CHILD TRAFFICKING AND CHILD ABUSE HAS TO COME TO AN END.

Trafficking in children is a global problem affecting large numbers of children. Some estimates have as many as 1.2 million children being trafficked every year. There is a demand for trafficked children as cheap labour or for sexual exploitation. Children and their families are often unaware of the dangers of trafficking, believing that better employment and lives lie in other countries.

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

72 sex workers rescued in Delhi


72 sex workers rescued in Delhi:


Delhi: Seventy-two women, including 16 minors, were rescued from three brothels in GB Road from central Delhi after a joint raid was conducted by the CHILDLINE Delhi along with Delhi police and Andhra Pradesh police. The action was taken after a trafficked minor, who ran away from one of the brothels, registered a case in Andhra Pradesh in July 2011.

CHILDLINE team, 70 personnel, including women constables, were part of the raid. It included forty personnel from Delhi police’s crime branch, 23 personnel of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of Andhra Pradesh Police and a team of Kamla Market police station. 16 minors were produced before the Child Welfare Committee (CWC) in Mayur Vihar who then ordered to send them to a children’s home after a medical examination. Further investigation by Delhi Police is on. CHILDLINE is currently following up with the case.
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