CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Of human bondage

Sheila Wheeler examines the issue of human trafficking and the way UK local authorities are stepping up their preventative action dealing with the aftermath

Each year, thousands of Nepali, Bangladeshi and Indian women and girls are trafficked to work in the unbelievable horrors of the ‘cage brothels' resulting in over 40,000 women and girl sex slaves in less than two square miles of central Mumbai.

Lured with promises of jobs, duped by ‘friends' and family, drugged by pimps and madams, they are caged, beaten and raped over and over again until their spirit is broken and they become compliant money-makers for their pimps.

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