MURALI KRISHNAN AND SARAH BERNING FOR DW.DE The arrest of an Indian MP’s wife for allegedly torturing her maid to death and a recent report on global slavery has shed light on the need to protect the vulnerable. The abuse and exploitation of domestic workers in India continues to rise...
AMBIKA PANDIT IN THE TIMES OF INDIA NEW DELHI: Around one lakh full-time domestic workers keep the city’s homes functional and there are many more part-time helps. However, lack of laws leaves these workers, mostly women and girls, at the mercy of employers and placement agencies. R S Chaurasia, chairperson...
SMRITI SINGH , TIMES OF INDIA NEW DELHI: As cases of maids being tortured continue tumbling out of the capital’s homes, the need for a law to enforce the human rights of domestic workers is being felt strongly. However, repeated moves to implement such a law have come a cropper....
DNA INDIA ‘Raju’ is the name with which the smiling young man introduces himself to girls and young women in impoverished villages before ensnaring them as victims of the flesh trade and bringing them to the brothels of Delhi. Who is this ‘Raju’ who Delhi Police have been tailing for...
TIMES OF INDIA NEW DELHI: Dressed in a bright blue salwar-kurta, she waved from the Ranchi-bound Rajdhani on Monday, smiling warmly and assuring that she will be back in the capital-but not as a trafficked domestic worker but as a schoolteacher. The 18-year-old Santhal girl, tortured by her employer in...
MAIL TODAY At 19, when most girls of her age would be busy getting admission to colleges to begin a new chapter in their lives, she was being raped day and night. Confined in a hellhole – a small cavity inside a wall in a nondescript part of the Capital’s...
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA Metropolitan Magistrate Gomati Manocha rejected the bail application of the accused, Dorothy, who had arranged the maid for 50-year-old Vandana Dhir, also an accused in the case. “The bail application of accused (Dorthy) is dismissed,” the court said, adding that it will give a detailed order...
AFP Sitting on a hospital bed with a thick bandage around her head, an Indian teenager recounts what she says was four months of horrific torture at the hands of her employer. “She would pull my hair out, violently hit me over the head… most of the times she got...
India has by far the largest number of people living as slaves. The U.S. ranks 134th, with an estimated 60,000 people in bondage. By Mark Magnier and Robyn Dixon in the Los Angeles Times October 17, 2013, 3:45 p.m. NEW DELHI — When Savita Debnath was 14, two unknown men...
Vishnu Sukumaran, New Delhi, Oct 12, 2013 in The Deccan Herald: Though police mount raids and catch culprits, it’s the activists who feed them information. Rescue operations to save trafficked girls and young women are usually planned by NGOs, who seek police’s help for gathering information and conducting raids. Police...
Vishnu Sukumaran, New Delhi, Oct 12, 2013 in Deccan Herald A 50-year-old woman, an executive with a multinational corporation has become the latest in a long list of people arrested for tormenting their domestic helps. A grievously injured 18-year-old girl was rescued from Vandana Dhir’s house in south Delhi’s Vasant...
PUBLISHED IN UCAN INDIA New Delhi: Four years ago, 15-year-old Kavita came to New Delhi from a small village in Jharkhand with dreams of a better life. Now, on a hospital bed suffering from stab wounds and dog bites, she hardly dreams of anything at all. Police rescued Kavita –...
AMBIKA PANDIT IN THE TIMES OF INDIA NEW DELHI: The torture of a help in upscale Vasant Kunj has highlighted the lack of a legal framework governing domestic work. While the demand for a national legislation gets louder, the Delhi government’s draft bill limited to placement agencies-put up for objections...
SUMI SUKANYA FROM THE TELEGRAPH New Delhi, Oct. 9: The brutally injured tribal maidservant from Sahebganj spent seven hours on a Delhi pavement as her hospital discharged her this morning without an explanation and readmitted her in the evening only after high-profile politicians intervened. Members of NGO Shaktivahini, part of...
PUBLISHED IN THE HINDU A month after 16-year old Phoolmani Nagesiya working as a domestic help in a restaurant owner’s house was found dead in her employer’s house, police in Ghaziabad and Lohardaga, where her family lives, have refused to register a First Information Report (FIR). Officials of National Commission...
INDIAN EXPRESS A Lohardaga police team has been unable to locate restaurateur Anil Ahuja and wife Sharda Ahuja, employers of 16-year-old Phoolmani Nagesia. Phoolmani, who had been working for the couple as a domestic help at their residence in Kaushambi, Ghaziabad, was found hanging on June 19. “We went to...
PUBLISHED IN THE TIMES OF INDIA NEW DELHI: A 50-year-old woman, arrested for allegedly assaulting and illegally confining a maid in her house here, was today denied bail by a Delhi court which said a legislation for regulating placement agencies through which domestic help is recruited is “much needed”. Metropolitan...
PUBLISHED IN THE TIMES OF INDIA NEW DELHI: Expressing serious concern over the rising “menace” of human trafficking in the country, a trial court has urged Delhi Police to make “sincere efforts” to crack its whip on perpetrators of this trade. The court made these observations while sentencing a woman...
PUBLISHED IN THE HINDU A young Bangladeshi woman, who was trafficked to the Capital and sold off to a pimp for Rs.40,000 for commercial sexual abuse, managed to escape from his clutches at Rohtak in Haryana on Friday. The 21-year-old woman, who had strained relations with her husband, was brought...
