एक संवाददाता, ग्रेनो एक्सटेंशन- PUBLISHED IN NABHARAT TIMES दादरी व आसपास के क्षेत्र में बंगाल से तस्करी कर खरीद कर लाई जाने वाली लड़कियों के मामले में पश्चिम बंगाल पुलिस टीम ने दादरी पुलिस टीम के साथ मिलकर सोमवार रात को छापेमारी की। छापेमारी के दौरान पुलिस ने इस मामले...
PUBLISHED IN THE TIMES OF INDIA NEW DELHI: A 13-year-old school dropout from Jharkhand’s Maoist-hit Simdega district promised domestic work in Delhi was found at Rajouri Garden Metro station by police on Sunday after she ran away from her employer’s house unable to bear the mistreatment. Her story has again...
PUBLISHED IN THE TIMES OF INDIA NEW DELHI: The owner of a fake placement agency involved in human trafficking was arrested from her home in Shakurpur in northwest Delhi, a place considered the hub of such illegally-run, shady units in the capital. Gayatri (30), notorious trafficker Pannalal’s sister-in-law, was involved...
PUBLISHED IN THE TIMES OF INDIA NEW DELHI: Delhi Police crime branch has arrested a human trafficker, Pannalal Mahto, and his wife, who had been on the run since cops raided their house in north-west Delhi’s Shakurpur area and arrested Jharkhand ex-minister Yogender Saw. Mahto is accused of running several...
PUBLISHED IN THE TIMES OF INDIA NEW DELHI: A 19-year-old girl from Jharkhand, who was working as a domestic help at a businessman’s house in east Delhi’s Vivek Vihar area, has alleged that she was beaten up and raped by her employer’s nephew after which she became pregnant. A case...
NITA BHALLA IN THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION The new head of India’s National Commission for Women (NCW) has sparked debate by comments supporting the legalisation of prostitution in the country, with some anti-trafficking groups claiming it would lead to further exploitation of women. Lalitha Kumaramangalam, who was appointed as the NCW’s...
PUBLISHED IN THE HINDU No happy faces. No innocence. Instead, millions of children out-of-school, and working to make ends meet is what we witness. This, despite laws prohibiting the employment of children. The Nobel Peace Prize for child rights offers hope. Ray of hope Forget, for a moment, the raucous...
BY RASHMI DROLIA IN THE TIMES OF INDIA RAIPUR : Supreme Court summons to Chhattisgarh chief secretary Vivek Dhand and director general of Police AN Upadhyaya to appear in person on October 30, has once again brought to focus the alarming problem of human trafficking of women and children particularly...
PUBLISHED IN THE HINDU A heavily skewed sex ratio in Uttar Pradesh is resulting in trafficking and ‘forced marriages’ of many girls from eastern India. The girls are lured by ‘so-called lovers’ and sold to ‘clients or would-be husbands’ at a premium price. The girls are often used as ‘sex...
SHAKTI VAHINI PRESS RELEASE Tribal Assam Girl sold for Rs.50000 to a Haryana Man After 13 years of repeated assault, Majoni (name changed) a resident of Udalguri district of Assam succeeded in escaping from the clutches of traffickers who kept her in confinement in Rohtak district of Haryana. She flew...
A National Media Consultation on Anti Human Trafficking and Violence against Women was organized in the Indian Habitat Centre, New Delhi by Shakti Vahini on January 23, 2014. the programme was supported by Vital Voices Global Partnership. Altogether 60 participants including journalists from Delhi, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and West Bengal,...
NAVBHARAT TIMES दिल्ली में बच्चों के लापता होने के मामले लगातार बढ़ रहे हैं। एक एनजीओ की स्टडी में सामने आया है कि सितंबर में ही बच्चों के लापता होने के मामले करीब 30 पर्सेंट तक बढ़े हैं। एनजीओ की स्टडी में सामने आया है कि सितंबर 2014 में 213...
Seema Sharma Tribune News Service Dehradun April 19 It is quite disheartening that the state police has no knowledge of the existence of Childline units and funds in each district of the state. In wake of children missing from the state, the police is required to keep in touch with...
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 where she was produced...
NEW DELHI: The tribal girl who was found hanging from a grille at her employer’s house in Faridabad five days ago was a schoolgoing teenager at a village in Uttar Dinajpur, West Bengal till about seven months ago. Her mother has alleged that she was not more than 13 years...
PUBLISHED IN THE TELEGRAPH BY MOHUA DAS What is human trafficking? The United Nations Trafficking Protocol describes human trafficking or “Trafficking in persons” as “the recruitment, transport, transfer, harbouring or receipt of a person by such means as threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction,...
Guwahati Telegraph By Pankaj Sarma Sept. 9: Almost three years after she was rescued from Haryana, a 20-year-old victim of human trafficking from Assam is still awaiting assistance from the state government for her rehabilitation. Rekha (name changed), who hails from Hajo in Kamrup district, is now struggling for a...
PUBLISHED IN THE HINDU- BY SHIV SAHAY SINGH The Committee in its order directed that statements of the girls be recorded under Section 164 of the CrPC on their return to the State. The rescue of three teenage girls in Delhi has once again brought to the fore the problem...
PUBLISHED IN THE MINT : By Ashwaq Masoodi Siliguri: It usually starts with a missed call. When the call is returned, the person at the other end of the phone compliments the caller on, say, her voice. Unlike a normal relationship, these “phone relationships” in poor villages of North Bengal...
