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When incidents of forced labour or sex trafficking hit the headlines, the law-enforcing machinery suddenly gets into a firefighting mode. Victims are rescued and success stories circulate. But the magnitude of human trafficking and its disastrous impact on people and society often go unnoticed. According to an UNDOC report, the most common forms of human…
Reality bites Why do parents worry about their teenaged daughters’ safety, much more than their sons? Well, a look at the latest findings of National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) might provide an answer. In Bihar, where Seema lives, there were 6,894 recorded cases of Crime against Children in 2021, and all the victims were girls. …
New Delhi: Marriage before a certain age is a crime in the eyes of the law. For this, the minimum age of marriage for boys and girls has been fixed. But in different parts of the country girls are married before a certain age. In many cases, girls are married as minors. What is the…
According to the Global Slavery Index 2018, 10 countries with the largest estimated absolute numbers of people in modern slavery include some of the world’s most populous were these 10 countries – India, China, Pakistan, North Korea, Nigeria, Iran, Indonesia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Russia, and the Philippines – account for 60 percent of…
Her journey from being a child labourer at a mica mine in Jharkhand to delivering a lecture on a global platform before UN leaders was not an easy one, but there is no stopping Kajal, who has resolved to make all efforts to end the menace. The 20-year-old woman’s determination and steadfastness is now taking…
MANISH GUPTA Ranchi, Sept 26: Jharkhand has the highest percentage of girls being married before they attain 18 years of age, as per the latest demographic survey brought out by the Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner, Ministry of Home Affairs. “The percentage of females who got effectively married before reaching 18 years…
(Trigger warning: The story describes incidents of abuse.) In 2013, Pallabi Ghosh received a phone call that a young girl was confined in a house in a posh colony in New Delhi and tortured. Pallabi, who was a part of anti-trafficking NGO Shakti Vahini at that time, ignored the call at first because she had…
© Provided by The Indian Express THE CONVICTION rate in human trafficking cases across the country continues to be low, according to the latest report of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). While police filed chargesheets in 84.7 per cent of the 2,189 cases registered under the Anti-Human Trafficking Units (AHTUs) across the country in…
Delhi registered a 73.5% increase in cases of human trafficking last year with most victims being pushed into forced labour and prostitution, data from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) shows. Over 509 victims were trafficked from different parts of the country to Delhi, police said, adding that they have managed to rescue and rehabilitate…
PTI New Delhi, July 1 Sunil worked at a Chennai bakery for 12 hours a day for an income so meagre that it did not meet even his own expenses and innocent indulgences. He is just 14. Sixteen-year-old Renu worked as a domestic help in a posh locality in Delhi, sacrificing her childhood. Separated by…
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