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In a country with 11 million abandoned children, the fate of those from loving homes who are kidnapped to order goes unnoticed. Many are sold for adoption, often to Westerners others are trafficked into slavery or the sex trade

Chennai throws 1 bucketful and gets back 2!

Within hours of arriving in Mumbai, Neetu found herself in a world unlike anything she could have imagined. A world of threats and violence in dark alleys and hidden rooms filled with cramped and brutalized bodies the world of stolen women. Night was like day. Day was like night, recalls Neetu.

Young, fair-skinned and beautiful, Neetu is one of an estimated 12,000 girls and women that the UN s International Labour Organization believes are trafficked every year from Nepal to work in the brothels of India s megacities. Other agencies believe the figure to be much higher. In Mumbai alone there may be as many as 35,000 Nepali girls working in the city s notorious red-light district, giving Nepal the dubious distinction of being the largest exporter of trafficked women in South Asia. Many are tricked into leaving their homes with the promise of a well-paid job. Some are abducted. Others are sold by their own families. In Neetu s case, the brother and husband of one of her closest friends delivered her to the brothel. They loved me so much that I never suspected foul play, she remembers.

Once there, she avoided looking clients in the eye in the hope that she wouldn t be selected a tactic which resulted in regular punishment by the brothel owner. said that if I was not selected by customers often, I would not be able to pay off my debts to her, as she had paid a sum of money to purchase me. I was told that it would take three years for me to pay off my debts. Neetu earned the equivalent of $3.70 per client, of which she was able to keep 22 cents for herself. And so it continued: four or five clients per day, every day, for over two years........

http://www.newint.org/columns/makingwaves/2006/06/02/rescue-foundation/

In India, millions of women and girls work as prostitutes. Many have been trafficked: kidnapped, lured with promises of jobs, or . Some have become sex workers (the actual term used in India) due to poverty or lack of opportunities. Hiv/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases are taking their lives at devastatingly early ages. All of these women have suffered hardship and abuse beyond imagination. However, thanks to a growing group of dedicated individuals here in the US, this tragedy is gaining massive attention........

http://www.foammagazine.com/culture/ipp-aims-to-rebuild-the-lives-of-indian-sex-slaves/

India's external intelligence agency, Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW), has been hit by another crisis. A senior female officer, working as a Director in the training branch of the agency at Gurgaon, attempted suicide on August 19 by consuming rat poison outside the Prime Minister's Office.
Nisha Priya Bhatia took the extreme step after being denied entry to register a complaint regarding her allegations of sexual harassment by some colleagues in the agency. Bhatia was frustrated at the inaction of the agency as well as the government for not taking any action about her complaints of being sexually harassed.
The Supreme Court of India has clearly recognized sexual harassment as a crucial problem faced by women workers and laid down detailed guidelines for prevention and redressal of this problem. But strangely, apart from constituting inquiries, no concrete action was taken to address Bhatia s complaint. She had even written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh about the harassment she was facing from some of her male colleagues within the agency....

http://howrah.org/india_news/26510.html

I love it when the singlecelled goes crazy & starts to shoot from the Hip

Oh sit, why can't I find enough articles to show something bad about Sri Lanka. I'm sorry India I let you down:)))