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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
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.
There continues to be a piercing spike in the number of reported crimes against #children – in #India, crime records reveal kids face a deadly slew of threats daily, right from sexual violence, #trafficking, and slavery to early marriage and forced prostitution.
Missing: Game For a Cause is apt to spread awareness about the perils of sex trafficking. During the game-play, the players fit into the shoes of a trafficked victim and feel the state of helplessness, frustration and despair the vulnerable girls go through.
This year, Andhra Pradesh issued a GO to criminalize buying of sex – it’s the first Indian state to explore beyond the conventional horizons of human trafficking punishment. This means once the law is set into motion, anyone who buys sex from the sex workers will face criminal charges and imprisonment.
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).
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...