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...

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...

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...

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...

PUBLISHED IN THE HINDU A 16-year-old girl, a native of West Bengal, was rescued from Sector 47 here on Saturday in a joint operation by the local police, the West Bengal Police, and anti-trafficking organisation Shakti Vahini. The rescue team laid a trap and arrested accused Arvind after a day-long...

Sunday, 31 August 2014 | Saugar Sengupta | Kolkata | in Sunday Pioneer Life changed for Rakhi (name changed) when she was barely one. Her father sold her off to a Bongaon household across the border when she could barely walk. It was in 1996. Md Ghira a hobo (migratory...

BY RASHMI DROLIA IN TIMES OF INDIA RAIPUR: More than 100 police inspectors of 27 districts of state attended a training programme for sensitization on human trafficking organized by state police in collaboration with Shakti Vahini, a Delhi-based NGO. Chhattisgarh’s tribal district being a major hub of human trafficking and...

PUBLISHED IN THE TELEGRAPH Aug. 26: A Delhi-based NGO is organising programmes across schools in north Bengal in collaboration with district administrations to sensitise adolescents to human trafficking which is rampant in the region, especially in the tea garden belt. Shakti Vahini has already covered 300 government schools in the...

BY SAURAV ROY IN THE HINDUSTAN TIMES Parents of the 14-year-old girl from a Jharkhand village who was trafficked, raped in Delhi and dumped in Gurgaon said she went to school about a month ago and did not return. Her parents said they did not approach the police at that...

BY SAURAV ROY IN THE HINDUSTAN TIMES Trafficking gangs hang around schools to lure girls with sweets and gifts to the national capital. This shocking revelation has been made by several girls who had gone missing and had been rescued by the Jharkhand police from Delhi recently. A 14 year-old...

PUBLISHED IN THE TIMES OF INDIA New Delhi: On the eve of India’s 68th Independence Day, a mother and daughter separated for almost one year took a step closer to reunion. The mother’s desperate search for her missing daughter brought to the capital from Jharkhand on the spurious promise of...

Statesman News Service/ Malda, 24 August Chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s dream project, ‘Kanyashree,’ has played a crucial role in curbing crimes like trafficking of women and children and child-marriage, the joint secretary of the women and child development and social welfare department, Sharmistha Das, claimed today. Using ‘Kanyashree’ as a...