Human Trafficking Crisis in India

Jarita · Post by **Jarita** » 17 Jul 2013 03:59

I wanted to start a thread on the Human Trafficking Issue in India simply because this one issue is a convergence of several issues
- Pure evil/ adharma
- Continuation of colonial slavery
- OUtcome of economic destitution
- Outcome of gross corruption in the ranks
- Engagement of political and administrative entities in the ranks
- Ideological underpinnings
- Confluence with other industries in India
- General public apathy
- Confluence with terrorism, drugs and others

It is a problem of mammoth proportions and encompasses primarily women and children though men are increasingly included

Some data points
http://www.unodc.org/southasia/en/front ... illai.html
The movement of trafficked persons from Indian states like West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu is reportedly high with the major destination points being Kolkata, Mumbai, Delhi and Goa. Recently, various reports have been received regarding trafficking of children from the North Eastern states. Recently, in addition to sexual exploitation, trafficked persons are used for forced labour, some are forced into marriages, some fall prey to organ transplanting rackets and some children end up in Middle-East countries as camel jockeys.

It is difficult to estimate the magnitude of the problem because of the clandestine nature of operations. However, intra-country trafficking is the principal mode and is estimated to account for over 90% of the total volume.

Jarita · Post by **Jarita** » 17 Jul 2013 04:01

Posting from another thread

brihaspati wrote:People should look up the track of sex-trafficking throughout the ME. The main flow has always been from the eastern portion to the western portion. Syria, Turkey and Jordan form the main destination, and even more so the main transit auction market for girls. The buyers come from KSA, and UAE, as well as some degree of domestic consumption within the transit markets. From here the choicest meat goes on to Alpine pleasure gardens, to the west too. But the main concentration of the flow of girls for sale, all point to a hub around the western side of the Gulf.

If ever a proper Indian regime arises, it should look into crushing forever and eliminating forever each and every root of the slaver culture that has its nest on that peninsula. And delegitimize, make it immensely unpleasurable to be a theologian of apologetics for sex-slavery. Many women and girls and boys from India and the subcontinent are used as chattel, simply because economics, auction for human flesh, kinky and twisted psychosexuality, and theological cover, all converge around the Gulf.

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 17 Jul 2013 09:25

Agree to the need for this thread. Will transfer go strat forum as the Delhi gang tape thread is already there.

panduranghari · Post by **panduranghari** » 17 Jul 2013 16:09

Human Organ trafficking is a curious issue.

How can a doctor do this to another human? The problem is not restricted to Nepalis trafficked into India, for organs, mainly to Chennai and Bangalore BUT is widespread all over the globe.

Indian doctors are very highly skilled but in the drive to earn money, the service to fellow human is taking a serious backseat.

Having a organ donation register or something similar will ensure organs will be donated to those who need, rather than relying on this illicit trade.

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 17 Jul 2013 20:46

Jarita take a look at the new form of human trafficking.

India emerges as a hub for surrogacy- Surrogate mothers underpaid and uncared for.

Interesting that the title doesnt think it has to be regulated. Pandurangahari this is another area where Indian medics exploit the poverty in India. Its another form of organ transplant.

As India emerges as a hub for surrogacy, surrogate mothers are underpaid and uncared for
Wednesday, Jul 17, 2013, 17:31 IST | Place: New Delhi | Agency: IANS
In many cases, their nutritional or health needs were not taken care of.

While India emerges as a hub for surrogacy, a study released Wednesday says most surrogate mothers are not properly paid or cared for.

The Centre for Social Research says the surrogate mothers are paid only one to two percent of what the commissioning parents pay for a baby.

"The commissioning parents pay anything between Rs40-45 lakh for a surrogate baby, but these women get barely Rs2-3 lakh," Ranjana Kumari, director of CSR, said.

According to the study, 46% of respondents in Delhi and 44% in Mumbai said they received Rs3-4 lakh for surrogacy while 42% in Mumbai and 22% in Delhi got Rs2-4 lakh.

Only 26% in Delhi said they earned above Rs4 lakh.

Manasi Mishra, head of the research team which brought out the report, said the women were kept either in hostels or in isolated flats or hotel rooms, out of bounds from their own families.

In many cases, their nutritional or health needs were not taken care of.

"We have seen cases where they have billed the commissioning parents for articles like health drinks but the woman had never even seen a health drink," said Mishra.

"If the woman has a miscarriage or has some health issues after the delivery, she is not taken care of," Mishra added.

The researchers also highlighted that touts or middlemen had a big role in the whole business. Nearly 74% of surrogate mothers in Delhi and Mumbai said these agents were their primary source of information.

"According to (estimates), surrogacy is an industry worth $2.3 billion," Ranjana Kumari said.

The activists say there is no law on surrogacy.

"Despite the fact that India is becoming a hub for surrogacy, we don't even know if it is legal or illegal because there is no law," Ranjani Kumari said.

"We are not against surrogacy, but the unregulated commercial nature it has acquired is a serious issue," she said.

The study adds that nearly 40% of the parents who opt for surrogacy are NRIs or foreigners while 60% are Indians.

Jarita · Post by **Jarita** » 17 Jul 2013 20:57

^^^ In the continuum of human trafficking this is actually in my view less repugnant. The issues are the regulations and actual care.
Unlike actual organ selling where the organ is not replaceable.

Jarita · Post by **Jarita** » 17 Jul 2013 21:00

panduranghari wrote:Human Organ trafficking is a curious issue.

How can a doctor do this to another human? The problem is not restricted to Nepalis trafficked into India, for organs, mainly to Chennai and Bangalore BUT is widespread all over the globe.

Indian doctors are very highly skilled but in the drive to earn money, the service to fellow human is taking a serious backseat.

Having a organ donation register or something similar will ensure organs will be donated to those who need, rather than relying on this illicit trade.

Actually an organ donation register can also create problems. If I am not mistaken in Sri Lanka cornea donation after death is mandatory leading to an over supply which is the real solution to the problem.

Perhaps for every Indian citizen it must be obligatory to donate atleast 2/3 organs of choice upon death. This will create an oversupply situation and do away with the heinous crimes done to steal organs.

Jarita · Post by **Jarita** » 17 Jul 2013 21:03

One of the things that would be useful is to highlight demand, supply and the routes as it will make the broad culpable groups more visible.
Unless this becomes an issue for the Indian masses - where they see this danger which is as palpable as terrorism, it will not go.

Also, the various classifications of trafficking
Demand -:
Sexual
Labor
Organ
Pregnancy

I will search for a breakdown

RamaY · Post by **RamaY** » 17 Jul 2013 21:59

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~katus20e/sextrafficking8.html

Jarita · Post by **Jarita** » 18 Jul 2013 07:53

^^^ From the same site

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~katus20e/sextrafficking7.html

Jarita · Post by **Jarita** » 18 Jul 2013 08:00

https://www.freetheslaves.net/SSLPage.aspx?pid=679

About India and Indian organizations working on bonded labor

Jarita · Post by **Jarita** » 18 Jul 2013 08:02

How Arabs buy 'wives' and dump them in a few weeks - Supply side in India

http://www.ndtv.com/article/cities/how- ... eks-310679

The modus operandi: set up a temporary or time-bound wedding to a rich Arab. The affluent Arab offers a negotiated amount for the services of a 'wife' during his stay in India. The price for the 'booty' varies from Rs. 15,000 to nearly a lakh for the 10-day marriage. Girls from poor families are sold like commodities to the Arabs, many of whom arrive on tourist visas from Saudi Arabia, UAE, Iran, Oman, Kuwait and Qatar. While this may seem shocking to many, the women involved in this latest form of flesh trade are often willing participants.

In Andhra Pradesh, 22 women go missing every day

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes ... ate-police

In what is a matter of great concern, the total number of women and girls that have gone missing in the state in the last four years stands at a staggering 23,760.

And this takes the cake - trafficking a 37 year old woman out of Hyderabad. So no one is spared really

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ondon.html

Actually this takes the bigger cake. How does this even happen - 2-month-old girl rescued from human traffickers in Delhi
Read more at: http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/2-mo ... 68989.html
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/2-mo ... 68989.html

Jarita · Post by **Jarita** » 18 Jul 2013 08:17

Krishnayam is doing a lot of work
Interesting method of dissemination

http://swasthyamundial.com/2012/01/a-pu ... afficking/

Jarita · Post by **Jarita** » 18 Jul 2013 08:22

Jammu Kashmir is a destination point.

The children were being trafficked to Delhi, Haryana and Jammu and Kashmir to be employed in construction, zari embroidery and glass bangle industries, he added.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Del ... 661298.ece

panduranghari · Post by **panduranghari** » 18 Jul 2013 19:36

I am glad at least the GOI banned surrogacy for foreign homosexual couples. I think this will be a start towards banning for foreign hetro-sexual couples too.

I do not see a problem if surrogates are willing and there is a legal framework to work with this. The legal framework permits reasonable welfare and remuneration. However there is a bigger issue here. The medical profession in India is very unregulated. Too many cowboys are practicing healthcare without having experience in the faculty.

I do wish if an Indian version of Royal Colleges could be established. Some like minded people should come forward and they can really set the standards unlike now. But I digress here.

I cannot think of anything more noble than donating your body organs for someone to live a better life.

member_20317 · Post by **member_20317** » 18 Jul 2013 20:40

Some time back there was a report that a bovine drug is being administered to women/girls in brothels in Bangladesh, to force them to put on weight and make them usable for the traffickers. I suspect it would not be different in India, considering the mechanics.

Jarita · Post by **Jarita** » 18 Jul 2013 21:29

^^^ When humans are trafficked all sorts of atrocities happen not limited to this

Gus · Post by **Gus** » 18 Jul 2013 22:38

in tamil dailies, every now and then, there is a case of stealing newborns. I wonder how many of these are for sale to other parents and how many for trafficking..

Jarita · Post by **Jarita** » 19 Jul 2013 04:55

^^^ It is all trafficking - whether they are sold to parents or otherwise

Sachin · Post by **Sachin** » 19 Jul 2013 13:51

There is an ongoing investigation happening at Kerala on these lines.
Nedumbassery human trafficking: Five senior police officers suspended
Kerala's Nedumbassery airport under international human trafficking scanner

The whole scam surfaced after a woman reached back India and gave a complaint. I had a discussion with one of the officers who were part of the Immigration checking team at this airport. The media had reported that this was a huge scam with many rules & laws getting violated. Where as that was not the case. There are lots of folks who are ill-educated but still want to go the Middle East. When they apply for passport, they would have a the stamp "ECR (Emmigration Clearance Reqd.)" on their passports. This means that Indian immigration authorities have to do some extra checks before such folks are sent abroad. Graduates etc. do not have this requirement. So many of the people who want to go to the Gulf use the "Tourist VISA" route, which does not have the ECR checks. Off course they did bribe the officials who other wise can stop these "tourists"

. As for the woman she too tried the same route of Tourist VISA, but was forced into a prosititution ring when she landed up in Middle East. The immigration official I had met did have a valid question - "Did'nt this woman know that she is going as a tourist to a foreign land, that too with no one to be closely guarding her? If she was planning to work there, then the route she is taking was wrong?".

The problem seems to be that every one wants to goto the Middle East hoping to get a job there. The grapes soon turn sour when they do not get what they thought would be given to them. As per the official who I met, in this case the "trafficking" was fully consensual. Hope with the officials now landing up in hot soup things would change for the better. The role of Immigration officers have now been taken over by the IB (with K.P folks being deputed to work for IB).

Jarita · Post by **Jarita** » 20 Jul 2013 00:54

How many orphanages are covers for trafficking - someone needs to raid

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/test- ... d/1140369/

The youngest of these children is only seven years old; the oldest is 15.

Nine of the 13 girls have been found suffering from leucorrhoea, a vaginal discharge typically seen among sex workers and girls and women with poor hygiene.

The Supreme Court has ruled that children from Assam and Manipur under the age of 14 years are not to be sent out of the states," Kabib said.

Pastor Jacob John was arrested by the Nagaland police in Jaipur on May 2, and by the Manipur police in Dimapur jail on June 13. Sources in Ukhrul said John, whose first wife was a Tangkhul Naga from the district, had been visiting Ukhrul from Jaipur since 1997 to preach at the Tuinem Baptist Church and Nepali Baptist Church.

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 25 Jul 2013 01:29

Jarita, First of all thanks for starting this thread and making us more aware.

Please psot the full text so this thread can be a repository.

Others, if you post a graphic try to adde a few sentences on what it means.

I am going to ask Lilo to create a twitter feed on this topic just as it was done for violence against women in India.
I would like the handle to be @Stop Human Trafficking Now in India

Jarita · Post by **Jarita** » 25 Jul 2013 08:39

^^^ Awesome if you could create a twitter feed

member_20317 · Post by **member_20317** » 25 Jul 2013 10:53

Form this old report that googled up looks like a harder law and easier prosecution is needed.

http://www.unodc.org/documents/Global_Report_on_TIP.pdf

India report starts at page 195

See Esp. the Table 174 and 175

#174 - we are convicting about the constant size of ~5000 criminals on this count.
#175 - Those being prosecuted for "Buying girls for prostitution" and for "Procuration of minor girls" can be easily identified and targeted.

Up until now I used to consider police raids on brothels a kind of TRP seeking excercise. But now I see the rationale behind that kind of policing. Gained new respect for policewalas in this role.

panduranghari · Post by **panduranghari** » 07 Aug 2013 16:14

ravi_g wrote:Form this old report that googled up looks like a harder law and easier prosecution is needed.

Do we really need harder laws? Or do we need the forceful implementation of the existing laws?

Organ Trafficking

Salient points;
[*] The World Health Organization (WHO) warns that more than one human organ is sold in every one hour, in 2010

[*]Usually, in organ trafficking, the victims experience illegitimate means of force, threat or other forms of coercion such as kidnap, deception and fraud

[*] The clients travel through different countries to get an organ, which is known as the transplant tourism (Shimazono). In addition, even without mobilization, the desperate patients obtain organs from various countries through mediators and commercial transactions (Shimazono). According to the World Health Organization, the developed countries such as the United States, Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom receive organs from most of the developing countries such as India, China, Philippines, and Pakistan (Shimazono)

[*]According to the WHO, it is reported that “there about 65,700 kidney transplants, 21,000 liver transplants and 6,000 heart transplants carried out annually (Reuters, 2007)

[*]the demand for organs in developed countries such as the United States and Australia,is higher than that in the poor third world countries. Second, selling organs is illegal in many countries, except in Iran, and people voluntarily donating organs without receiving any economic gains is very rare

[*]the price of organs in developing countries such as south Africa, India and manila, $700, $1000 - $1200, and $1200- $2000 respectively while in the United States the price of organ is above $3000

[*]A research shows that “most organ traffickers purchase a kidney for $10,000 and sell it to the patient who is receiving the organ for $150,000

[*]many poor women sell their organs to fulfill their family needs such as paying back their family’s or husband’s debts, paying for their children’s tuition fees and medical expenses ( Rohter, 2004). In contrast, men sell their organs, not merely because of poverty, but to pay back their own debt, or to buy commercial things and to start new business

[*]In case of refugees and/or forced migrants, smugglers forcefully demand the organs from the refugees especially when they attempt to migrate to other countries, illegally (CNN, 2011). Additionally, it is reported that dead bodies of refugees including children, and adults are often found in trash can with missing vital parts of organ in their bodies (CNN, 2011). Further, in China, according to the Chinese law, the government forcefully remove the organs from prisoners who have been given capital punishments. The human-rights advocacy organization Amnesty International points out that “an estimated 65% of China's organ donations come from prisoners (Burkitt,2012).” Moreover, children are also victims of organ trafficking, as they are fragile and easy to be trapped. In Africa, it is foundthat even parents sell their children’s organs to the traffickers. Similarly, in Haite and Mongalia,the orphanage and street children, in particular, are more vulnerable to trafficking due to their abandoned position in societies

[*]Hinduism, Buddhism and Christianity, encourage organ donations because it is an individual choice, and an act of charity and love while some, for example Islam, restrict it as it is not mentioned in their holy book Quran (Bresnahan & Mahler, 2009). In most of Asian Developing countries, such as China, India, Philippines the major religions are Hinduism, Buddhism and Christianity. Thus, people may be willing to sell their organs as the religion encourages organ donatio. In addition, since Islam restrict organ donation , it may be the reason for less supply of organs in Muslim countries such as, Iraq and Saudi Arabia

[*]Another consequence of selling organs is that poor become unhealthy, as they do not receive proper medical treatment after their surgery

[*]A recent meta-analysis data shows that “obtaining organs abroad are at a higher risk of contracting transmissible diseases, such as hepatitis B or HIV

[*]The supporters of organ trafficking argue that since our body belongs to us, each individual has the right to do whatever she or he wished ( Cherry). In addition, scholars state that making restriction on organ selling affects our personal autonomy and freedom to act. The medical community prefers organ selling because of shortage of organ supply in the global context ( Cherry). They also argue that as the organs available for transplantation is very less, the only way to increase the supply is by giving them financial incentives ( Cherry). Additionally, scholars also point out that the poor in the developing countries get economic benefits by selling their organs ( Cherry).

Jarita · Post by **Jarita** » 20 Aug 2013 22:28

^^^ Those data points are horrific especially as it relates to children. What demons walk amongst us

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 22 Aug 2013 21:32

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X-posting my post from cricket thread:

Muppalla wrote:
Singha wrote:Mumbai: Arrested Rajasthan Royals S Sreesanth is facing more trouble as details tumble out in the IPL spot-fixing scandal. Mumbai Police sources have now told CNN-IBN that the examination of Sreesanth's laptop and notebook points to his e-mail interactions with a suspected Bollywood casting director, who sent him pictures of models. Sources say that some e-mails, possibly Sreesanth's conversations with Jiju and a bookie Jupiter, have been deleted and now the cyber cell will be asked to retrieve all the mails.

Police sources have also found a photograph of Sreesanth and the bookie Jupiter saved in the laptop. Police sources add that they have also retrieved a list of contact numbers saved in a folder in the laptop, and all were saved under code names.

This comes a day after reports of how Sreesanth resisted arrest surfaced. Sreesanth, who has been arrested in connection with the IPL 6 spot-fixing scandal, had resisted arrest by Delhi Police in Mumbai, sources said on Sunday. The cricketer was reportedly in a sedan when police approached him in an SUV.

The cricketer, according to the sources, threw his phone at the policemen, who tried to arrest him, and asked them to call up the Maharashtra Chief Minister and the Kerala Chief Minister. He, however, mellowed after seeing bookies in the custody, said the sources.
They will never go deeper on women trafficking. Entire edifice of India will fall flat on the ground. I hate to say, 99% of women (big or small or good or bad) of Bollywood are all pure prostitutes and are in the pleasure servicing industry. This much of money in betting is a top class attraction. If police do a serious investigation and start arresting the women then show the faces to public, stuff that can bring a bunch of governments down will comeout. No way this will be allowed.

Truer words were never spoken. This is the root of it.

I think of most this stuff is done by 'aam-people' for women and to fit-in. Money is kind of secondary.

All of these threads tie in with one another and they are interlinked. Drugs, arms, betting, match fixing, movie-financing, movies, prostitution, terrorism, hawala, corruption of politicians, ...etc. And this ties in with international(or rather multi-national networks) with their hub in London. Most of the important nodes in this network happen to be former colonies of Raj. These nodes can act as resources, markets, conduits or tax havens.

And this is definitely not limited to IPL.

There are two sides to these things. A legal front and an illegal underbelly. Illegal underbelly cannot be taken out without damaging a significant portion of legal side of business. In fact, the top people participating in all these events have lot of inter-relations and depend on each other directly or indirectly.

The danger is that, in desh, these activities finance islamic terrorism directly and indirectly. The same networks are used. The same money is routed. So, one of the reasons for allowing terrorism to continue is because these networks(hawala) cannot be stifled without having repercussions in many other seemingly unrelated fields.

partha wrote:
With such a scary and well-oiled network at hand, no wonder the illegal betting racket boasts of a Rs40,000 crore turnover every season. Not that the Delhi Police has not been on the trail of these notorious men and women but often, for lack of clinching evidence, or negligence, the culprits corrupting the religion of cricket go scot-free.
Legalize betting. That seems to be the only way. At least govt will get tax money. Of course, that will not stop fixing in cricket. That's a different problem.

In these circumstances, legalizing the betting is the worst thing that the state can do. No wonder that some people with vest interests are pushing for legalizing the betting.

What does legalizing the betting do?
It allows people to open betting parlours in every nook and corner of desh. In small villages, small towns, big towns, small cities, big cities and of course, every street corner in metros, one would find betting parlours. One may not have roads, electricity or water, but one would be able to get liquor store and betting parlour. People from the age of 14(or even lower) can be attracted to these places. A betting parlour with liquor availability and a dose of bar balas would do wonders to the business. There would be hi-fi betting parlours and also cheap ones.

Increased exposure and spread would mean increase in customers. That means much greater business, which in turn means, much bigger incentive to pre-fix the results i.e. cheat the people.

And of course, there would be syndicates. These syndicates would also involve local/national politicians(or their benamis). That means many powerful and connected people(including the politicians) enter the betting business. It is in their interests to get profits. How do they get profits? By cheating the people, directly or indirectly...

People who fix the matches or who know such people, would know the results beforehand and can make profits, while the mango man will be made a fool. This is simply a scam.

The govt.s would get tax on betting. Just as, govt.s are getting tax on liquor. Then, Govt.s would look at betting as an important source of revenue. That means, Govts would want the people to participate in betting. But, if people are addicted to betting and liquor, and also lose money, then how will they live?

Well, there are already thing happening which point to how the scenario may develop. The Govt.s would announce 'inclusive social welfare' scheme for poor people. Instead of generating proper economic activity by creating employment, Govt.s take the easy route and depend on money from liquor and betting(even prostitution, if that also becomes legal). Then, the politicians take their cut. The owners of these Org.s take their cut. The mango man is looted here. But, to keep the game running, the Govt creates welfare scheme which runs on the money generated from liquor and betting. So, a poor man spends 200 Rs on bottle of liquor and 300 Rs on betting per day, but he earns only 100 Rs per day. He has debts. He can't afford to send his children to schools. But, don't worry, Govt announces a scheme: free education for children. Money transfer to poor people during elections. The Govt announced schemes are just enough to keep the charade running. How will the Govt finance the free education for children? By indirectly increasing the taxes(i.e. inflation) and through liquor and betting money. Inflation means the poor are hurt bad. In short, it is like Govt takes 10 Rs from your hard-earned money and gives back 2 Rs to you in the name of 'inclusive social welfare'. The 8 Rs are divided between the businessmen, kickbacks for politicians and Govt. treasury.

And the middle-class become suckers in this scheme, until the middle-class become poor enough to qualify for the Govt 'inclusive social welfare'. No employment generation...

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Bade wrote:Did Sreesanth's initial tweet trigger all this, and now it is a reveal it all as a result of the triggered event not doing a controlled news dissemination, but is firing in all random directions and all others are getting exposed too.

Go to give it to him for doing that for us. How would we ever know. I was gasping after watching the tehelka expose posted earlier. Comments from Gavaskar, Shastri old admins all very enlightening onlee.

I think nothing happens without adequate planning, especially 'expose' of this kind. I mean the dilli cops say that they 100s of hours of conversation taped, right? That means they have been taping it for atleast 2 months. Then, why did they come out with it now? And why out only these chota players?

Anyway, most of these bookies would already be known to cops. So, there must be some reason to out these guys now.

In the above video, Kalgi says that the Sreesanth episode is a small player thing. Even the bookies behind this episode may have been small ones. So, this was not meant to be major, yet it was meant to divert attention of the nation and it was meant to shore up the credibility of dilli polis.

Divert attention from what?

It seems to me that whenever the mms sahib is in the line of fire and the heat gets too close to comfort, some other scam breaks out diverting the attention. After the law-minister had resigned, the mms was the next logical sequence. This episode was perhaps meant to divert attention from that.

But, it seems things are spiraling out of control with different state polis playing their own games. In such times, people try to make the most of it by trying to get rid of their enemies.

Anyway, it seems that Srini Mama's goose is cooked for now. Maybe he can lay low for sometime. It seems mumbai lobby is trying to dislodge the Srini Mama and regain the hold

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ramana · Post by **ramana** » 23 Aug 2013 09:10

Global Problem:

Siddharth Kara, "Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery"
English | 2008-11-17 | ISBN: 0231139608 | 320 pages | PDF

Every year, hundreds of thousands of women and children are abducted, deceived, seduced, or sold into forced prostitution, coerced to service hundreds if not thousands of men before being discarded. These trafficked sex slaves form the backbone of one of the world's most profitable illicit enterprises and generate huge profits for their exploiters, for unlike narcotics, which must be grown, harvested, refined, and packaged, sex slaves require no such "processing," and can be repeatedly "consumed."

Kara first encountered the horrors of slavery in a Bosnian refugee camp in 1995. Subsequently, in the first journey of its kind, he traveled across four continents to investigate these crimes and take stock of their devastating human toll. Kara made several trips to India, Nepal, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, the United Kingdom, Italy, the Netherlands, Denmark, Albania, Moldova, Mexico, and the United States. He witnessed firsthand the sale of human beings into slavery, interviewed over four hundred slaves, and confronted some of those who trafficked and exploited them.

In this book, Kara provides a riveting account of his journey into this unconscionable industry, sharing the moving stories of its victims and revealing the shocking conditions of their exploitation. He draws on his background in finance, economics, and law to provide the first ever business analysis of contemporary slavery worldwide, focusing on its most profitable and barbaric form: sex trafficking. Kara describes the local factors and global economic forces that gave rise to this and other forms of modern slavery over the past two decades and quantifies, for the first time, the size, growth, and profitability of each industry. Finally, he identifies the sectors of the sex trafficking industry that would be hardest hit by specifically designed interventions and recommends the specific legal, tactical, and policy measures that would target these vulnerable sectors and help to abolish this form of slavery, once and for all.

Jarita · Post by **Jarita** » 24 Aug 2013 00:19

Another one

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004J4 ... r_asin_lnk

Trafficking for Begging: Old Game, New Name

'Trafficking for Begging: Old Game, New Name' reveals an ugly industry - the exploitation of beggars as a form of human trafficking. The book gives a voice to the thousands of begging victims and uncovers the aspects of this criminal activity. Apart from the legal and social discussion, the study looks into psychological theories as to why people give money to beggars. The author suggests ideas for public campaign messages that can break the exploitative cycle of trafficking for begging taking into consideration these psychological explanations. If you liked the movie Slumdog Millionaire, it is likely that you would also be touched by the main message brought by 'Trafficking for Begging: Old Game, New Name.'

Jarita · Post by **Jarita** » 24 Aug 2013 00:29

Interview with Siddharth Kara

http://cup.columbia.edu/static/siddarth-kara-interview

he following is an interview with Siddharth Kara, author of Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery. You can also watch a video of Kara discussing the book.

Q. I thought most countries abolished slavery during the Nineteenth Century. Are there still slaves today?

Siddharth Kara: Yes, there are still slaves today, even though slavery is illegal in every country in the world. By my calculation, there were 28.4 million slaves in the world at the end of 2006. These slaves were in three primary categories: 18.1 million debt bondage/bonded labor slaves, 7.6 million forced labor slaves, and 2.7 million trafficked slaves (slaves who were coerced or deceived then transported into a forced labor or debt bondage situation). Of these trafficked slaves, 1.2 million were sex slaves. For reasons I discuss in my book, there will assuredly be more slaves in the world today than at the end of 2006, with the highest growth in the trafficked slave category.

Q: Since sex slaves are a small percentage of slaves worldwide, why did you focus your book on this small category of slavery?

SK: Sex slavery is the first form of slavery I (consciously) encountered. I first came across sex trafficking while I was volunteering in a Bosnian refugee camp in the summer of 1995, an experience that profoundly affected me. In my research I focus on sex slavery for two additional reasons. First, it is perhaps the most grotesque and barbaric form of exploitation suffered by contemporary slaves. Whips, cigarette burns, knife slashes, beatings, broken bones—all slaves suffer these tortures, but sex slaves suffer these as well as ten, fifteen, or even twenty instances of forced sex each and every day. Second, sex slavery is by far the most profitable form of slavery. Even though only 4% of all slaves are sex slaves, these same slaves generate almost 40% of the total profits enjoyed by slave owners each year.

Q. What place does economic analysis have in addressing a human rights violation like slavery?

SK: Having met hundreds of slaves throughout the world, I am well aware that the moral outrage of slavery should be more than sufficient to provide motivation to abolish these crimes. However, abolitionists must not lose sight of the fact that slavery is essentially a crime predicated on economic benefit—i.e., maximizing profits by minimizing the cost of labor. Abolitionists must also not forget that powerful macroeconomic forces unleashed during the process of economic globalization in the post–Cold War era have been more responsible than any other force for the unforgivable rise in contemporary slavery.

The first stage in the contemporary abolitionist movement was to reignite awareness of the fact that slavery still exists, most effectively achieved by Dr. Kevin Bales and his 1999 publication, Disposable People. However, awareness and outrage must be harnessed into effective action, which has for the most part eluded the global community thus far. The second stage of the contemporary abolitionist movement is to equip this outrage with a granular understanding of the global economic forces that unleashed modern slavery, and the microeconomic forces that allow it to thrive in nearly every corner of the world.

My book has been conceived as an attempt to unify outrage with economics, based on the premise that the economic analysis will provide the insight through which to design a more effective global response to this brutal crime against humanity. Only after understanding how sex trafficking functions, as a profit-driven business, can a more effective abolitionist movement be deployed that will attack the business by dismantling its fundamental premise: the exploitation of a vast supply of potential slaves to meet the demand for ever-greater profits in the worldwide commercial sex industry.

Q. How did you go about researching this subject?

SK: When I began my research in the summer of 2000, few people knew what sex trafficking was, so I decided the only way to find out was to go straight into the field and learn for myself. I used money saved from my business career and took three separate trips to more than a dozen countries. I walked into brothels, massage parlors, and sex clubs to see for myself how the industry functioned. I journeyed to the villages and towns from which the victims originated to understand the conditions that gave rise to their exploitation. I traveled to numerous borders to understand how the movement of victims was accomplished. I interviewed victims of trafficking for purposes other than sexual exploitation, and I interviewed over two hundred individuals in other forms of contemporary slavery.

Word of mouth and hustling with locals were my best tools for finding the sex slave underbelly in each country. In cities like Chiang Mai in Thailand or Mumbai in India finding sex slaves was easy—the brothels were in plain view, even though they were illegal. In Moldova, sex clubs were numerous and prostitutes came right to my hotel door the evening I arrived. In other countries such as Italy, where the laws against illegal brothels are more strictly enforced, it took time to track down sex slaves. Eventually, I learned that in most countries, taxi drivers almost always knew where to find cheap sex, and cheap sex was almost always provided by slaves.

Because of the extreme sensitivity and potential danger in discussing trafficking ordeals, I established two ground rules to ensure I never, ever made a victim’s life worse than it already was. First, I was determined to do no harm. I never forced a conversation, and I never solicited one where the victim would have suffered for speaking to me. In shelters, I did not approach interviewees with a list of questions that I expected to be answered, but instead I approached them with a casual conversation. The results were often long, honest, detailed discussions, in which the victims poured their hearts out. Second, when visiting sex establishments I was always equipped with information on nearby shelters and health services, just in case a sex slave requested assistance. In most cases, I did not offer the information unless asked, since many sex slaves had convinced themselves they were not slaves, and suggesting otherwise would only distress them. Nevertheless, I occasionally left the information behind, hoping it would prove beneficial to someone, at some point.

Q. Were you ever in any danger?

SK: There were a few close calls during my research. In the book, I describe one incident when I was cornered in a pinjara, which is a small, box-like room in which many slaves are sold for commercial sex on Falkland Road in Bombay. I made a foolish error in judgment one day and found myself cornered by a few thugs. I think the Fates were watching over me that day because I had a sliver of a moment in which I was able to escape.

Q. Meeting so many slaves must have been so difficult, were there any highlights?

SK: Positive moments during my research were few and far between. For the most part, the encounters were exceedingly difficult. Stories of liberation were always uplifting, but the challenges faced by slaves after they are free can be almost as difficult as the slavery itself. Many face the same conditions of poverty, bias, and lack of opportunity that consigned them to slavery in the first place. That, plus the physical and psychological damages they have endured, creates immense challenges to a functional life.

One of the lowest points of my research also provided a momentary highlight. I end the book with the narrative of a young Burmese girl named Aye, who had been a slave in a goods-processing facility in Thailand for ten of the first fourteen years of her life. Meeting Aye shook me to my core. After our interview, I asked if she would share some of the art she had been making in the shelter in Chiang Mai—pencil holders, postcards, and such. She was thrilled and hurried to retrieve her work. She handed me piece after piece with such glee. Each time I took hold of her little bits of art, she bowed her head in sheer joy that I was enjoying something beautiful she had made with her own hands.

I remember feeling complete despair during those final days of my last research trip—Aye’s bleak tale of brutish exploitation, and the bent and terrified manner with which she carried herself—left me feeling so despondent . . . until we spent some time looking at her artwork, and the smile that lit up her face was so innocent and pure, it could not help but lift my spirits.

Q. What can people do to help?

SK: In my book, I call for a new brand of global abolitionist movement predicated on a more unified, targeted, overwhelming response from governments, international organizations, and individual citizens alike. Individuals have a crucial part to play. First, they can support grassroots anti-slavery organizations, either through volunteer efforts or financial contribution. Second, they can demand that their governments take the steps required to abolish slavery once and for all. Third, and perhaps most important, they can serve as the frontlines of a new abolitionist movement, by forming a system of anti-slavery community vigilance committees, which is a concept I discuss in the book and am working on implementing as we speak.

Sachin · Post by **Sachin** » 26 Aug 2013 13:39

Did not know which thread to put this. The case is not of a human trafficking per-se, but more on the forced marriage of under-age girls with grooms who have no plans to continue the relationship. More of a prostitution, with some religious sanction. Case reported from Malappuram, Kerala.
Young woman says she is victim of child marriage

Jarita · Post by **Jarita** » 26 Aug 2013 19:26

^^ that is trafficking

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 27 Aug 2013 01:40

Jarita wrote:Another one

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004J4 ... r_asin_lnk

Trafficking for Begging: Old Game, New Name

'Trafficking for Begging: Old Game, New Name' reveals an ugly industry - the exploitation of beggars as a form of human trafficking. The book gives a voice to the thousands of begging victims and uncovers the aspects of this criminal activity. Apart from the legal and social discussion, the study looks into psychological theories as to why people give money to beggars. The author suggests ideas for public campaign messages that can break the exploitative cycle of trafficking for begging taking into consideration these psychological explanations. If you liked the movie Slumdog Millionaire, it is likely that you would also be touched by the main message brought by 'Trafficking for Begging: Old Game, New Name.'

In medieval India, begging by religious folks also known as 'fakirs' increased during Feroz Tughlaq. He made it lucrative for the medicants or fakirs to live by begging.

Hindu Newpaper:

When Fakirs held sway

IT IS a strange fact of history that most of the Muslim rulers of Delhiwere all dependent for the success of their reigns on Sufis like Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti, Khwaja Qutbudin Bakhtiar Kaki, Baba Farid, Hazrat Nizamuddin Aulia and Sheikh Nasiruddin Mahmud. It is because of this that Delhi is known as the threshold of 22 khwajas or saints, all of them were venerated by Ahmed Shah.

This fact has been recognised by no less a researcher than Richard M. Eaton, who teaches South Asian History in Arizona, USA. His books include Sufis in Medieval India, Essays on Islam and Indian History, The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier and The Sufis of Bijapur.In his chapter of Sufism and State Building, included in Muslim States in Medieval India Eaton quotes Abd dal-Malik Isami, the Bahamani court poet in 1350 as saying:

"In every country there is a man of piety who keeps it going and well. Although there might be a monarch in every country, yet it is actually under the protection of a fakir (sufi saint)."

Fourteen rulers of Bengal were devotees of Sheikh Ala al-Haq, who died in 1398 and whose mentor had been a disciple of Hazrat Nizamuddin.It was Moinuddin Chishti who patronised Mohammad Ghori, whose successor Qutbuddin was a mureed of Khwaja Qutubuddin Bakhtiar Kaki, after whom he named the Qutub Minar. Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya was the spiritual guide of Mohammad bin Tughlak. Firoz Tughlak was a devotee of Nasiruddin Mahmud. Even the Moghuls believed they derived their power and authority from the sufis of India. Babar paid homage at the shrine of Nizamuddin Auliya after his capture of Delhi and his brother-in-law, repaired the shrine of the saint.

Akbar built his father, Humayun's Tomb in Nizamuddin and made pilgrimages to the dargah in Ajmer on foot. His devotion to Sheikh Salim Chishti is well known. Jahangir, Shah Jahan, Aurangzeb and the latter Moghuls like Ahmad Shah (1748-54) carried on this tradition right up to the time of Bahadur Shah Zafar (1837-58), who built his mahal opposite the shrine of Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki. Many emperors are buried near Qutubddin's Dargah and in Humayun's Tomb, in the vicinity of Nizamuddin Auliya's shrine. So also at Fatehpur Sikri, a whole city founded by Akbar in honour of Sheikh Salim Chishti, through whose prayers Jahangir was born.

Eaton quotes Isami as saying, "The decline of Delhi and Tughlak Empire, generally, had resulted in large part from the demise in 1325 of Sheikh Nizamuddin Auliya. Conversely he (Isami) considered that the arrival in the Deccan of one of Nizamuddin Auliya's leading spiritual successors, Burhan al-Din Gharib was the cause of that region's flourishing state at mid-14th Century.

Sufi saves

According to Isami, the Delhi Sultanate was saved from a Mongol invasion in the 14th Century because of the respect shown by Mohammad bin Tughlak to the shrine of Moinuddin Chishti. Earlier, Delhi escaped the invasion of Chinghez Khan during the reign of Altamash in 1221 due to the devotion of the Sultan to Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki. Jahanara Begum, Shah Jahan's daughter, wrote a biography of the Ajmer Khwaja (Moinuddin Chishti).

Eaton quotes Syed Liaqat Hussin Moni to show that the Moghul courtly culture still prevails at the shrines of the Chishtis: "It has been noted recently that the qawwali protocols observed during the annual urs ceremonies at Ajmer, betray the impact of Moghul court etiquette. The Diwan, dressed in Moghul fashion, represents in fact the Moghul king rather than a religious dignitary, and comes escorted by the torchbearers and mace-bearers wearing Moghul costumes. He takes his seat on the cushion (gadela) under a special tent (dalbadal) erected for the occasion. On his arrival in the shrine the Diwan kisses the tomb and offers flowers, and then one of the khadims, who happens to be his wakil, like the other pilgrims, ties a dastar (turban) over his head, spreads the cloth sheet over his bowed head prays for him, and then gives him taburruk, consisting of flowers, sandal and sweets. Then he (the Diwan) sits down and the fatiha khwans, who are permanently and hereditarily employed, recite the fatiha, as well as prayers for the sovereign (badsha-I-Islam), the diwan, the mutawalli and other officials, and for the general public."

The Ajmer urs that concluded recently witnessed these ceremonies, some of which are repeated at the annual pilgrimage to the shrines of Qutuuddin Bakhtiar Kaki and Nizamuddin Auliya in Delhi. So the link between medieval rulers and saints continues unbroken, notwithstanding the locked door that greeted Balban when he went to placate a sufi who had been insulted by his grandson, Kaikobad.

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 31 Aug 2013 00:28

Related x-post.....

Sagar G wrote:No right to call ourselves 'mard', if our women are not safe: Modi

Saying that protection of "mothers and sisters" was a big issue before the Indian society, Gujarat chief minister on Friday said in Chota Udepur that if women were feeling insecure, the Indian men had no right to call themselves "mard" (manly).

"In the country of Sita and Savitris....protection of mothers and daughters is a big question for the Indian society," Modi said at a rally in the newly-created Chota Udepur district.

"I don't want to make a political comment. But I want to ask men why our sisters are unable to lead a peaceful life despite our presence.... (How is it) that our sisters can't stay alone at home..." Modi said, speaking at the function where he was felicitated for creation of the new district.

"If this is so, we have no right to call ourselves men. We have no right to call ourselves `mard'. We must die of shame," Modi said.

The BJP campaign committee chairman however did not refer to the recent incidents such as the Mumbai gangrape and allegations of sexual assault against controversial godman Asaram Bapu.

But he derided those who blame women for such incidents. "Some men with pervert brains blame women for such acts. It is no fault of the woman....The fault lies in the pervert minds of men. And, society has to fight against such pervert mindset," Modi said.

"Exploitation of women and daughters is a blot on the society, which it must fight. Society must get rid of this blot. We must assume a collective responsibility to get rid of this blot," Modi said.

He further said that "this country was never like this. These pervert mindsets are not what India is associated with".

Hitting out at the UPA government on this occasion, Modi said that unlike those who had been making false promises for the last 60 years, his government kept its promises.

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Jarita · Post by **Jarita** » 01 Sep 2013 07:42

^^^ Good point but trafficking is not just women. Other than sex trafficking which is mostly women (please note the mostly), the rest of the forms - cheap labor, organs etc are pretty gender agnostic.

Lilo · Post by **Lilo** » 02 Sep 2013 09:55

Not a problem R garu,
If its for India the preexisting template may be used - let me look into it in the mean time.

Lilo · Post by **Lilo** » 02 Sep 2013 18:23

ramana wrote:Jarita, First of all thanks for starting this thread and making us more aware.

Please psot the full text so this thread can be a repository.

Others, if you post a graphic try to adde a few sentences on what it means.

I am going to ask Lilo to create a twitter feed on this topic just as it was done for violence against women in India.
I would like the handle to be @Stop Human Trafficking Now in India

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 03 Sep 2013 20:24

Perfect. Thanks a lot.

Hope jarita is also satisfied.

What we need is to have more people follow the accounts and get it more publicity to increase the awareness.

I would like some others to take the feed to a website and capture the data.

Lilio, You are a great treasure for the Forum for having created meaningful data compilation from the web news services.

SS and I will have more projects for you!!!

Lilo · Post by **Lilo** » 03 Sep 2013 21:31

Thank you R ji . My contribution is very little compared to what other BRFites regularly manage to achieve in a days posting on forum. Trying to name them is a disservice as list will become too long. As a single example I am still in awe with arun ji who like an untiring cybernetic being keeps incessantly exposing the atrocities Pakis daily commit on their minorities. I am grateful to him just as I am to others on this forum.

Regarding the feeds .. new ones as I said won't be a problem - as the yahoo pipes template is the same for any issue as long as it pertains to India.
If a new geographical area needs to be analysed - with a good toponym set available in hand, one can go ahead.

In the mean time I'll paste the links to the publicly shared Google drive spreadsheet where all the feed data is being stored tomorrow. Those who want to do serious/scholarly research on the issue can use those spreadsheet as a resource similar to the spreadsheets provided for @violenceonwomen feed.

RamaY · Post by **RamaY** » 03 Sep 2013 21:35

Sachin wrote:Did not know which thread to put this. The case is not of a human trafficking per-se, but more on the forced marriage of under-age girls with grooms who have no plans to continue the relationship. More of a prostitution, with some religious sanction. Case reported from Malappuram, Kerala.
Young woman says she is victim of child marriage

There is a news report in a telugu paper last week.

A shek came to india and married a 17yr old belonging to an orphanage. Then they went around the country (within India) for a honeymoon. And after 30 days, he left the girl in the orphanage and returned to ME. From there he gave phone Talaq.