Trafficking networks need to be smashed
Thursday, 3 September 2009
TRAFFICKING networks spread across South Asia need to be smashed to save the unsuspecting victims, the girls, and women.
Women and child trafficking, one of the worst human abuse is on the rise across the world today. A serious crime for profit, it often avoids detection due to corruption and connivance. It denies the victims the right to grow up in a family environment. Poverty, armed conflict and political instability facilitate the crime. Human trafficking takes place within country (internal) and also beyond the international borders.
Girl and child trafficking is one of the worst forms of child abuse in the contemporary world. In Bangladesh, it is increasing. It is an extension of the illicit labour problem. Poverty and ignorance make girls vulnerable to exploitation. Poverty in northern Bangladesh, and the border with India are the primary reasons of the high incidence of trafficking from Bangladesh. The four Dinajpur upazillas of Hakimpur, Birampur, Nawabganj and Ghorahat have borders with the Indian state of West Bengal. It is reported that children are collected there from other parts of the country and trafficked to India, Pakistan and the Middle East. The traffickers use the women, girls and children for sex trade and forced labour.
It is open to questions how far the world-wide anti-trafficking programme could prevent trafficking of children, so that they can live in their home communities with their families. Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation in Dhaka offer children opportunities for education. It works with families who are considering to migrate to another region for better economic prospects. They are made aware of the danger of trafficking and of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases.
The traffickers, often known to the families, of the victims, act as agents. They offer lucrative jobs to the girls in the cities. The girls and young women are allured to leave their families and join them for good jobs. Sometimes, the non-suspecting parents or relatives themselves hand over their daughters to the agents, who take them across the border. The girls are forced into sex trade and forced labour. The girls face a range of dangers, including violence and sexual abuse. The traffickers maintain networks in India, Nepal and Pakistan.
Mohammad Khairul Alam
AIDS Researcher
24/3 M. C. Roy Lane
Dhaka- 1211, Bangladesh
rainbowngo@gmail.com
Women and child trafficking, one of the worst human abuse is on the rise across the world today. A serious crime for profit, it often avoids detection due to corruption and connivance. It denies the victims the right to grow up in a family environment. Poverty, armed conflict and political instability facilitate the crime. Human trafficking takes place within country (internal) and also beyond the international borders.
Girl and child trafficking is one of the worst forms of child abuse in the contemporary world. In Bangladesh, it is increasing. It is an extension of the illicit labour problem. Poverty and ignorance make girls vulnerable to exploitation. Poverty in northern Bangladesh, and the border with India are the primary reasons of the high incidence of trafficking from Bangladesh. The four Dinajpur upazillas of Hakimpur, Birampur, Nawabganj and Ghorahat have borders with the Indian state of West Bengal. It is reported that children are collected there from other parts of the country and trafficked to India, Pakistan and the Middle East. The traffickers use the women, girls and children for sex trade and forced labour.
It is open to questions how far the world-wide anti-trafficking programme could prevent trafficking of children, so that they can live in their home communities with their families. Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation in Dhaka offer children opportunities for education. It works with families who are considering to migrate to another region for better economic prospects. They are made aware of the danger of trafficking and of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases.
The traffickers, often known to the families, of the victims, act as agents. They offer lucrative jobs to the girls in the cities. The girls and young women are allured to leave their families and join them for good jobs. Sometimes, the non-suspecting parents or relatives themselves hand over their daughters to the agents, who take them across the border. The girls are forced into sex trade and forced labour. The girls face a range of dangers, including violence and sexual abuse. The traffickers maintain networks in India, Nepal and Pakistan.
Mohammad Khairul Alam
AIDS Researcher
24/3 M. C. Roy Lane
Dhaka- 1211, Bangladesh
rainbowngo@gmail.com