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Sharifa Khatoon, a young woman from the rural vill...

Overcoming Adversity: The case of Sharifa Khatoon

November, 22nd 2024 View
Organised crime presents a multifaceted challenge ...

The Complexity of Investigating Organised Crime: Why General Police Stations in India Fall Short

June, 30th 2024 View
AHTUs or Anti Human Trafficking Units were formed ...

AHTUs in Limelight: Struggles, Challenges and Strategies for Strengthening the System

April, 24th 2024 View
Anti-Human Trafficking Units, commonly referred to...

Why are current AHTUs training not effective in their role taking? What will help in improving this?

April, 22nd 2024 View
There is a myth that survivors of human traffickin...

Why victim compensation to empower trafficked survivors is nothing but a sham

November, 01st 2021 View
It is the crime that needs to be questioned, rathe...

Why AHTUs role in investigating human trafficking cases is critical to reach their logical ends

October, 15th 2021 View
“Dignity is something that I believe cannot be t...

Fighting as a girl: Stories of change

March, 30th 2021 View
A statistic from 2018 states that 7% of the total ...

Overcoming stigma: How human trafficking survivors are socially marginalised

November, 10th 2020 View
Leaving behind a life of abuse and deprivation, th...

Courage and hope: These women survivor leaders are now helping others like them

March, 18th 2021 View
The ability of survivors of human trafficking to a...

Tafteesh legal strategies took off to a new high in 2020

January, 03rd 2021 View
Let’s pledge to make care services available to ...

Leave no one alone to fight demons of the past

October, 30th 2020 View
Like any other day, Sumana (name changed) was retu...

Why Are Law Enforcement Forces Unable To Reduce Cases Of Human Trafficking?

September, 30th 2020 View
Pitting two narratives, one of mental illness and ...

Does Sushant `look` depressed? The irresponsible media narrative on mental health

August, 24th 2020 View
Poor families are forced to borrow from private mo...

COVID-19 is creating new debt traps for poor Indian families

July, 25th 2020 View
“We were clueless. We did not know about our rig...

‘We want to strengthen anti-trafficking ecosystem in India’

May, 10th 2020 View
Her passion and commitment towards her work were h...

From a street performer to activist: A trafficked women’s painful story of survival

April, 13th 2020 View
The number of cases of ‘men/ women who sexually ...

Impunity of ‘Customers’ of Child Prostitution

May, 25th 2020 View
Stigma acts as a major roadblock in the healing pr...

Fighting the spectre of stigma

December, 10th 2019 View
On the occasion of International Human Rights Day,...

Opinion Human trafficking: Forced rescues are not the answer

December, 30th 2019 View
Psychological evaluation and psychiatric assessmen...

India Needs To Focus On Mental Health Issues Of Trafficking Survivors

December, 30th 2019 View
Subhasree Raptan started her fight against human t...

Meet 25-year-old Subhasree Raptan working with human trafficking victims in Canning

September, 15th 2019 View
“I always find it satisfying when could help som...

Meet Bikash Das – a passionate activist who wants to end human trafficking in West Bengal

January, 01st 2024 View
The Immoral Traffic Prevention Act is the sole leg...

Why it is time to repeal and replace Immoral Traffick Prevention Act with a new law

August, 01st 2019 View
Now that the BJP government has returned to power,...

Policy reform to deal with human trafficking: Will the new govt at centre act?

July, 16th 2019 View
Every year, human rights activists, civil society ...

Survivors Call For Coordinated Effort to Combat Human Trafficking

July, 29th 2019 View
While the entire nation is agog with political gra...

Trafficking survivors’ votes don’t count

April, 27th 2019 View
In a black salwar-suit and matching headscarf, Ruk...

The light turns amber

March, 12th 2019 View
On first meeting Rokeya (name changed for confiden...

Interview with a changemaker

February, 26th 2019 View
Girls in thousands go missing from their homes in ...

Community must help trafficking survivors

February, 23rd 2019 View
The moment she receives the summons, the difficult...

How sex trafficking survivors in India undergo re victimisation by the judiciary

January, 27th 2019 View
Ever since the Trafficking of Persons (Prevention,...

Why The Anti Trafficking Bill Should Become A Law

January, 20th 2019 View
It was a sea of people with colourful outfits and ...

Running For A Cause: Survivors Call For Tough Laws To Combat Human Trafficking

January, 20th 2019 View
I met Minh Dang on a mild November morning in Kolk...

From The UK to India, Sex Trafficking Survivors Are Re Writing Their Destiny

January, 09th 2019 View
“There is no difference between living in a brot...

Why Shelter Homes Feel Like Prisons For Sex Trafficking Survivors, And How To Change This

December, 24th 2018 View
Utthan was born because a number of us who had suf...

As Trafficking Survivors We Too Wanted Our #MeToo Stories To Be Heard

December, 20th 2018 View
There was time not very long ago when women knew t...

How MeToo is going places

December, 18th 2018 View
When people acknowledge that someone has done wron...

The ‘not me’ syndrome

November, 22nd 2018 View
Illustration courtesy: Ashish Asthana After almost...

The police whistle and the song of caged birds

October, 21st 2018 View
The number of those being prosecuted for engaging ...

Sexual Exploitation of Children, Paid or Not, Must be Tackled

October, 14th 2018 View
“Aspiring for a better life and wishing to earn ...

Utthan evokes community role in ensuring trafficking survivor’s safety

August, 27th 2018 View
The barrage of criticism of the Trafficking of Per...

Are Activists Ignoring The Plight Of Trafficking Survivors By Opposing The New Bill?

August, 10th 2018 View
FAQs on the Trafficking of Persons (Prevention, Pr...

15 Things You Should Know About The Anti Trafficking Bill 2018

July, 21st 2018 View
Last week, the Trafficking of Persons Bill, 2018, ...

Press Note: Parliament needs to pass anti-trafficking bill

July, 26th 2018 View
Misdirected oppositions to anti-trafficking bill s...

Why anti trafficking bill is good

July, 25th 2018 View
Rokeya*, now 23 years old, used to work as a domes...

Traffickers go scott free due to non-functional facilities for giving witness through video conferencing

June, 25th 2018 View
For me, as a young legal professional working on a...

What happens when survivors and not just victims, meet lawyers?

March, 23rd 2018 View
Meanwhile, in order to further strengthen the avai...

Findings from the RTI applications filed in connection with the PIL

March, 21st 2018 View
The hearings of this PIL which began in the month ...

Hearings of the PIL: A brief run through

March, 16th 2018 View
Rejjina and Asma are two young women who have file...

Introduction to the story behind the PIL filed at High Court of Bombay

March, 14th 2018 View