रवि कांत अध्यक्ष, शक्ति वाहिनी/अधिवक्ता, सुप्रीम कोर्ट PUBLISHED IN RASHTRIYA SAHARA – HASTKSHEP राजधानी नई दिल्ली में घरेलू बाल मजदूरों पर जारी अत्याचार को देखते हु ए प्लेसमेंट एजेंसियों के कार्य करने की पद्धतियों को रेगुलेट करने की आवश्यकता है क्योंकि इनकी सहभागिता घर के कामकाजों के लिए रखे गए...

ASHOK KUMAR IN THE HINDU Female foeticide is a major factor resulting in trafficking of women from across the country to Haryana for forced marriages and the situation has only been worsened by widespread unemployment and the low status accorded to women in the State, says the first-ever UN commissioned...

THE HINDU For three months, 18-year-old Geeta (name changed), who was kidnapped from her village in West Bengal and brought to the Capital, was confined to a small room in a brothel at G.B. Road and was repeatedly ‘raped’ by over a dozen men every day. Her trauma only ended...

DEVESH PANDEY IN THE  HINDU Why does the Delhi Police dither when it comes to taking action against those involved in trafficking and the commercial sexual exploitation of women and girls at the brothels in the heart of the city on Shraddhanand Marg? The police claim that they are caught...

PUBLISHED IN THE HINDU Right outside the Kamla Market police post on Shraddhanand Marg is a board which displays photographs of women who are missing. They are mostly young girls for whom the police of various States have ostensibly been searching. The road, infamous as the red light area of...

PUBLISHED IN THE HINDU – BINDU SHAJAN PERAPPADAN Almost all the 3,500-odd sex workers confined to the 96 brothels in the Capital’s red-light area on Shraddhanand Marg – earlier referred to as G.B. Road – have a tale of exploitation and human rights abuses to narrate. The government and the...

THE TELEGRAPH UN report points to role of illegal agencies. Guwahati, July 7: Assam has earned the dubious distinction of being one of the eight Indian states accounting for the highest number of children being trafficked for employment as forced labourers or domestics. The United Nations Office on Drugs and...

THE TIMES OF INDIA RANCHI: A UN report on human trafficking, which was released to the media on Friday, gave a grim picture of Jharkhand where most of the 24 districts are stuck in the vicious circle. ‘India Country Assessment Report on Human Trafficking 2013’ – the first by the...

TIMES OF INDIA NEW DELHI: Blaming Delhi Police’s for failure to book brothel owners for repeated sexual exploitation of minor girls, the Delhi high court demanded details of the number of rescue operations carried out in the brothels in the last one-and-a-half years. A division bench of acting Chief Justice...

THE HINDU A minor tribal Christian girl trafficked to Delhi from Jharkhand about a year ago and placed as a domestic help died under mysterious circumstances at her employer’s residence in neighbouring Ghaziabad about a fortnight ago. While the Jharkhand Police was not intimated about the incident, the victim’s body...

TIMES OF INDIA NEW DELHI: Delhi is a market and also a transit point for trafficked women and children brought from Nepal, Bangladesh, northeast India, West Bengal, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, claims a new study by a United Nations agency. In its countrywide assessment report published on Friday, the...

THE HINDU A day after a minor domestic help was rescued from the house of a businessman in Sector 15 here, the Faridabad Police on Thursday registered a case under the Juvenile Justice Act in this connection. “We have registered a First Information Report (FIR) under Section 23 of the...

HINDUSTAN TIMES In a letter written to the police commissioner, a girl rescued from the city’s red light area has recounted her traumatic experiences and demanded action against the traffickers who forced her into prostitution. Two girls were recently rescued from the city’s red light area but the police are...

The Tribune New Delhi, May 2 A nursing home owner and his woman accomplice were apprehended yesterday when they allegedly sold a two-month-old girl to a decoy customer of the police in East Jyoti Nagar locality, north-east Delhi.The accused are identified as Sumit Sharma (28), a resident of GTB Enclave...

THE HINDU The owner of a nursing home and his woman accomplice were arrested by the Delhi Police Crime Branch for alleged involvement in an organised human trafficking racket after a two-month-old baby girl, who was being sold for Rs.3 lakh, was rescued from East Jyoti Nagar here on Wednesday....

INDIAN EXPRESS A minor girl of West Bengal who was allegedly forced into sexual exploitation was rescued by a team of West Bengal police officials and the members of the non-governmental organisation (NGO), Shakti Vahini, from Morni village here Wenesday evening. However the members of the NGO alleged that they...

AMBIKA PANDIT IN THE TIMES OF INDIA NEW DELHI: The death of two girls allegedly trafficked from Jharkhand for domestic work in Delhi only underlines the harsh truth that there are no laws that govern domestic work. While the demand for a national legislation gets louder, the fact remains that...

PRAMOD KUMAR SUMAN IN DAINIK BHASKAR रांची/नई दिल्ली. झारखंड से 11 अप्रैल को बहला-फुसला कर दिल्ली लाई गई 10 वर्षीय ज्योति मरियम होरो की 19 अप्रैल को संदिग्ध परिस्थिति में मौत हो गई थी। शुक्रवार को यहां राष्ट्रीय राजधानी में अंतिम संस्कार के लिए दो गज जमीन मुहैया कराने से...

AMBIKA PANDIT IN THE TIMES OF INDIA NEW DELHI: Holding the decomposing body of his 10-year-old daughter, Naveen Horo waited all Friday afternoon at the St Thomas Christian Cemetery in Tughlaqabad, hoping against hope that his daughter’s body would finally be given a decent burial. But here too he met...

PUBLISHED IN THE HINDU Unable to arrange for a priest from his sect to perform the last rites before burial, Naveen Horo — father of the 10-year-old Jharkhand girl, Jyoti, who disappeared on April 11 from her home along with a friend and died on April 16 at a city...