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During lockdown: As Mumbai records 4 complaints of child marriage, authorities prevent 3
The women and child development (WCD) department is now asking its social and anganwadi workers to be on high alert in slums and chawls to keep an eye on the tiny marriage halls.
POCSO Act convicts can’t avail emergency Covid parole: Bombay HC
The court said newly introduced Rule 19 (1) (C) of Maharashtra Prisons (Mumbai Furlough and Parole) Rules, which restricted grant of emergency parole to convicts under special laws, covers the POCSO Act.
25-year-old Telangana woman rescued from being forced into ‘Jogini’ system
Jogini is an illegal practice, where women are turned into sex slaves by getting them “married to a deity.”
SC Directs States to Provide Dry Rations to Sex Workers Without Insisting on ID Proof
The apex court bench was hearing a plea which has raised the problems faced by sex workers on account of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Untold story of lockdown: sharp surge in child trafficking
Despite curbs, spike in interventions after distress calls; state governments scramble to cope, many in Covid hotspots yet to set up monitoring systems
In pandemic, Centre waved red flag on trafficking, but key states yet to take action
From UP to Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh to Jharkhand, eight states fall short in setting up anti-trafficking units
HIGHLIGHTS
Fighting for a Future
The prostituted women living in these RLAs have little to no agency. Often they are under close control of their brothelkeeper or aadmi (a kind of pimp), with little voice of their own. Here is one
such case of a prostituted mother who was forced to leave her child in the hands of her brothelkeeper, but continued to fight the odds to rescue her child.
Fighting for Freedom & Protection
Over the course of Prerana’s work in the red-light area, we have come across countless stories of a mother’s resilience to give her children the freedom they deserve. Here is one such case of a mother who fought for her son’s freedom from the clutches of her brothel keeper, and the impact created when multiple stakeholders work together.
ATC Release: Trafficking in the Neighbourhood
There is a greater vulnerability among the children of economically poor backgrounds to be pushed into the sex trade. Aniya's case sheds light on commercial sexual exploitation in the neighbourhood.
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