United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Kolkata on Sunday in the first leg of her three-day visit to the country. During her two-day stay in the city, she will meet West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. The two leaders are expected to discuss the Teesta water sharing treaty as well as the issue of FDI in retail.
The CID had unearthed a child trafficking racket earlier this year under which babies and children were allegedly sold, some to foreigners, through illegal adoption deals.
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Shah, while releasing the saffron party's manifesto 'Sankalp Patra' for the upcoming assembly elections in Jharkhand, announced that a Displacement Commission would be formed to ensure rehabilitation of people displaced by industries and mines in the state.
Minister of Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi is determined to give her ministry more teeth. "It's a ministry that needs to take itself seriously," she tells Rashme Sehgal, especially since it deals with the upliftment of millions of impoverished and exploited women.
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Four persons have been arrested so far for their alleged involvement in the case involving the trafficking of at least 17 children.
The number of rape cases in 2020 was 28,046, while it was 32,033 in 2019, the National Crime Records Bureau's 'Crime in India 2021' report showed.
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'The pandemic had a significant impact on child trafficking.' 'With economic hardships, traffickers exploited the situation to target desperate parents and children.'
Steps have been taken to raise awareness in society about this evil, the minister said.
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The request is under "active consideration" of the Union home ministry, he said.
Ms Swaraj was a conscientious woman who understood suffering and pathos and attempted in her inimitable way to mitigate them, recalls Rup Narayan Das.
The Bangladesh prime minister said that her government had tried to take care of the displaced community keeping the humanitarian aspect in mind.
A priest, Bhaktiswarup, and three touts were arrested by the Crime Branch late last night [Monday night] under the Prevention of Immoral Trafficking Act.
The police have identified the culprits and eight people were detained in this connection.
To prevent crimes against woman outside Kolkata and stop human trafficking Apne Aap Women Worldwide, a Kolkata-based NGO, has tied-up with the US Consulate General, Kolkata.
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Shoieb Ahmad, an auto rickshaw driver from Bihar, is a proud husband. His wife Fatima Khatoon's struggle of being trafficked at the age of nine in the name of marriage and her struggle to gain her freedom, won her kudos from Amitabha Bachchan on the television quiz show Kaun Banega Crorepati.
Pre-natal sex selection in India is leading to skewed sex ratios resulting in a greater demand for young women trafficked from lower castes and abroad, who are then forced into household sexual slavery, a United Nations body has said.
'Poverty-stricken and drought-affected families in Bundelkhand and Marathawada are selling their children for as little as a few hundred rupees.'
The Andhra Pradesh government has decided to strengthen the police force in the state in view of terror attacks and Maoist violence.
The United States is the only western nation which ranked in the top 10.
A 'tiny, bird-like nun' from India has emerged as an integral part of police raids on brothels in the United Kingdon run by human traffickers.
New Delhi, Dec 8 (PTI) With 1,35,000 women and 61,000 children continue to be missing in the country, government on Tuesday said it has approved the setting up of 150 specialised investigative units on crimes against women across the country.
In an address at a security conclave of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation in the Kazakh capital, he also underlined the need for holding accountable the sponsors, financiers and facilitators of terrorism, in remarks that came amid Pakistan's continuing support to various terror groups.
Women and children have been given short shrift with these crucial sectors facing substantive budgetary cuts, discovers Rashme Sehgal.
A senior WCD official said the ministry has asked the Thomson Reuters Foundation, which conducted the survey, for details on the experts to ascertain the report's authenticity, but no reply has been received as yet.
The NCW, in a statement, on Friday said it had taken cognizance of the media reports that in the Rajasthan area of Bhilwara, conflicts over loan repayments were purportedly resolved by auctioning off young women on stamp papers.
In India, the Indian-American diplomat will also meet with senior government officials to discuss the deepening US-India partnership, the state department said in a release on Friday.
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The current social realities and challenges have been addressed in the new Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023 that will provide a mechanism for effectively dealing with such crimes and criminals and also having a deterrent effect, officials said on Saturday.
They said the kingpin -- through his agents in Gujarat, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and other places -- brought children under the age of 10 years and paired them with the couples in Bengaluru who acted as family.
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This was the first major election in the country amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Obviously, the women of Bihar were not intimidated by the pandemic and came out in large numbers to vote.
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