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You are picnicking with friends along a rapidly flowing river. Halfway through your meal, you see a young girl drowning - you jump in and pull her out. You don't pay attention to where she goes, and you sit back down to dry off and finish your picnic. Two minutes later, you see somebody else drowning. You jump in and save her, too. Five minutes later, there are ten people in the river, and you're frantically trying to save them. Then there are 40, then 80. In your desperation to save them, you never stop to understand where they are coming from, who is throwing them in, and where they go after you save them.

This is the story of how many NGOs react to social problems - pulling people out of a river without any plans for what should follow or how to address the source of the problem. In the field of anti-trafficking, rescue operations often violate the human rights of those being rescued; rehabilitation rarely provides the care and training necessary for women to heal and sustain livelihoods; and repatriation practices frequently return women to situations where they are just as vulnerable to the socio-economic factors that were originally responsible for their trafficking - but often with the additional stigma of having worked in the sex industry. Consequently, many girls and women, despite receiving services from NGOs, often end up in the same or worse conditions than before they were trafficked.


FAQ

What is "trafficking"?

Trafficking may refer to:

  • Human trafficking, the tricking or luring of people away from their homeland to work under exploitative conditions elsewhere
  • Drug trafficking, the cultivation, manufacture, distribution and sale of illegal drugs
  • Arms trafficking, the smuggling of contraband weapons or ammunition

How many women are trafficked in India?

India’s Dept of Women & Children estimated in 2009 that 3 million women are trafficked through India every year – 40% of whom are minors. The age range of girls trafficked is from as young as 5 years of age to 25 years.

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    Despite major advances in the response to the trafficking in persons, and the increase in convictions around the world, traffickers still act with massive impunity, according to a new global report launched by the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) on 13 February 2009

  • An awareness video about the effects of child sex trafficking.

  • You can help rescue young girls from human trafficking in India. "Red Light Rescue" is a non-profit organization based in Dallas that helping these young girls escape.

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    Born Into Brothels (Calcutta's Red Light Kids) is a 2004 American documentary film about the children of prostitutes in Sonagachi, Calcutta's red light district. The widely acclaimed film, written and directed by Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman, won a string of accolades including the Academy Award for Best Documentary in 2004.

  • Kranti goes beyond the reach of traditional NGOs to revolutionise the role of women in Indian society. 

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