North 24 Parganas

West Bengal: Adolescent Girls' Disappearances Raise Concerns of Human Trafficking
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West Bengal: Adolescent Girls' Disappearances Raise Concerns of Human Trafficking

ByEyes on Trafficking News

Kolkata: Niloufar Khatun*, 16 (name changed), and Asma Khatun*, 15 (name changed), were two cousins residing in a village at Minakha of North Parganas district, some 80 kilometres away from the state capital of Kolkata. Last month, on March 21, they had gone to the local market to purchase the cosmetics they needed for the…

Ground report: How cyclones Amphan & Yaas pushed girls from the Sundarbans into trafficking
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Ground report: How cyclones Amphan & Yaas pushed girls from the Sundarbans into trafficking

ByEyes on Trafficking News

Cyclone-battered South 24 Paraganas is one of country’s poorest districts & hunting ground for traffickers It has been a stormy life for cousins Tisha and Salima. Growing up in the Sundarbans delta in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district, they remember cyclones as major milestones in their lives. Still in their teens, they have endured…

Agonising film SOLD shows the brutality of child trafficking | Daily Mail Online
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Agonising film SOLD shows the brutality of child trafficking | Daily Mail Online

ByEyes on Trafficking News

‘Trafficking children for sex is an abomination of humanity’: Gillian Anderson admits being shocked at the scale of the slave trade in India Up to 46 million people globally live as slaves, generating an estimated $150 billion in illegal profits a year An estimated 1.8 million children are sold into the sex trade every year …