PUBLISHED IN THE HINDU – BINDU SHAJAN PERAPPADAN Almost all the 3,500-odd sex workers confined to the 96 brothels in the Capital’s red-light area on Shraddhanand Marg – earlier referred to as G.B. Road – have a tale of exploitation and human rights abuses to narrate. The government and the...
THE TELEGRAPH UN report points to role of illegal agencies. Guwahati, July 7: Assam has earned the dubious distinction of being one of the eight Indian states accounting for the highest number of children being trafficked for employment as forced labourers or domestics. The United Nations Office on Drugs and...
THE TIMES OF INDIA RANCHI: A UN report on human trafficking, which was released to the media on Friday, gave a grim picture of Jharkhand where most of the 24 districts are stuck in the vicious circle. ‘India Country Assessment Report on Human Trafficking 2013’ – the first by the...
TIMES OF INDIA NEW DELHI: Blaming Delhi Police’s for failure to book brothel owners for repeated sexual exploitation of minor girls, the Delhi high court demanded details of the number of rescue operations carried out in the brothels in the last one-and-a-half years. A division bench of acting Chief Justice...
HINDUSTAN TIMES The Delhi High Court on Wednesday said inaction against brothel owners and failure to lodge FIR against them was the main reason why a large number of rescued minor girls are once again forced back into flesh trade. The court also asked the petitioner, human rights NGO Shakti...
THE HINDU A minor tribal Christian girl trafficked to Delhi from Jharkhand about a year ago and placed as a domestic help died under mysterious circumstances at her employer’s residence in neighbouring Ghaziabad about a fortnight ago. While the Jharkhand Police was not intimated about the incident, the victim’s body...
TIMES OF INDIA NEW DELHI: The recent report by United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has laid down several steps to check the trafficking menace in the capital. The recommendations talks about practices that can be put into place changes in the police force and the local administration....
TIMES OF INDIA NEW DELHI: Delhi is a market and also a transit point for trafficked women and children brought from Nepal, Bangladesh, northeast India, West Bengal, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, claims a new study by a United Nations agency. In its countrywide assessment report published on Friday, the...
THE HINDU A minor tribal Christian girl trafficked to Delhi from Jharkhand about a year ago and placed as a domestic help died under mysterious circumstances at her employer’s residence in neighbouring Ghaziabad about a fortnight ago. While the Jharkhand Police was not intimated about the incident, the victim’s body...
The Delhi High Court has ordered a police probe into large-scale trafficking of young girls in the Capital for flesh trade and the racket of brothel owners bringing back the rescued girls using fraudulent means. The court issued the order following a complaint by human rights NGO Shakti Vahini bringing...
PUBLISHED IN NDTV Reported by Tanima Biswas, Edited by Samira Shaikh | Updated: June 12, 2013 18:26 IST New Delhi: A 14-year-old girl from Jharkhand, who was rescued from a home in Delhi where she was kept locked-up by a couple while they were away on a vacation, is now enjoying...
THE HINDU The Haryana Government has decided to designate all courts of Sessions Judges and Additional Sessions Judges at each district, excluding Additional Sessions Judges (ad hoc) and Fast Track Courts, as Children’s Courts. This move is aimed at expediting the trial of offences against children and violations of child...
TIMES OF INDIA New Delhi: Abused and tortured by a doctor couple, who employed her in an upscale Dwarka society, a 13-year-old girl’s traumatic story of confinement and human rights violation had last April made the authorities sit up and take note of the growing violence against minor domestic helps....
THE HINDU A day after a minor domestic help was rescued from the house of a businessman in Sector 15 here, the Faridabad Police on Thursday registered a case under the Juvenile Justice Act in this connection. “We have registered a First Information Report (FIR) under Section 23 of the...
Three Indian brothers received the Vital Voices Global Leadership Award from U.S. Vice President Joe Biden in March (right). Ravi, Rishi and Nishi Kant, who started the nongovernmental organization Shakti Vahini to fight violence and injustice against women and children in 2001, won the “Solidarity Award” at an event at...
TIMES OF INDIA GURGAON/FARIDABAD: A minor girl, employed as domestic help in a household at Sector 15 in Faridabad, was rescued on Tuesday. The girl was allegedly tortured and kept in confinement by her employer. Customer is acne. Sometimes http://rxtabsonline24h.com/ for couple and stuff cialis discount Additionally-this. Fully m Bumble...
TIMES OF INDIA AMBIKA PANDIT NEW DELHI: When Seema (name changed) boarded the train to Kolkatta from New Delhi Railway Station she hoped this will be her last visit to the capital and the end of a 10-year long trauma that began in 2003. She was abducted along with her...
INDIAN EXPRESS NEW DELHI:Taking suo motu cognisance of media reports of trafficking and abuse of a girl rescued from a brothel in GB Road, the Delhi High Court bench of Chief Justice D Murugesan and Justice Jayant Nath issued notices to the Delhi government, Now product shade http://mellink.net.au/hd/nexium-generic-esomeprazole-trihydrate.php lip would....
HINDUSTAN TIMES In a letter written to the police commissioner, a girl rescued from the city’s red light area has recounted her traumatic experiences and demanded action against the traffickers who forced her into prostitution. Two girls were recently rescued from the city’s red light area but the police are...
BY DWIPAYAN GHOSH IN TIMES OF INDIA NEW DELHI: One of the two young women rescued from Delhi’s hellhole—the infamous GB Road on Friday—could never had never imagined her traffickers going such lengths to try and push her back into flesh trade. Two women, who appeared before the local court...
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