Sunday, June 10, 2018
2017 Trafficking in person Report Hero award from US Department of state
Sunday, September 10, 2017
Friday, September 08, 2017
Monday, July 31, 2017
Human trafficking biggest crime in the world
Human trafficking biggest crime in the world: Telangana State Director General of Police Anurag Sharma today observed that human trafficking was the biggest crime across the world.
Speaking on the occasion, DGP disclosed that 953 cases of human trafficking were filed after 2014 and saved 1,397 people from the trafficking.
He said the Police department was sparing no efforts to curb the human trafficking in Telangana State.
The CID Wing and several voluntary organizations organized an awareness program to Police officials at CESS located at Ameerpet here on Sunday marking ‘World Human Trafficking Eradication Day’.
He also advised officials to work with voluntary organizations, women and child welfare departments jointly.
Speaking on the occasion, DGP disclosed that 953 cases of human trafficking were filed after 2014 and saved 1,397 people from the trafficking.
He said the Police department was sparing no efforts to curb the human trafficking in Telangana State.
The CID Wing and several voluntary organizations organized an awareness program to Police officials at CESS located at Ameerpet here on Sunday marking ‘World Human Trafficking Eradication Day’.
He also advised officials to work with voluntary organizations, women and child welfare departments jointly.
Tuesday, August 16, 2016
Friday, June 10, 2016
Thursday, May 19, 2016
The new face of the trafficking victim
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-telangana/the-new-face-of-the-trafficking-victim/article8618569.ece
It’s 11.30 p.m. and the road stretch near the Nehru Zoological Park is dimly lit and relatively empty. A few minutes later, an autorickshaw stops on the road followed by a cab. Three women with their faces covered get out of the autorickshaw and get into the cab.
After driving down for half an hour, the cab stops in front of an apartment in Banjara Hills Road No.12, two women get down and briskly walk into the apartment. The cab then heads to an upscale hotel in Somajiguda where the third woman gets down.
What makes this journey different from the regular ones is that the women from the southern parts of the city are high-profile ‘female escorts’. “Whenever I get a call, I pick them up from the same place and drop them at different hotels and buildings in newer areas of the city. In the morning I ferry them back,” the cab driver, wishing to remain anonymous, said.
While the Government talks about safety and protection of women in the city, the escort agencies are having a free run aided by technology and secrecy provided by modern gizmos. “Strict monitoring on brokers engaged in facilitating contract marriages has put it on hold. But now organised syndicates are luring teenagers, young widows and divorcees into prostitution. Travel arrangements are being made for the ‘escorts’ by the brokers themselves,” Jameela Nishath, of Shaheen Women’s Resource and Welfare Association, an NGO working for empowerment of Muslim women, said.
According to Ms. Nishath, around 5,000 women and girls from southern areas of the city are now victims of human trafficking. “Localities where there is high poverty are their target. Unless issues relating to poverty and women empowerment are addressed, the problem will only grow. To compound the issue, there are very few job opportunities and these people are falling for easy money,” she felt.
S. Q. Masood, a social activist from Kalapather area, explains, “Poor migrant families settled in newer areas are being targetted. While some of the victims are offered junior artist roles in films, others are directly pushed into prostitution. In the end, brokers are making huge money while the victims end up getting exploited.”
On the other hand, the police said that they regularly catch brokers and brothel organisers.
“Till now we have raided around 20 brothels and arrested many brokers. The victims were also rescued,” Commissioner’s Task Force DCP B. Limba Reddy said.
Sunday, February 21, 2016
Wednesday, February 10, 2016
Telangana: Couple bought minor girl for just Rs 250, forced her to beg
In a gruesome incident a couple from Basheerabad mandal of RR district of Telangana bought a 13-year-old girl for just Rs 250 from Mumbai and forced her to beg in Hyderabad.
The 13 year old minor identified as Puja. According to the report, she had been begging for the last three months.
The report quotes Ranga Reddy SP Rema Rajeswari as saying the couple – V. Basamma and V. Ramulu – bought Puja in Mumbai while they were working there as labourers. Since she was an orphan, the girl didn’t know anything about her parents and was sold off by an unknown person.
According to Police the couple made her do household work then later started sending her out to beg. She used to finish the housework in the morning and then go to the Tandur bus stand where she would beg till evening. The girl gave her earnings to the couple save the bus fare to the bus stand.
On January 7, the police reportedly got a tip-off and rescued the girl. The report adds that the police have now registered a case against the couple for human trafficking and forced labour and have arrested Basamma’s father
http://www.siasat.com/news/telangana-couple-bought-13-year-old-girl-just-rs-250-forced-beg-914404/
Sunday, January 31, 2016
Friday, August 21, 2015
Saturday, June 20, 2015
Going undercover as a Sex worker article forwarded
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2015/06/magazine-undercover-sex-worker-human-trafficking-150610072623672.html
Thursday, June 04, 2015
Lost and found missing children web site launched by Government
http://www.businessinsider.com/r-india-launches-lost-and-found-website-to-find-missing-children-2015-6?IR=T
www.khoyapaya.gov.in
www.khoyapaya.gov.in
Wednesday, March 04, 2015
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Trafficked tribal girls forced to conceive, deliver babies for sale
http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/tribal-girls-forced-to-conceive-deliver-babies-for-sale/article1-1320239.aspx
From the time she was 13, Phulmani (name changed) was forced to act as a surrogate mother and deliver six children by human traffickers from Jharkhand, widely considered a hotbed of modern day slavery.
Phulmani, now 31, was made to breastfeed the children – all born in consecutive years in Delhi – for about six months before giving them to the agents who sold them off.
The resident of Patru village in Gumla district was rescued by rights activists and returned to Jharkhand last year. Her experiences have left her emotionally and physically scarred.
“They treated me like a money minting machine. My will never mattered to them, all they wanted was me to deliver babies for them," she said, avoiding eye contact.
Phulmani was lured to Delhi by an agent from her village with the promise of a job in the national capital. She worked as a domestic help in a posh locality in her first year in Delhi before the inhuman treatment began.
She has no idea who bought her babies or what became of them. But now she is seeking justice and has filed a complaint with the Child Welfare Committee (CWC) in Gumla.
Rights groups have complained for long that well organised rings have been trafficking girls and young women from Jharkhand. According to civil society groups, about 10,000 children are trafficked from Jharkhand every year to either work as domestic help or sex workers, but trafficking for forced surrogacy has never been heard of before.
The CWC in Gumla came across another case of trafficking for surrogacy from Lotwadugdugi village in Palkot block. The girl was trafficked to Delhi when she was just eight years old. Now 29, she returned to Jharkhand last year and alleged that she was forced to deliver at least 10 babies, said Alakh Singh, a member of the CWC.
Phulmani, now 31, was made to breastfeed the children – all born in consecutive years in Delhi – for about six months before giving them to the agents who sold them off.
The resident of Patru village in Gumla district was rescued by rights activists and returned to Jharkhand last year. Her experiences have left her emotionally and physically scarred.
“They treated me like a money minting machine. My will never mattered to them, all they wanted was me to deliver babies for them," she said, avoiding eye contact.
Phulmani was lured to Delhi by an agent from her village with the promise of a job in the national capital. She worked as a domestic help in a posh locality in her first year in Delhi before the inhuman treatment began.
She has no idea who bought her babies or what became of them. But now she is seeking justice and has filed a complaint with the Child Welfare Committee (CWC) in Gumla.
Rights groups have complained for long that well organised rings have been trafficking girls and young women from Jharkhand. According to civil society groups, about 10,000 children are trafficked from Jharkhand every year to either work as domestic help or sex workers, but trafficking for forced surrogacy has never been heard of before.
The CWC in Gumla came across another case of trafficking for surrogacy from Lotwadugdugi village in Palkot block. The girl was trafficked to Delhi when she was just eight years old. Now 29, she returned to Jharkhand last year and alleged that she was forced to deliver at least 10 babies, said Alakh Singh, a member of the CWC.
"It is not a regular pattern, but we have come across a few such cases in the past. It is a major concern if such practices are happening in the state," said additional director general of police (CID) SN Pradhan.
Like Phulmani, some more girls from Gumla and Lohardaga districts of Jharkhand were trafficked for conceiving children, local residents claimed. Some girls were even forced to conceive babies for sale in Jharkhand, they alleged.
Jagatram Mahato, an elderly man from Arahasa village in Lohardaga, said teenagers from his village had been lured to Delhi and some northern states for forced surrogacy.
"Some of them even gave birth to children in the village. Later, the agents came and took the babies," he said. While a few girls were paid a negligible amount for being surrogate mothers, a majority did not get even a penny, he said.
However, police said they could not act unless FIRs were filed about such cases. A majority of the girls did not bother to complain to the police, probably due to fear, villagers said.
The NGO Shakti Vahini says it has rescued more than 100 girls from Jharkhand in Delhi. Bachapan Bachao Andolan (BBA), the NGO run by Noble Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi, says it rescued almost 80,000 children across India, of whom 15% to 20% were from Jharkhand and Bihar
Like Phulmani, some more girls from Gumla and Lohardaga districts of Jharkhand were trafficked for conceiving children, local residents claimed. Some girls were even forced to conceive babies for sale in Jharkhand, they alleged.
Jagatram Mahato, an elderly man from Arahasa village in Lohardaga, said teenagers from his village had been lured to Delhi and some northern states for forced surrogacy.
"Some of them even gave birth to children in the village. Later, the agents came and took the babies," he said. While a few girls were paid a negligible amount for being surrogate mothers, a majority did not get even a penny, he said.
However, police said they could not act unless FIRs were filed about such cases. A majority of the girls did not bother to complain to the police, probably due to fear, villagers said.
The NGO Shakti Vahini says it has rescued more than 100 girls from Jharkhand in Delhi. Bachapan Bachao Andolan (BBA), the NGO run by Noble Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi, says it rescued almost 80,000 children across India, of whom 15% to 20% were from Jharkhand and Bihar
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