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In a significant development that will have a bearing on the rehabilitation of trafficking survivors in West Bengal, the District Legal Services Authority (DLSA), Kolkata has awarded ₹9 lakh as comp...

An RTI response from the AP State AIDS Control Society revealed low access to livelihood and pension schemes among sex workers. A survey conducted by various organisations working with sex workers in ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has hit the earnings of Fatima (name changed), a survivor of human trafficking, rescued in 2017. Already she was grappling with the legal process. She was earning some money from...

Survivors of human trafficking have been experiencing poor mental health since Covid started, a recent survey conducted by Sanjog, an NGO working with trafficking survivors, in collaboration with Part...

At the age of 14, Rahima Mandal from West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas was taken to Pune in 2014 on the promise of a job. Instead, she was trapped by human traffickers and brought to a brothel where s...

Various labour unions have raised their voices against the floor wages being introduced by the new codes but not too many of them have been very vocal about the OSHWC Code...

Laws exist to protect women from sexual harassment at the workplace. However, no laws make the process of migration to the workplace safer for women leading to physical and sexual violence...

A total of 225 AHTUs are set up only on paper with no centralised process to notify them....

Nearly 84% districts don’t have a functional anti-human trafficking unit, according to a study based on RTI responses from 16 States and Union Territories. The massive gap will hinder efforts to pre...

A study conducted by Sanjog, a technical resource organization, and Tafteesh, a coalition of lawyers, activists, social workers and survivor leaders, on assessing the operational competence of Anti-...

A study conducted by Sanjog, a technical resource organisation, and Tafteesh, a coalition of lawyers, activists, social workers and survivor leaders, on assessing the operational competence of Anti-Hu...

A study on operational competence of Anti-Human Trafficking Units (AHTUs) across India reveals that only 27 per cent of these units are functional....

The number of notified AHTUs in many states/UTs were much less than the number of AHTUs that states/UTs claimed were operational...

Psychological evaluation and psychiatric assessment revealed that all survivors displayed feelings of loneliness, helplessness, rejection and social anxiety. 87.3% of the survivors were diagnosed with...

Today, 10 December, is International Human Rights day. Among the issues crying out for our attention is the scourge of human trafficking. Regarded as one of the ugliest crimes on planet,...

As scattered groups across the country come together under one forum, bringing the trafficker into the dock will be the most critical challenge...

No matter how `modern` we may have become, the society is still ailing with the sickness called human trafficking. The worst victims of this evil happen to be children. ...

Vijayawada: Less than one per cent of suspects who were booked in nearly 200 cases of human trafficking, have been convicted in the past 10 years. The research carried out by a group of NGOs shows why...

The research, carried out by analysing case documents, related to 198 human trafficking cases, found that less than 1% of the accused were convicted with punishments ranging between five and seven yea...

A recent study conducted on the profile of persons accused in trafficking in almost 200 cases in West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh has revealed that one-third of them are women....

A research that looked into 198 human trafficking cases in AP and West Bengal, showed that only 3 out of 429 traffickers were convicted in the last 10 years....

Only three out of 429 traffickers in Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal have been convicted in the past 10 years, according to a new study that analysed case documents such as charge sheets, FIRs and poli...

The study found that out of the 429 named offenders only three have been convicted with punishments ranging between five to seven years of imprisonment, whereas 10 have been acquitted due to lack of e...

In Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal, only 5 people have been sentenced in the last 5 years out of 129 accused human traffickers....

Only three out of 429 traffickers in Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal have been convicted in the past 10 years, according to a new study that analysed case documents such as charge sheets, FIRs, and pol...

New Delhi, Sep 3 (PTI) Only three out of 429 human traffickers in Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal have been convicted in the past 10 years, according to a new study that analysed case documents such as...

CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Less than 1% of Indians charged with slavery offences during the past decade were convicted, research showed on Tuesday, as anti-slavery campaigners calle...

CHENNAI, Sept 3 — Less than 1 per cent of Indians charged with slavery offences during the past decade were convicted, research showed toay, as anti-slavery campaigners called for tougher action on ...

अध्ययन में यह भी पता चला है कि 429 मानव तस्करों में से 31 मानव तस्करी के कई मामलों...

Young women are supporting each other and challenging attitudes that contribute to trafficking. Helping others discover their agency, some say, has helped them rediscover their own....

he gaps in the existing legislation, according to the survivors, had led to more suffering after the rescue, as currently there is no official rehabilitation scheme for the freed victims. ...

It was a sea of people with colourful outfits and sporting gears who occupied the roads in Kolkata on Sunday morning. Among the hundreds of athletes, sports enthusiasts, students and professionals we...

met Minh Dang on a mild November morning in Kolkata about an hour before we were introduced formally. She is wearing a blue and white cotton print skirt and a white blouse. She is a small woman, but I...