Skewed sex ratio behind trafficking
The skewed sex ratio of Haryana has resulted in large scale trafficking of girls from the other states into the hinterland of Haryana. A report of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes (UNODC) has come out with this disturbing trend.
The UN report titled “Current Status of Victim Service Providers and Criminal Justice Actors in India on Anti-Human Trafficking-2013” reveals that “there’s a large-scale trafficking of girls from the Northeast. These girls are being brought to Haryana for forced marriage and bonded labour”.
The girls are sent to interiors of Haryana like Mewat, Rewari, Kurukshetra, Jind, Yamuna Nagar and Hisar where they are forcibly married in a totally alien culture.
The report suggests that the severe shortage of girls in villages and towns of Haryana is met by these “on sale” poverty-stricken women who belongs to north-eastern states and states like West Bengal, Assam, Jharkhand, Bihar, Orissa, Madhya Pradesh are brought to the state.
In many cases, traffickers lure the girls on the pretext of marriage and later sell them in Delhi, it adds. The report has also pointed out a finger at the dubious role of the placement agencies providing domestic help, the reports says that mainly Delhi-based agencies supply children for domestic help in Haryana. Once these children land up in their employer’s house, they are virtually kept as bonded labour. There have been many instances where these children were sexually exploited.
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