Meeting on child trafficking

Webinar on child trafficking

Child trafficking is an issue that is extremely prevalent in India and it is continuing grow rapidly. The trafficking of young girls under the age of 18 has grown over the last decades according to the National Crime Record Bureau. These have been numerous reports about the increase of trafficking of children in the Sundarbans. In some cases, children are taken from their homes to be bought and sold in the market. In other cases, children are tricked into the hands of traffickers by being presented an opportunity for a job. Mainly children are trafficked into the Sundarbans for various reasons such as labour, begging and sexual exploitation. Some of the root causes of child trafficking in Sundarbans are poverty, lack of education and the need to financially support their family, when children are offered work. Action against child trafficking in India is being taken at many levels. Any gaps in the implementation of schemes and laws are largely filled in by NGOs that work to address different aspects of this issue. SIDS organized awareness programs to aware the common people especially women and women with children in the islands areas about child trafficking.