Observed annually on 11 January, National Human Trafficking Awareness Day serves as an acute reminder of the global and national fight against one of the gravest human rights violations of our time.
Officials of both the West Bengal Police and Kolkata Police, probing the fake passport rackets in the state, are trying to track the links of these rackets with those involved in cross-border human trafficking, sources said.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has arrested two Bangladeshi nationals and one Indian for their alleged involvement in facilitating illegal infiltration and human trafficking into India.
Tripura police launched the operation after receiving credible intelligence about the illegal presence of foreign nationals in the city.
According to the central agency, search operations were conducted in collaboration with local police at multiple locations across six states and Union Territories.
Cambodia was listed at Tier 2 from 2016-2018 and from 2019 to 2021 it was on the Tier 2 Watch List until it was downgraded to Tier 3 this year.
The spokesman said Prayut had thanked related agencies for their efforts to tackle trafficking in persons, or modern-day slavery.
Women and girls are disproportionately targeted by traffickers and forced into marriage and domestic servitude and forced labour. More and more children are being targeted by traffickers using social media to recruit new victims and profiting from the demand for child sexual exploitation materials.
The women can lodge their complaints on WhatsApp no 9459886600.
At least 13 children were from Shahdol, three were from Umaria district and two hailed from Chhattisgarh, they said.
