If you have ever wondered about modern slavery, then you will find the article interesting about human trafficking facts in India: history, cases and statistics. If so, follow us and read Insider Monkey’s latest article about this topic. Although slavery was banned long ago, but it still exists under another name: human trafficking. It was thrilling for me to read this article, but very edifying!
While there are international mechanisms to combat human trafficking and with the promotion of human rights globally, there is a higher recognition of the issue as such, failure of some countries to prioritize change of legislation and to resort to all means available in order to protect better its citizens has resulted in these 15 cities having the highest human trafficking scope.
Now without a further ado let’s see what Insider Monkey has investigated for us. We have picked three facts from their list.
The first one is India’s Growing Gender Imbalance is One Of the Causes. Families in India, especially those in rural areas, have strong preference of male children against female ones. This has caused a gender imbalance in the country, opening a new opportunity for traffickers. Girls, some even aged 6 or less, are being sold into the areas with a lower female to male ratio and forced into marriage against their will which also represents a form of human trafficking. The second fact is Most Human Trafficking Victims Come From Poor Background. According to Agape Research Foundation, poverty represents one of the main causes of human trafficking in India. Agape Research Foundation has made a survey of the victims, and 76% of them stated they come from very poor or poor families. It is believed that poor families encourage their kids to start working young, and doing so, make it easy for traffickers to exploit them. At last but not least we mention Trafficking Takes Place from the Villages to Major Cities. This entry on our list of human trafficking facts in India: history, causes, and statistics are directly related to the previous one. The majority of the internal human trafficking in India takes place between village and major cities. People in the villages often think about the cities as places where they can get a taste of a better life. This is why families are easily tricked by the promises of people who claim their children are destined for better things. It isn’t strange for the former victims of human trafficking to assume the roles of recruiters since they are more trusted in the smaller communities.
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