Missing Public Art and Awareness campaign is run by the MISSING LINK TRUST. We are working on Prevention through new age media like public art and app. We are also helping save missing girls and training More
To combat such accelerating rates and figures of trafficking, the Centre has planned to develop a focused anti-human trafficking wing under Central Investigation Agency, like National Investigation Agency.
India is home to over 18 million people living under the shackles of modern-day slavery. And the number of victims of sex trafficking are between 3 and 9 million.
MISSING mural walk initiative aims to start a dialogue with urban India about the dark world of trafficking because the public is the biggest stakeholder in this issue.
In the recent, International Conference on Human Trafficking held in New Delhi, Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra termed ‘human trafficking’ as the greatest human tragedy.
As many as 39 crimes against women were reported every hour in India, up from 21 in 2007, according to Crime in India 2016 report by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).
There’s been a dramatic increase of violence against women in India in the past few years.
Women involved in prostitution have always been an object of research in India. Although the real numbers of how many women are into prostitution are still dodgy, it’s estimated that around 1% of adult Indian women is associated with sex work (Dandona R, Dandona L, Kumar GA, Gutierrez JP, McPherson S, Samuels F, Bertozzi SM; ASCI FPP Study Team. “Demography and Sex Work Characteristics of Female Sex Workers in India,” BMC International Health Human Rights. 2006 Apr 14;6:5).
