City gets its first survivor care centre for abused minor girls Mumbai The city now has its first Sanrakshan Kendra, or survivor care centre. The Shaskiya Mulinche Vishesh Punarvasan Kendra in Mankhurd will provide support to 30 minor girls who have survived human trafficking and sexual exploitation as well as been victims of sexual abuse. The shelter home is the first point of intake of the minor victim following rescue. It was established by the Women and Child Development Office, Mumbai Suburban, in partnership with the International Justice Mission (IJM), the non-governmental organisation that works with victims of trafficking and assists the police in raids and operations. More ... Survey reveals 90 percent parents rely on schools for info on child sexual abuse Parents of young children have poor knowledge about the law against child sexual abuse and most information that parents have about the crime is through programmes conducted by schools, revealed a recently survey. The survey by College of Home Science Nirmala Niketan states 82% mothers and 52% fathers defined child sexual abuse as molesting or harming a child in the form of physical, verbal, mental or sexual harassment/exploitation or torture. While 80% mothers and 88% fathers believed that child care providers including teachers, assistant teachers, staff employed at daycare centres, etc., to be the predators and 70% mothers and 86% fathers also believed that relatives could be the culprits in such cases. More ... Policy dive-All you need to know about Trafficking of Persons Bill, 2017 The government had listed the bill aimed at protecting trafficked persons, especially young girls and women, for introduction in the Lok Sabha in the just-concluded budget session. But continued disruptions, which virtually wiped out the second part of the session, prevented the Trafficking of Persons (Prevention, Protection and Rehabilitation) Bill, 2017 from being introduced. Here is all you need to know about the proposed law More ... Human trafficking racket busted by CBI in Punjab, five booked New Delhi: The CBI today busted a human trafficking racket and booked its five members for allegedly attempting to send 11 teenaged boys from Punjab to the United States on forged and fabricated documents. A CBI spokesman said that immediately after registering the case, searches were conducted at six places in Punjab. The five, identified as Sundeep Singh Luthra, Amit Jyot Singh, Rohit Gauba, Anshika Matharu and Rachna David, allegedly conspired in and attempted human trafficking of 11 teenaged boys to the US under the garb of an educational trip, the agency said. More ... Conference held on human trafficking in Hyderabad Hyderabad: Indicating that many cases of human trafficking go unreported in India, Alok Agarwal, Member Secretary of National Legal Services Authority(NLSA), on Saturday, said that the numbers of human trafficking cases presented every year in National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) like 8,132 cases in 2016 and 5,466 cases in 2014, are much lower than the number of women suspected to have been trafficked and working in places, where human trafficking is suspected to often occur, in the country. He was speaking at inaugural of the two-day South Asia Regional Conference on Preventing Human Trafficking. Agarwal raised another issue that although NCRB gives figures of the number of human trafficking cases filed with police in country, it remains unknown as to in how many cases stringent action is taken under Section 370 of the IPC. More ... Crack the whip on child marriages Every year, nearly 1.5 million girls in the country are married before they turn 18. But social attitudes on child marriage appear to be changing, according to global data released by Unicef on Tuesday. The prevalence of child marriage in India has dropped sharply from 47% in 2005-2006 to 27% in 2015-2016. The decadal decline in child marriage in the South Asia region has been sharp, says the Unicef study. India’s improved record has been attributed to higher levels of education among women and the provision of cash transfers as incentives for girls not to drop out of school by many states. More ... Two Rohingya held for human trafficking Imphal: Two Rohingya Muslims were arrested and a girl rescued by the police during a search operation at the border town of Moreh on Saturday night. The girl was reportedly being trafficked from Myanmar by the duo, a police source said on Sunday. Based on specific information about the presence of traffickers at Moreh Ward number 5, the police carried out a house-to-house search there and arrested the duo - Saifullah (34) of Baguna and Md Salam (25) of Gomtidam Baguna, a source said. A mobile phone was seized from them and they were handed over to Moreh police station for further investigation, the source added. More ... Anti-human trafficking bill open forum on Wednesday Pune: Womens organisations in the city have pointed out several loopholes in Trafficking of Persons (Prevention, Protection and Rehabilitation) Bill, which has been cleared by the Union cabinet recently. The bill proposes an imprisonment ranging from 10 years to life term for those involved in trafficking of humans for the purpose of begging, marriage, prostitution or labour, among others. The bill will become a law once it has been cleared by both houses of Parliament. However, women’s organisations here feel that there are many areas that have not been covered in the bill. With a view to addressing the concerns, they plan to organise an Open Forum on Trafficking of Persons (Prevention, protection and Rehabilitation) Bill, 2018, on April 18 along with the National Network of Sex workers. More ... | |
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