21st Century Slavery
Newspaper Clip: “Missing girls should be registered as trafficked” (The Times of Hyderabad, Monday June 5, 2006)
“New Delhi: Concerned over several trafficking cases not being reported, the ministry of women and child welfare (WCD) has asked all the states to register 'missing' girls as trafficked. The issue was discussed in the central advisory committee meeting held last week and instructions were given to state police and administrations.
“With India topping the list of most number of HIV / Aids [sic] infected people, it [is]not a surprise that [the] flesh trade has been thriving in this country.
“But for those who read and hear about the rampant trade at Delhi's G B Road, Kolkata's Sonagachi and Mumbai's Kamathipura, this will come as a shocker: just 46 cases of women were reported to have been trafficked in 2003. This number increased by 93.5% to 89 in 2004 with Jharkhand reporting 36 cases and Bihar 35, according to the National Crime Records Bureau.
“According to WCD ministry officials, young girls are being kidnapped or coerced and taken from Nepal and Bangladesh and states like Andhra Pradsh and Tamil Nadu to northern states like Delhi, Punhab and Haryana. A report commissioned by the National Commission for Women in March 2006 on human rights violations of commercial sex works (CSW) concluded that 29.5% (the maximum number) of the survivors and victims of trafficking came from Andhra, followed by Karnakata (15%), West Bengal (12.5%) and TN (12.3%).
“ 'The number of girls being trafficked is growing at an alarming rate and the average age is dropping as well. The clients now prefer girls as young as 10-12 years,' an official said. This is, however, not reflected in the national figures as either police officials are not sensitised to this problem or prefer to cover up cases. By registering the cases as trafficking, ministry officials hope to succeed in better enforcement. 'Right now there is no inter-state coordination. After the state police conducts a raid and registers and FIR, the victims have to come for hearings for which they neither have the interest nor the money,' the official added.”
Increasingly younger women and girls being sold, duped, and stolen into sex slavery is not a problem that is unique to India.
Newspaper Clip: “Missing girls should be registered as trafficked” (The Times of Hyderabad, Monday June 5, 2006)
“New Delhi: Concerned over several trafficking cases not being reported, the ministry of women and child welfare (WCD) has asked all the states to register 'missing' girls as trafficked. The issue was discussed in the central advisory committee meeting held last week and instructions were given to state police and administrations.
“With India topping the list of most number of HIV / Aids [sic] infected people, it [is]not a surprise that [the] flesh trade has been thriving in this country.
“But for those who read and hear about the rampant trade at Delhi's G B Road, Kolkata's Sonagachi and Mumbai's Kamathipura, this will come as a shocker: just 46 cases of women were reported to have been trafficked in 2003. This number increased by 93.5% to 89 in 2004 with Jharkhand reporting 36 cases and Bihar 35, according to the National Crime Records Bureau.
“According to WCD ministry officials, young girls are being kidnapped or coerced and taken from Nepal and Bangladesh and states like Andhra Pradsh and Tamil Nadu to northern states like Delhi, Punhab and Haryana. A report commissioned by the National Commission for Women in March 2006 on human rights violations of commercial sex works (CSW) concluded that 29.5% (the maximum number) of the survivors and victims of trafficking came from Andhra, followed by Karnakata (15%), West Bengal (12.5%) and TN (12.3%).
“ 'The number of girls being trafficked is growing at an alarming rate and the average age is dropping as well. The clients now prefer girls as young as 10-12 years,' an official said. This is, however, not reflected in the national figures as either police officials are not sensitised to this problem or prefer to cover up cases. By registering the cases as trafficking, ministry officials hope to succeed in better enforcement. 'Right now there is no inter-state coordination. After the state police conducts a raid and registers and FIR, the victims have to come for hearings for which they neither have the interest nor the money,' the official added.”
Increasingly younger women and girls being sold, duped, and stolen into sex slavery is not a problem that is unique to India.
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