http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/11/best-practices-in-preventing-trafficking/ A social platform for raising global issues and finding solutions Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:12:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2009/11/best-practices-in-preventing-trafficking/comment-page-1/#comment-4114 Rahul Tue, 25 Jan 2011 20:45:07 +0000 http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/?p=1711#comment-4114 I am from the state of Tripura in India. I have worked out of Mumbai and Delhi mostly. Recently, I went to my ancestral village after 5 years and found to my horror the flesh trade thriving in the border villages just next to my house. When confronted the administration passed up by saying that it was the handiwork of illegal Bangladeshi migrants. After a few like minded individuals raised a hue and cry, it was found that the adolescent Muslims girls were forced into the trade by their own parents in lure of money, and they were no Bangladeshis. Thankfully, the State government interfered and resettled them in a different town.(again the social stigma of such women in known surroundings)Last heard they were a part of an NGO and a self help group. I am from the state of Tripura in India. I have worked out of Mumbai and Delhi mostly. Recently, I went to my ancestral village after 5 years and found to my horror the flesh trade thriving in the border villages just next to my house. When confronted the administration passed up by saying that it was the handiwork of illegal Bangladeshi migrants. After a few like minded individuals raised a hue and cry, it was found that the adolescent Muslims girls were forced into the trade by their own parents in lure of money, and they were no Bangladeshis. Thankfully, the State government interfered and resettled them in a different town.(again the social stigma of such women in known surroundings)Last heard they were a part of an NGO and a self help group.

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