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"Ground_Reality" |
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10 Apr 2005 10:35:55 PM |
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INDIA the Global Leader in Human Trafficking & Extorsion. |
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1292350,0008.htm
US threat fires India to target trafficking
Rajnish Sharma
New Delhi, March 23,2005|02:08 IST
The Home Ministry plans a series of measures to check trafficking of
women and children following a US warning that it will impose economic
sanctions on India from June for its failure to do so.
Ministry sources said US Ambassador to India David Mulford met Home
Minister Shivraj Patil over a week ago and conveyed to him that under
the US's Victims of Trafficking and Violence Act, India's position
could be downgraded for not doing enough to curb trafficking. If this
happens, the US will be bound to vote against loans to India from
international financial institutions like the World Bank, International
Monetary Fund and the Asian Development Bank.
The Centre seems keen on taking some tough measures to tackle the
problem. Patil has convened a meeting of senior officials of the Home
Ministry and the Department of Women and Child Welfare on March 28 in
this regard.
The Home Ministry is also planning ask all states - especially Bihar,
Orissa, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Maharashtra, where
the problem is acute -- to initiate strict measures against
trafficking.
"States where the problem is more acute will be asked to rope in
voluntary agencies to launch programmes for rehabilitation for such
victims," a senior ministry official said.
Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata - which are viewed as "big markets"
for the flesh trade will be asked to launch special drives to check
trafficking, particularly of minor girls.
New Delhi also plans to get security forces manning the porous
Indo-Nepal and Indo-Bangladesh borders to step up the vigil since women
from Nepal and Bangladesh are regularly smuggled into India and sold.
The ministry, which will send a detailed report to the US ambassador on
the measures initiated to check human trafficking, will also monitor
the use of funds received from US agencies in India for "training and
sensitising" people on the issue.
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| User: "Gulshan Khan wada-Sain" |
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| Title: Re: INDIA the Global Leader in Human Trafficking & Extorsion. |
11 Apr 2005 06:41:14 AM |
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On 10 Apr 2005 20:35:55 -0700, "Ground_Reality"
<j_flogger@hotmail.com> wrote:
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1292350,0008.htm
US threat fires India to target trafficking
Serious threat to indoo economy, if there is such a thing as indoo
economy... Ah,, lets say couple hundred millions will join the list of
100s of millions already starving...
Rajnish Sharma
New Delhi, March 23,2005|02:08 IST
The Home Ministry plans a series of measures to check trafficking of
women and children following a US warning that it will impose economic
sanctions on India from June for its failure to do so.
Ministry sources said US Ambassador to India David Mulford met Home
Minister Shivraj Patil over a week ago and conveyed to him that under
the US's Victims of Trafficking and Violence Act, India's position
could be downgraded for not doing enough to curb trafficking. If this
happens, the US will be bound to vote against loans to India from
international financial institutions like the World Bank, International
Monetary Fund and the Asian Development Bank.
The Centre seems keen on taking some tough measures to tackle the
problem. Patil has convened a meeting of senior officials of the Home
Ministry and the Department of Women and Child Welfare on March 28 in
this regard.
The Home Ministry is also planning ask all states - especially Bihar,
Orissa, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Maharashtra, where
the problem is acute -- to initiate strict measures against
trafficking.
"States where the problem is more acute will be asked to rope in
voluntary agencies to launch programmes for rehabilitation for such
victims," a senior ministry official said.
Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata - which are viewed as "big markets"
for the flesh trade will be asked to launch special drives to check
trafficking, particularly of minor girls.
New Delhi also plans to get security forces manning the porous
Indo-Nepal and Indo-Bangladesh borders to step up the vigil since women
from Nepal and Bangladesh are regularly smuggled into India and sold.
The ministry, which will send a detailed report to the US ambassador on
the measures initiated to check human trafficking, will also monitor
the use of funds received from US agencies in India for "training and
sensitising" people on the issue.
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