PUBLISHED IN THE TIMES OF INDIA NEW DELHI: A human trafficker committed a blunder of calling a woman cop from Chhattisgarh Police camping with her team in the city after which his number was tracked and the wanted man arrested. The criminal had called to threaten the cop with dire...

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...

PUBLISHED IN THE HINDU–A 14-year-old girl from Jharkhand was rescued near MG Road metro station here on Sunday in a joint operation by the Gurgaon Police and Shakti Vahini. The police acted on a tip-off received from a well-wisher who found the girl wandering near the metro station. The minor...

PUBLISHED IN THE HINDUSTAN TIMES Ill-treating a domestic help will amount to trafficking, the home ministry’s latest directions to the police say. If the employer doesn’t give food or not allow the help to venture outside home, the action will be treat on a par with trafficking even if the...

TIMES OF INDIA NEW DELHI: A team from the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights(NCPCR) which had toured Bengal in view of the rising number of missing children in the state is busy preparing the final report which is expected to be tabled next week. The move comes in the midst of data...

MALLICA JOSHI IN THE HINDUSTAN TIMES Talk to residents who have hired an underage domestic help and you will soon see them clamouring to justify their actions. “At least she is getting three square meals here. She would have died in her village”, “We treat her very well. We give...

DEVESH PANDEY IN THE HINDU Alarming trend of some mysterious drug being administered to minor girls trafficked into the Capital An alarming trend of some mysterious drug being administered to minor girls trafficked into the Capital from West Bengal, primarily to be forced into prostitution, has raised serious concerns over...

MALLICA JOSHI IN THE HINDUSTAN TIMES Stuti (name changed) would wake up at 5 every day to sweep, wash and dust the entire house, cook breakfast and pack lunch for the family of five and then go and drop the kids to the bus stop. But she is not the...

Mallica Joshi in Hindustan Times Rupa Devi will never forget the cold January afternoon seven years ago when she came home to find her daughter missing. The 13-year-old had not returned home from school and no one had seen her. It was only a week later that she found that her...

TIMES OF INDIA GURGAON: Unlike other cities like Delhi where civil society manages the Child Welfare Committee (CWC), in Gurgaon it’s the administration that runs the show. This fact not only hampers the functioning of the committee, but also creates confusion between the NGOs engaged in child welfare on the...

PUBLISHED IN THE HINDU “Apart from nearly 18 hazardous trades and about 65 processes, other works involving children are exempted under Sections 8 to 11 of the Act” said Labour Department official. Most establishments from where child workers are being rescued are now being sealed as per a recent Delhi...

DWIPAYAN GHOSH IN THE TIMES OF INDIA NEW DELHI: The rescue of seven girls from West Bengal, after a raid on March 16 in various placement agencies in northwest Delhi and the subsequent rescue of several girls from four other states of India in May from the red-light areas of...

INDRANI BASU IN THE TIMES OF INDIA NEW DELHI: Anti-child labour laws and their strict implementation have not been able to contain the problem of child trafficking in the city. Children are still being trafficked from states like West Bengal, Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh and Assam to work in factories and...

PRERNA SODHI IN THE TIMES OF INDIA NEW DELHI: The teenage help who was rescued from a Dwarka apartment in March is now enrolled in a school in Jharkhand. She has received her wage arrears, besides support from the state. But hers is an exceptional story of rehabilitation. Experts say...

Pankaj Borthakur, Guwahati (Apr 1): It’s startling! A joint investigation by the Assam police and their Delhi counterpart has brought to light the involvement of as many as 36 Delhi-based placement agencies in trafficking Assam girls and children to Haryana, Punjab, Mumbai and several other metropolitan cities. After the submission...

PTI NEWS / OUTLOOK The functioning of Child Welfare Committee (CWC) has come under the scrutiny of a Delhi court which directed the city government to look into the allegation as to how the committee had released the minor girls, who were victims of human trafficking, to their relatives. The...

DWIPAYAN GHOSH IN THE TIMES OF INDIA      DECEMBER 17 2010 NEW DELHI: In a late-night operation which lasted over three hours on Wednesday against alleged human traffickers, a special team of the West Bengal CID and personnel from the crime branch of Delhi Police and west and central districts rescued...

MAIL TODAY Delhi is dangerous – not only for a woman returning alone from a night shift, as the euphemism goes – but more so for children. As many as 14 kids go missing in the Capital daily, which is an alarming eight per cent of the national total for...

Unsafe migration leads to Trafficking. Presently India has a large movement of rural people going to the urban areas. In this stream of migration many children and women are being trafficked for forced labour , child labour , forced marriages, sexual exploitation , bonded labour etc. Many cases of missing...

NDTV 24X7 The doctor-couple, accused of illegally confining and assaulting their teenage domestic help, have been remanded to two days police custody. They were arrested earlier in the day, after apparently being found by the police in Dwarka. They were tracked down by the police to a relative’s house where...