Women Trafficking and Sexual Abuse in India
Around the world today, there is a human rights crisis of sexual abuse of millions of women, children, and thousands of men in prostitution and other forms of sexual exploitation. There are regions of the world where prostitution has gone from being almost non-existent to a hundred million dollar moneymaking industry.
I am going to talk about prostitution and sex trafficking. I don’t believe you can talk about one without the other. They are linked. Those who favor legalized prostitution have led a
15-year campaign to delink them Sex trafficking is the process that delivers victims into prostitution. It includes the recruitment, harboring, movement, and methods by which victims are compelled to stay in prostitution, whether by violence, threat, debt, or cultural manipulation. These women may be poor, uneducated, and naïve, and therefore easy to control, or they may be educated, middle-class girls who have been sexually abused until their bodily integrity and identities are destroyed and they no longer know how to resist abuse and exploitation.
Child sex abuse The average age of girls supplied to the brothels in the last two years has decreased from 14 and 16 years to 10 and 14 years
Trafficking is another problem which India faces- About 7,000 sex workers cross over from Nepal into India every year. 66% of the girls are from families where the annual income is about Rs.5000. They may be sold by their parents, deceived with promises of marriage or a lucrative job or kidnapped and sold to brothel owners. Between 40 – 50% are believed to be under 18 years which is the age of consent in India, some are as young as 9 or 10 years old.
As a solution
Formal education should be made available to those victims who are still within the school going age Awareness generation and legal literacy on economic rights, particularly for women and adolescent girls should be taken up.
# Adequate publicity, through print and electronic media including child
I am going to talk about prostitution and sex trafficking. I don’t believe you can talk about one without the other. They are linked. Those who favor legalized prostitution have led a
15-year campaign to delink them Sex trafficking is the process that delivers victims into prostitution. It includes the recruitment, harboring, movement, and methods by which victims are compelled to stay in prostitution, whether by violence, threat, debt, or cultural manipulation. These women may be poor, uneducated, and naïve, and therefore easy to control, or they may be educated, middle-class girls who have been sexually abused until their bodily integrity and identities are destroyed and they no longer know how to resist abuse and exploitation.
Child sex abuse The average age of girls supplied to the brothels in the last two years has decreased from 14 and 16 years to 10 and 14 years
Trafficking is another problem which India faces- About 7,000 sex workers cross over from Nepal into India every year. 66% of the girls are from families where the annual income is about Rs.5000. They may be sold by their parents, deceived with promises of marriage or a lucrative job or kidnapped and sold to brothel owners. Between 40 – 50% are believed to be under 18 years which is the age of consent in India, some are as young as 9 or 10 years old.
As a solution
Formal education should be made available to those victims who are still within the school going age Awareness generation and legal literacy on economic rights, particularly for women and adolescent girls should be taken up.
# Adequate publicity, through print and electronic media including child