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Gamification 101 In the past couple of years, the concept of gamification has been widely adopted in many avenues. For example, HCL devised a game that would pr... .... read more
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In today’s world, technology is power, which can be harnessed for good as well as illegal activities. Present day trafficking is technologically advanced, and hence it calls for weapons that are powered by tech to combat it.
Though Kolkata surfaced to be the second safest city as per the number of crimes per lakh of population, West Bengal registered the highest number of cases of human trafficking in the year 2016. According to a report released by National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), the state lagged behind in several key areas in regards to women’s safety and ranked second in recording crimes against women.
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).
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.
Our experience in the anti-trafficking space for the last 10 years has taught us the importance of leveraging technology to raise awareness amongst the public about child trafficking.
Disrupting Trafficking with Techsavemissinggirls.com
In an interconnected world, technology takes no sides – where tech power is leveraged and exploited to carry out illegal activities, like human trafficking an...
