Amid quake wreckage, human traffickers hunt children in Nepal

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Amid quake wreckage, human traffickers hunt children in Nepal

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LAHORE (Web Desk) – The 7.8 magnitude quake in Nepal left thousands homeless and killed at least 8,600 people. Amid the wreckage, human traffickers geared up for sales and money making. Children abducted after the devastation are being subjected to sex trade.

The countries who participated in the relief and rescue activities including India have now started campaigns to save the young survivors of the natural disaster from having to work in sweatshops and brothels.

The campaigners said that they have rescued as many as 26 children who were on the verge of being transported in return for a huge stack of money. 

According to the Independent, the impoverished families from northern India who had migrated to the affected country for work are being convinced by “aid workers” that their children would be given a secure future having a good job and the required facilities.

A United Nations (UN) report stated that at least 15,000 girls are trafficked every year mainly to India and could be done as far as South Korea.

Nepalese girls are much more lucrative for traffickers at Indo-Nepal border

A mother caught in weak moment as she catches sight of devastation

While the foreign governments dispatch more aid and goods for the homeless in Kathmandu, one finds inspirational stories of some people whose fancies actually do take flights. Among others is architect Nripal Adhikary who is making houses for the people with dirt and sand to provide safety to the girls who are vulnerable to rapes and trafficking in the area.

Source, BBC 

A Nepal youth poses for UN photographer

Mother, son wait for eatables and potable water as teams carrying aid reach

Human trafficking is a modern-day slavery. It has grown to the biggest organised crime in the world even bigger than drugs. A man sells off his underage daughter to whole another continent and two would not see eachother for the rest of their lives. According to the stats, there are at least 27 million slaves in modern-day world today. There it is, a tight slap across the face of 21st century. 

Afghani girl rescued by authorities, source Collective-Evolution 

A Kenyan girl who was sold off to a family in Saudi Arabia as domestic slave was pushed off the balcony by woman owner after she refused to go into prostitution and wearing skirts

Camera catches an infant with injuries following the deadly quake

A United Nations (UN) report states that the highest kind of trafficking is sexual exploitation which is upto at least 79 percent of the total in the world. Forced labour comes second making upto 18 percent.   

More than 40 Indians lost their lives in Nepal quake

Women take up residence in a makeshift camp

A gory representation of pain, suffering and losing family