human trafficking

                                                       According to data from the National Crime Records Bureau, trafficking of minor girls and women constituted about 76% of human trafficking cases in India over the past decade.’  ‘ Nearly 200,000 women and children are currently missing in India .  In 2015 alone, some 73,242 women have gone missing (until September) of which only 33,825 have been traced so far…. That translates to roughly 270 women going missing every day. After adding the backlog from last year, the number of women who are still untraced in India as of 2015 stood at 135,356 .’   Human trafficking is a global phenomenon that manifests itself in the form of sex exploitation, debt bondage, and organ trafficking.  It is especially prominent in economically deprived areas. Poverty lies at the heart of human traffic...