India tops the list

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Hi,

Recently, the Global Slavery Index 2014 was launched highlighting the reality of modern slavery in the world.¹ With one child going missing in India every eight minutes², it's no surprise that India tops the list with the highest number of people in modern slavery.

Although the problem is of serious concern throughout the country, West Bengal is emerging as the centre of human trafficking. With no law pertaining to placement agencies in West Bengal, children and women continue to fall prey to illegal recruitment agencies that entice them with false job offers, and then trap them into domestic slavery.

Earlier this year, the government of Chhattisgarh took an admirable step and adopted a law to regulate placement agencies, the first state in India to do so.³ If we come together, we can encourage West Bengal to pass a similar law and make ending trafficking for domestic slavery an urgent priority.

Ask the Chief Minister of West Bengal to enact a law that will regulate and register placement agencies.

United Nations Office on Drug and Crime states that out of over 19,000 children and women who went missing from West Bengal in 2011, only 6000 have been traced.⁴

Anti-slavery organisations believe that many of those have been trafficked to cities as domestic workers, where they remain at the mercy of traffickers -- abused and exploited. By calling on the state government to take immediate action, we can together help protect children and women from false allurements of traffickers.

Click now to help protect children and women in West Bengal from domestic slavery.

There are thousands of people vulnerable to trafficking in West Bengal today. By taking action now, we can ensure that important steps are taken to protect them from the nightmare of modern slavery.

Thank you,

Kamini, Ravi, Jaspreet and the teams at Walk Free and Shakti Vahini

1.www.globalslaveryindex.org
2.http://ncrb.nic.in/CD-CII2011/Statistics2011.pdf
3.http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Human-trafficking-Chhattisgarh-first-state-to-implement-placement-agency-act/articleshow/39637562.cms
4.http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Bengal-tops-UN-list-of-missing-kids-women/articleshow/21075876.cms

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