually exploited until
they bear a male child. “(There is an) emerging pattern of
trafficking in girls from West Bengal and Assam to the more prosperous states
of Punjab and Haryana, where the gender gap is most acute…The woman is either
abandoned or passed onto another man after the birth of the male child,” the
study said. Human
trafficking helps spread HIV/AIDS in Asia: UN "Trafficking ... contributes
to the spread of HIV by significantly increasing the vulnerability of
trafficked persons to infection," said Caitlin Wiesen-Antin, HIV/AIDS
regional coordinator, Asia and Pacific, for the United Nations Development
Programme (UNDP). "Both human
trafficking and HIV greatly threaten human development and security." Major human trafficking routes run
between Nepal and India and
between Thailand and neighbors like Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar. Many of the
victims are young teenage girls who end up in prostitution. "The link between human trafficking
and HIV/AIDS has only been identified fairly recently," Wiesen-Antin
told the International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific. Police
rescue trafficking suspect from mob fury Police on Tuesday rescued a former
employee of a Bhubaneswar-based placement agency facing charges of
trafficking youths from this region to Malaysia from a frenzied mob in
Nikiraia village, 15 km from here. The villagers gave vent to their anger as
about four youths from the area reportedly enslaved in Malaysia since their
departure three months back. The mob badly beat up Sunil Das and
held him captive in the village. The irate mob pounced on him demanding the
refund of money that the Malaysia bound youths had paid to the placement
agency, police said. A Dalit youth from this part of
the state had undergone a two-month-long nightmarish ordeal in Malaysia and
escaped from the clutches of a well-knit human trafficking racket, bringing
to the fore the harrowing plight of a number of unemployed local youths still
stranded in Malaysia in their quest for greener pastures. Church
organizes struggle against human trafficking Many girls from the region are
also taken to Indian cities with promises of jobs, said Shimray, a native of
Manipur state. Shimray said many women
are taken from their homes after being promised jobs as domestic maids. The
educated ones are promised jobs in hotels and city firms, she added. In many
cases, those who entrap the women are members of their own families,
relatives or people close to them. In the period, the state recorded
3,718 missing female adults. Among them, 1,837 are still untraceable. During
the same period 4,259 girls went missing and only 1,918 were traced, Borah
said. Guard
Against Human Trafficking These marriage offers come for a
consideration ranging between Rs 5,000 and Rs 1 lakh,which are ascertained on
the basis of her beauty. In some situations, poor family members sell
children hoping that they will get a good life, job or education. However,
most of them end up in a brothel or simply they are forced to have sex with
clientele." Traffickers often use local people
(sub-agents) in a community or village to find young women and children, and
target families who are poor and vulnerable. "One of the major problems
with making arrests is that the victim's family does not complain as it does
not want to be used as witnesses against the agents or gangs involved in
trafficking," an officer said. 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 The pilgrim town of Puri is a
haven for child prostitution and rampant paedophilia. A recent study
conducted by the Institute of Socio Economic Development with support from
United Nations Development Fund for Women says that Puri is the heart of
child trafficking and accounts for over 43 percent of the cases. But the State Administration and
Police make no attempt to move because the holy town also happens to be a
tourist hotspot. But the real cause of concern lies
elsewhere. Domestic abuse continues unabated and even in the face of newer
and stringent legislation. Having children as domestic helps is a common
practice and they are the major victims of abuse. The sensational incident of child
torture by royals of Khariar in 2004 had amply revealed the magnitude of the
problem. The Crime Branch of Orissa Police arrested the former royal BP Singh
Deo and his wife Pushpalata Singh Deo who allegedly branded their 8-year-old
domestic help. The new and stringent legislation
has not been able to rein in the menace. Children are not only afraid of reporting
the abuse in fear of retribution, loss of livelihood also deters them to
disclose. UN GIFT - Global
Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking At the grass roots where the problem
is most acute, non-governmental organizations and other civil society groups
play a key role. They are the eyes and ears of the global community, and are
in the front line of the anti-trafficking movement, protecting victims and
helping the survivors. A number of private individuals, either through
foundations, the media or on their own initiative, are champions of the
anti-trafficking cause. Their work, either to raise global awareness or to
tackle local problems, is an inspiration to us all. If these various
initiatives at different levels and in different parts of the world could
unite, the chances of ending human trafficking would increase significantly. Therefore, the initiative aims to
harness and synergize these efforts, get others to join them, and set in
motion a broad-based global movement that will attract the political will and
resources needed to stop human trafficking. UNODC is the facilitator of the
process, channeling existing efforts into a cohesive framework rather than
re-inventing the wheel. It is time to join forces to end
human trafficking. This is a global problem that requires a global solution.
The Global Initiative creates a common banner under which we can all rally. How to change the
world - The role of the social entreprenuer 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. Panel
Draws Attention to Human Trafficking Thirty families living in a
village in the Tiruvallur district of India all have one thing in common:
They are now free after spending years in bonded labor at a nearby brick
kiln, said Gayatri Patel, who visited the village in 2006. "The people I met with told
me the owner of the brick kiln who had practically enslaved these people had
been arrested, but he was only sentenced to one night in prison," Patel
recently told a Georgetown audience. "The next morning when he left, he
just went back to his brick kiln, rounded up another 100 bonded laborers and
put them to work." NGO
worker involved in human trafficking arrested Arrest of an activist working for
a non-government organisation (NGO) for his alleged involvement in human
trafficking of 13 Nepalese women in Maharajganj district on Thursday has put
a question mark over the very genuineness of such agencies involved in the
eradication of the menace. This
worker, arrested along with a policeman, was working for the NGO Manav Sewa
Sansthan. March
denounces child trafficking LURED BY SWEETS - Kailash Satyarthi, chairman of
the Global March Against Child Labour, says South Asia is a major source,
destination and transit area for child trafficking of all forms. “Children are being taken for forced labour
and bonded labour," he says. "Children are being used for
child marriages. Child prostitution is of course there, then a lot of
children are taken as camel jockeys."
Thousands of children work in roadside food stalls Some children, he says, are
kidnapped and sold so their organs can be harvested for transplant
operations. One of the young marchers is a boy
of 13 who says he was lured from his village in Bihar by a man with sweets,
kidnapped, and taken to Punjab where he was made to work 12 hours a day,
every day. Human trafficking
is a $32 bn worldwide business Afsana Khatun, a 15-year-old
Muslim girl from Kolkata's Kidderpore area, has never met 13-year-old Rakesh
who works for 18 hours in a Punjab village like a slave after he was
trafficked from his native village in Bihar.
But on Sunday, Afsana will march with thousands of others from Kolkata
so that Rakesh and other boys and girls of his age who are trafficked every
day are not enslaved in a stone quarry or a red light area forever. 'The objective of this march is to
build a mass movement against child trafficking and forced labour. There is
no regional protocol to prohibit trafficking. We would march to make the
government answerable and people aware,' he said. Four
held for human trafficking; three girls rescued Three young women aged 18 to 20 years
were rescued from being trafficked and four persons arrested in this
connection here on Tuesday, police said. The girls belonging to
Vijayawada city were lured on the promise of jobs in Hyderabad. TRAFFICKING AND CHILD MARRIAGE - Due to a demographic imbalance
in Haryana (850 girls/1000 boys), men find it difficult to find a bride. The easy
way out has been through a network of touts who help men, young old and
widowed men to find wives from West Bengal, Assam and Bihar. An estimated
5000 girls were sold in the Mewat region of Haryana. Incidents of human trafficking are
on the rise in the country despite the presence of a number of organisations,
both in the private and government sectors, and the powerful media that makes
each incident of human trafficking public. The latest case of human
trafficking was revealed in Nepalgunj the other day when a suspected
trafficker was arrested while trying to traffic four boys and five girls
across the border. Thanks to Maiti Nepal, an NGO working for the well-being of
helpless girls, the police arrested the suspected trafficker. Though there is
no official record regarding the number of Nepalese girls trafficked to
Indian brothels, thousands of Nepalese girls are said to live lives of untold
misery in the Indian brothels. Four arrested for human trafficking1 CID Crime Branch sleuths on
Saturday said they’ve arrested four persons who are involved in trafficking
two girls allegedly for the purpose of trafficking. On interrogation, police found
that the girls were brought from outside the state and were being supplied by
a couple to a middleman in Goa, who in turn sent girls to prospective
customers. 4 held for
human trafficking, inter-state racket busted Samir went the to urinal while the
announcement was being made but when he returned, both his daughter-in-law
and the man, identified as Ramesh, were missing, said police. During investigations, police
found that Ramesh, who stays in Usmanpur Pusta, northwest Delhi, had gone to
Roorkee in Uttaranchal and followed him. At Roorkee bus stop, Ramesh and one
Sandhya Devi were arrested while they were settling a deal of Rs 20,000 for
the victim, police said. Police raided Sandhya's house in Roorkee and rescued
a 15-year-old girl, who was kidnapped from Old Delhi Railway Station earlier. Pak
one of the key sources of women trafficking in world: UN report A UN report has described Pakistan
as the “one of the key sources of women trafficking” in the world. It said that India had also lately emerged
as a key destination and transit point for global trafficking of women and
girls. Bombay HC
Lambasts Police Inaction in Curbing Human Trafficking The court was hearing a petition
filed by a non-government organisation "Prerna" which has sought
reinvestigation into the case wherein nine girls, who had been rescued from a
brothel in 2002, had gone missing. 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 Nepal on rise Trafficking of Nepalese women and
children into India, especially from the western districts, has increased
significantly in recent days due to lax security at border checkpoints. 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'. Woman
held for human trafficking A middle-aged woman allegedly
engaged in trafficking of humans was caught at New Delhi railway station on
Monday after a woman she had sold to a brothel-owner on G.B. Road here eight
years ago identified her. The accused had come to the Capital to sell another
young woman from Latur in Maharashtra to flesh traders. Nodal
cell in Home Ministry to deal with human trafficking The centre has directed state
governments to deal with such crimes in a holistic manner and to evolve an
effective and comprehensive strategy encompassing rescue, relief and
rehabilitation of victims besides deterrent action against violators. Govt push
to drive against human trafficking A total of 8900 cases of
trafficking were registered in 2004-2005. 13,300 persons were arrested, 93%
of them women and minors. 85% of them were convicted, IPS officer P Nair, currently
on deputation to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), quotes
these figures to illustrate how the justice system is criminalising victims,
but not traffickers. Budhia Singh was sold as a baby by
his illiterate and impoverished mother. Now, aged five, he is India's most
improbable young sports star, famed for his astonishing feats of endurance
running. India
to fight human trafficking at grassroots Village heads across impoverished
rural India will be asked to help fight human trafficking by keeping a
register of people who leave in search of work. The United Nations Development Project
(UNDP) is also asking village chiefs to watch out for traffickers who lure
villagers with promises of well-paid jobs but force them into the sex trade. India
is transit hub for human trafficking The study said 72 percent of human trafficking is for commercial sex, 80.26 percent of trafficking of women takes place in Bihar - most of it happening during migration for labour - and 12.36 percent of the total trafficking is due to family traditions. Human
trafficking turning into organised crime in India "Trafficking can be disguised
as migration, commercial sex or marriage. But what begins as a voluntary
decision often ends up as trafficking as victims find themselves in
unfamiliar destinations, subjected to unexpected work," said E
Rajarethinam of GCT. Pointing out that trafficking is
deeply related to deprivation, Jill Shirey, a consultant at American Centre
for International Labour Solidarity (ACILS) said that people are "forced
into accepting unknown jobs due to lack of options." India
rejects U. S. criticism for inability to control human trafficking The Indian ministry statement said
India and the United States have an ongoing dialogue on the trafficking in persons,
and the annual report "certainly is not helpful to furthering our
dialogue." Rep. Christopher Smith, a
Republican author of the 2000 law that established the annual trafficking
reports, said in Washington that the Bush administration went too easy on
India by placing it on the watch list instead of among the dozen worst
offenders. Microsoft
Teams with CAP to Train Victims of Human Trafficking in IT Microsoft Corp. India Private
Limited, under its Project Jyoti program, has announced a grant of around Rs.
2.2 crore to CAP (Child and Police project), a Hyderabad-based NGO, to
provide IT skills training to victims of human trafficking as well as
vulnerable communities at risk of trafficking. Human
trafficking in the northeast fuelling HIV/AIDS We visited 25 relief camps of
internally displaced persons [IDPs] in Kokrajhar in Bodoland Territorial
Council, Assam [state]. Nearly 200,000 people are living in these camps
without proper food. Traffickers carry out recruitment drives in such relief
camps. They make false promises of jobs as domestic help in big cities. Bangladesh
busts human trafficking ring: 34 rescued The women and children, some as
young as five-years-old, were brought by the traffickers from four
neighbourhood districts with false promises of lucrative jobs in India. But they are mostly forced into
prostitution as they illegally enter India, said Adhikar, a local
non-government charity for children from poor families. Need to rid
Gujarat of human trafficking Last August, the city police had
raided several embroidery units in Rakhial and rescued 84 child labourers
from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. The boys, aged between seven and 17 years, had
come to Gujarat in search of employment. Subsequent raids by juvenile remand
home officials and cops on jewellery production units revealed that child
labourers from West Bengal and Orissa were working in sub-human conditions
for some money to send back home. 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 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 Middle East countries for being forced
into prostitution there. The girls, who are shown as aged between 20 and 22
on their passports, are brought to these countries on the pretext of getting
them attracting jobs. Hitting Brothel Owners where it Hurts - 24 January 2006 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. Caritas India Campaign against Hunger and Disease, 2005 Mona, (not her real name) a girl
from Jharkhand, aged 14 years, had been trafficked to Prostitution
of Nepalese girls rampant in Indian brothel ''Young girls are trafficked from US
accuses NGO of 'trafficking' COMMENT from Laurence Time: 2/28/2007, 4:12 PM - US government is getting tough
on the issue of trafficking of human beings. Indicating its seriousness on
the issue, the US government-funding agency USAID terminated funding to the
NGO Sampada Grameen Mahila Sanstha (SANGRAM) for reportedly supporting
brothel owners and obstructing the rescue of minor girls from red light
areas. Northeast
girls in metros forced into prostitution Gullible young girls from the
northeast are being forced into prostitution in the metropolises after being
lured by organized syndicates promising them glamorous careers and lucrative
jobs, a rights group has said. "The situation is extremely serious with
smart operators flooding the northeast hunting for good looking young girls
for modeling assignments or jobs in call centers with good salaries,"
said Hasina Kharbih, chairperson of Impulse NGO Network. "But in reality, many of these women
were pushed into the notorious world of prostitution." Slavery is not dead in Police
rescue 24 girls from red light area Police said the rescued girls had
been whisked away from various places in 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 Bangla
prostitution racket busted The minor girl, Mallika, hailing
from a poverty stricken family, was approached by a 'sympathetic-looking'
Bangladeshi woman, who offered to take the girl to Mumbai with the promise
that the family would see a change in their fortunes. At Apna Ghar, Mallika narrated her woeful
tale of being bought in from Speaking
out for the `nameless' "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. The
face that launched a thousand shares Thousands of Indians, especially
women and children, are trafficked everyday to some destination or the other
and are forced to lead lives of slavery. They survive in brothels, factories,
guesthouses, dance bars, farms and even in the homes of well-off Indians,
with no control over their bodies and lives. Women and children are also
being trafficked for illegal adoptions, organ transplants, the circus and the
entertainment industry. In the tender age of five or six
these children are made to work up to fifteen hours a day in stone quarries,
fields, picking rags on city streets or as domestic servants. They do not go
to school, and throughout their lifetime they possibly wouldn’t even have the
barest skills of literacy. Couple
Arrested For Human Trafficking Sunil Dayalkar alias Sanjay More
and wife Kushi alias Nishikant Biswas allegedly bought Asha (name changed)
from one Sanjay Dutt for Rs 65,000 and then forced her into prostitution. This
Will Force Us To Clean Up Our Act NGOs estimate that at least 7,000
girls are trafficked into 17,000
Nepal Women Forced Into Prostitution In India According to the study, the
investigators talked personally to the Nepali women in the brothels of The
Saving of Innocents - The Satya Interview with Ruchira Gupta An uncle or a family friend pays the parent something
like $30. There is the middleman in a packed city, the border guard who takes
a payoff, and the agent who takes the girls across the border to the people
who then transport them to Human
Trafficking Situation In India Grim "The Government of India has shown little progress in addressing anti-trafficking in persons concerns since May... In Mumbai, convictions for trafficking-related offences increased from three in 2003 to 11 thus far in 2004 but remain grossly unrepresentative in a city of over 18 million inhabitants." Freedom
House Country Report - Political Rights: 2 Civil Liberties: 3 Status: Free Human Rights Overview by Human
Rights Watch – Defending Human Rights Worldwide U.S. Library of Congress
- Country Study ARCHIVES 2004 Slavery
Today 2004 2004 2004 A Report on Debt Bondage, Carpet-Making, and Child Slavery
in 2004 12,000 Nepalese women & children trafficked every year
to 2004 Thousands of Nepalese girls procured for brothels in big
Indian cities like Bombay/Calcutta 2004 3 Indians held for human trafficking 2004 GOA STILL A HUB FOR PAEDOPHILES, SAY CHILDREN’S GROUPS –
10,000 visit every year 2004 Save Our Sisters (SOS) launched to combat trafficking and
sexual exploitation of children 2004 Freeing the Small Hands of the Silk Industry 2004 Recent
report finds that many children and women listing as 'missing' are in fact
trafficked 2003 Child
laborers speak out about the conditions they were forced to work in 2003 Combating trafficking of women and children
in Bangladesh, India, and Nepal [PDF] 2001 200,000 to 300,000 children in locked rooms are forced to weave on looms for food 2001 Debt bondage enslavement of Dalit and
indigenous communities in India [PDF] 2000 Child & adult labor in 1996 THE SMALL HANDS OF SLAVERY - Bonded Child Labor In 1995 Women and girls trafficked from 1. The linked
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