Human Rights in India - Human Trafficking

Human Trafficking

Human trafficking is a $8 million illegal business in India. Around 10,000 Nepali women are brought to India annually for commercial sexual exploitation. Each year 20,000–25,000 women and children are trafficked from Bangladesh.

Babubhai Khimabhai Katara was a Member of Parliament when arrested for smuggling a child to Canada.

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