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Hinduism is a major world religion practiced primarily in India and other parts of Southeast Asia. In the context of human trafficking, members of the Hindu community may be particularly vulnerable to trafficking due to factors such as poverty, social marginalization, and lack of education. Traffickers may exploit the cultural and religious practices of the Hindu community, such as the caste system, to control and exploit victims. Additionally, trafficking victims may be subjected to forced conversion or religious indoctrination as a means of further controlling them.
Scores of yoga practitioners hit the mat in the early hours of Saturday here to register their protest and oppose child and girl trafficking and create public awareness of the issue. Braving the morning chill that tends to linger till 8 a.m. the yoga practitioners performed various asanas and expressed their ire against trafficking. The…
By Srinivas Goli, Shreya Singh* The Assam government’s recent efforts towards addressing child marriages in the state appears to be doing more harm than good. Recent weeks have witnessed a brutal crackdown on culprits identified under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO, 2012) and Prevention of Child Marriages Act (PCMA, 2006) in…
Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Tuesday, Feb. 14. I’m Suhauna Hussain, a reporter on the L.A. Times business desk. I write about issues affecting workers. I have a heavy topic to cover today: Dalit caste discrimination. Formerly known as untouchables, Dalits fall at the bottom of a centuries-old South Asian…
SCR Secunderabad division’s Railway Protection Force (RPF) successfully rescued 10 child-trafficking victims and detained five traffickers. The operation was conducted in collaboration with the voluntary organisation ‘Bachpan Bachao’ and was based on intelligence generated from continuous data analysis by the RPF’s cyber cell. The RPF Anti-Human Trafficking Unit (AHTU) team conducted raids from Khammam to…
K. S. Manjunath, 51, an alleged human trafficker known by the name ‘Santro’ Ravi, was arrested after a chase on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, Gujarat, on Friday. He has been in the eye of a storm over his alleged role in police transfers and links to several ruling party politicians. Manjunath is an accused in a…
A consultation programme on Promotion of Youth Advocates for Children towards ending violence against children and child marriage was organised by the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication of Periyar University in association with the Social Welfare Department, UNICEF, and Thozhamai on Thursday. In his presidential address, Vice-Chancellor R. Jagannathan stated that promotion of women’s…
By P.K.Balachandran Colombo, January 3: A Pakistani film documenting the issue of forced religious conversion in the Sindh province of Pakistan has won an award at the Cannes World Film Festival in the Best Human Rights Category for the month of November 2022. Made by Jawad Sharif, it is based on real events involving four…
Four days after a 28-year-old woman complained to the police that she was duped into donating one of her kidneys on the promise of a government job for her husband, seven persons were booked o Saturday on charges of cheating, threatening life and organ trafficking, said police. Rinki Sorout, a resident of Palwal, has alleged…
Naveen Nara, a resident of Rohtak, was already married and changed his religion so he could marry the 16-year-old female wrestler without facing criminal action A wrestling coach from Haryana allegedly abducted a minor female wrestler from Madhya Pradesh and married her after changing his religion in Rohtak, as per the Madhya Pradesh police. Naveen…
As her classroom moved online during the pandemic, 16-year old Preeti (name changed) got a brand new mobile phone to carry on with her studies. With it came an introduction to social media and end-to-end chatting apps. The young girl from Alwar district of Rajasthan soon met Amit (name changed) on ShareChat and friendship blossomed,…
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