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Article #137: Human trafficking cries for global thought

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Women and child trafficking has emerged bonded labour. The interesting part of
as the third largest global trade after the independent probe into the issue has
arms and drugs with a whopping annual been that quite often, the brutality of
turnover of seven billion dollars, human local police has been prompting rural
rights activists say warning that poor women to join extremists, especially the
South Asian nations, especially India are outlawed Maoists in India. The NHRC have
fast emerging as the hub of this global been told about the atrocities on Dalit
ignominious trade. Poverty on the one (backward caste untouchables) women and
hand ensures smooth supplies and on the inhuman treatment of women and kids in
other, sexcapades of Europe, America and jails and reform centers, etc which have
Middle East nations run the huge demand since long forced them to flee homes and
side. There are however some small fall in the hands of unscrupulous
markets too for these trafficked humans! elements.
The global concern for terrorism, rising An NGO named Bhumika in its research has
aspirations for free-markets and human said that more than 20,000 women from 16
sympathy for the victims of furious districts of Bihar and West Bengal have
nature have sidetracked this global disappeared over the last ten years.
menace even as the trafficking trade These women are being lured by
picks up its grounds in over half of the anti-socials here for jobs and marriage
world. and then forced into flesh trade in
A number of non-government organizations metropolitan cities of India. Bhumika has
and human rights bodies are striving hard sought NHRC intervention.
and working with the help of the United The Bachpan Bachao Andolan, another NGO
Nations body for child, Unicef to protecting child abuse has complained
eradicate child and women trafficking that large numbers of children from the
from south Asia and especially India. The poor states like Bihar were smuggled to
Unicef itself has gory facts of the other states and forced to work as labor
global trade and trafficking of women and in hazardous industrial and mining works.
kids and even India's top human rights Many of them are sexually exploited.
body, National Human Rights Commission The government officials also admit that
(NHRC) is besieged with the problem. the complaints of the activists are
Unicef figures say that around 7000 genuine but maintain that government
female child are trafficked from Nepal to agencies have little resources to fight
India every year and most of them land in the menace. "Trafficking of women and
flesh trade. Around 200,000 Bangladeshi kids along the Indo-Nepal and
women have been trafficked into Pakistan Indo-Bangladesh borders remains largely
via India in the last seven years to be unabated. The government is making
pushed in jobs of inhuman categories, efforts for destitute women and taking
Unicef figures say. help with Border Security Forces, NGOs
Action Against Trafficking and Sexual and Unicef to curb the trafficking of
Exploitation of Children, an Indian women", a senior government official
organization against child exploitation said.
says children from India are being The northern parts of the state of Bihar
illegally trafficked to Europe, Americas having common boundary with Nepal and a
and Middle-east countries in huge corridor with Bangladesh also happen to
numbers. An average of 50,000 children be acute poverty zone owing to annual
are trafficked even to a developed floods that kills hundreds and leaves no
country like United States of America scope for farming. Poverty forces the
every year, the forum maintains. women folks into flesh trade. Girls from
Rights activists maintain that criminal flood affected parts and tribal areas of
syndicates are involved in the female southern parts are also being sold by
child and women's trafficking from pimps into flesh trade. Some NGOs also
various states of India and this is a raised the issue of women being lured
major challenge for the local police. The into extremist cadres as a reaction to
agents of these criminal gangs often their human rights violation. A member of
strike in the flood or drought affected the National Women Commission, has
parts of India where they offer jobs and recently raised this issue of growing
good life to poverty-stricken people. The numbers of rural women joining the
poor and starved parents of young girls Maoists (left wing extremists) because of
are also lured that their daughters would the torture by police force.
get married to good people. Some agents Interestingly, the figures do not include
even offer themselves as grooms in those women who are part of the sexual
disguise, activists said. exploitation racket inside India. There
In most cases the trafficked children and have been media stories over how poor
women are deported to major Indian cities girls from states like Bihar are lured
and from they land in foreign lands into false marriages and then sold out to
either in Europe or middle-east the brothels. The local police being too
countries. The rights activists emphasize much engrossed with routine law and order
on the need for special police patrolling crisis of murder loots and kidnappings
in India's border areas close to have seldom viewed the trafficking as a
Bangladesh and Nepal fearing most serious crime in their areas. More than
trafficking takes place from there. often, the local police have the tendency
The eastern Indian states of Bihar, Uttar to brush it off branding the women as
Pradesh and West Nengal along Nepal and "characterless" or show the case as that
Bangladesh borders have emerged as the of elopement, giving it an angle of love
hub of large-scale smuggling of women and entanglement.
kids, forcing them in flesh trade and






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