BY ANWESHNA BANNERJEE IN EI SAMAY

SHAKTI VAHINI Shakti Vahini in collaboration with the Special Police Unit for Women and Children, Delhi organized a day long consultation on Child Legislations and Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2013 at the Conference Hall of YMCA on January 17, 2014.  The programme was attended by the police officers of the...

EI SAMAY KOLKATTA This is a story of two sisters Hasi and Khushi, who lived at Rajshahi, in Bangladesh. Their father had passed away, and mother was working in Muscat. So their grandparents were the only family that they had. Hasi had studied till class X, though Khushi’s education was...

    PUBLISHED IN EI SAMAY A car cuts through the lush, green paddy fields. Kids run behind it, laughing, shouting, cajoling. The car stops infront of a small hut. The clay oven is aflame in the courtyard. Rice is cooking. A woman is sitting behind it. She seems lost....

Published in the Pioneer Deprived, enslaved and tortured — young girls are being trafficked into Delhi by unscrupulous maid placement agencies on false promises of decent employment and salary. According to activists, labour trafficking is the most organised crime in India, sadly without a law to curb it. Deebashree Mohanty...

PUBLISHED IN EI SAMAY Just like cancer, the roots of this disease too have reached even the remotest areas. Like the deadly disease, human trafficking too has already ensnared almost the entire society. Men and women are involved in this and therefore legally it is termed as an organised crime....

EI SAMAY – ARTICLE 2 GET SET GO… It was named Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel Marg. If one stands on the main road during the daytime, one will see several commonplace shops lined along the side of the road, dealing in all kinds of metal scraps. At night however, the...

PUBLISHED IN THE HINDU Stations are a major hub of human trafficking Known to be major transit points for human trafficking, railway stations will soon get Child Protection Committees (CPCs), as per the standard operating procedure developed by the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR). The committees are...

BY PANKAJ SARMA  PUBLISHED IN THE TELEGRAPH Guwahati, Dec. 27: A mother of two who was sold off as a bride and a minor girl who was held captive by a man, both from Morigaon district of Assam, were rescued from Haryana in two separate raids this week. A police...

On 20, Dec 13, Shakti Vahini organised a stakeholders’ awareness meeting in Siliguri, West Bengal on anti human trafficking. 30 representatives from various government departments and NGOs, who are directly or indirectly related to combat the menace, participated in the meeting. Members of Child Welfare Committee, Child Protection Committee of...

PUBLISHED IN THE SUNDAY INDIAN EXPRESS VIEW E PRINT As one domestic help’s story roils two countries, DEEPU SEBASTIAN EDMOND meets the rescued Vasant Kunj girl who is now hoping to study again, her mother who can’t afford to bring a second daughter home, and the others like them streaming...

INDIAN EXPRESS After rescuing a 15-year-old girl, a team from the West Bengal Anti Human Trafficking Unit has busted a trafficking and prostitution racket being run between Bengal, Delhi and Meerut. Between Sunday and Tuesday, raids were conducted in Meerut and Delhi and four persons were arrested. Two women, including...

BY TRIPTI LAHIRI IN THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Police in India, who have opened a murder investigation in the death of a household maid in her mid-thirties whose bruised and burnt body was found last week at the home of a federal lawmaker, expect an official autopsy report on Tuesday,...

PUBLISHED IN THE BUSINESS STANDARD (IANS) Barkha (name changed) was just 12 when she came to Delhi from West Bengal to work as a domestic help, her only option to escape the life of grinding poverty back home. She started working as a maid at the home of a doctor...

PUBLISHED IN THE TELEGRAPH New Delhi, Nov. 7: Some 55,000 women and girls trafficked from Bengal are working as maids in Delhi, many of them “sold as bonded labourers” to wealthy households where they slog for ungodly hours without pay and are often tortured or sexually abused. More than half...

BY KELLY KISHLAYA – PUBLISHED IN THE TIMES OF INDIA RANCHI: Trafficking from Jharkhand has increased threefold in the past three years, show data released by the social welfare, women and children development department that has worked on the basis of rescued persons. As many as 441 people have been...

 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...

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...

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...