Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Indian Capital Plans to Help Trafficking Victims with Training, Jobs

 
 Swati Maliwal, Head of the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW)


Reuters, 06/10 16:54 CET

By Nita Bhalla

NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Authorities in the Indian capital plan to set up a programme to help rescued victims of human trafficking through training and work placements, the first part of the country to do so, a government statement said.

The head of the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW), Swati Maliwal, said after the first meeting of the city’s Anti-Trafficking Committee that a task force would draft “a rehabilitation policy for trafficking victims,” the statement late on Monday said.

“Under this policy trafficking victims would get skill development training and job placements also,” it said, adding that private sector businesses could support the initiative.

National Crime Records Bureau data shows that 2,676 children were rescued from trafficking in 2014, against 3,834 the previous year. Activists say this grossly under-estimated the scale of the problem.

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Source: Euronews

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