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Photo: Urmila Boola / Credit: UN OHCHR India’s new anti-trafficking bill has significant flaws according to two UN experts who warn that the country must revise the legislation to bring…

Activists in India are warning that the country’s draft anti-trafficking bill headed to parliament this Monsoon Session could inadvertently criminalize transgender people and sex workers. Activists and sex workers are…

…children.” Anusha was sexually abused as child and later beaten and groomed by an older Pakistani man. Seen as “damaged goods” because of this, her family sent her to India,…

…cities and small towns. The silhouettes point to a severe problem in India: according to national crime statistics every eight minutes a girl in India goes missing into the sex…

Indian authorities say they have busted a baby-trafficking operation run out of out a shelter run by the Missionaries of Charity, a religious sect set up by the late Mother…

Photo credit: Miguel Candela There are no walls or fences between India and Nepal. The two countries share a relatively open border, and Indian and Nepali passport holders do not…

In a first, a court in Jashpur, Chhattisgarh in northeastern India, has convicted two Delhi-based recruitment agents of human trafficking. They have been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment and each…

Anti-trafficking NGOs in India are being forced to put their work on hold following public lynchings of 10 people and false rumors of child kidnapping spreading across Facebook and WhatsApp….

…to ensure that mica it sources from India is both from legal mines and free from child labor. Mercedes-Benz audited three mica mines in their supply chain in India, where…

Indian Minister for Women & Child Development Smt Maneka Gandhi is likely to table India’s new anti-trafficking bill in the coming weeks during the monsoon session of parliament. However, as…