Priya was 15 when a relative in Bangladesh tricked her with the promise of a dream job as a singer, drugged her, and trafficked her across the border into the sex trade in India. After several failed attempts to escape the brothel in the eastern state of West Bengal whereContinue Reading
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Matters India reporter Sonada, Darjeeling — Students of one of the most vulnerable regions in the country for victims of human trafficking got alert on women and child trafficking by one of the leading Non Government Organisations working in the filed for over a decade. The students of Salesian CollegeContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Jashpur: The official data say that as many as 330 women and 230 children go missing and are feared trafficked every day! About 65,000 women and children have been trafficked out of Chhattisgarh from 2001 – 2013 of which 40% still remain untraced. Chhattisgarh- predominantly aContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Manila: Human trafficking as a form of slavery is a key concern for the church, says a top Vatican functionary. “There has never been as many people enslaved as there is now. There is an estimated 45 million people in the world in traffic even asContinue Reading
Assam ranks as India’s second-highest trafficking zoneContinue Reading
Panaji: Very high figures of over 4,000 rescued trafficked women in Goa during 10 months of 2015 documented in reply to a question in the Parliament recently has puzzled NGOs working in rescue work as well as the Crime Branch of State police. The number of rescued trafficked women in GoaContinue Reading
Harold d’Souza from Vadodara in Gujarat has been named a member of the US Advisory Council on Human Trafficking, the White House said.Continue Reading
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Vatican City: The mayors of New York, San Francisco and New Orleans were among the signatories to a Vatican declaration on Tuesday (July 21) pledging action on climate change and human trafficking. The three were among more than 60 mayors invited to the Vatican to attend a two-day conference titledContinue Reading