Growing number of Bangladeshi women in Indian brothels

[HariPrasad]

South Asia is the fastest-growing region for human trafficking in the world
The number of Bangladeshi women being forced into prostitution in India has been increasing at a worrying rate. These women were mostly cajoled into travelling to India – sometimes illegally – with promises of well-paid jobs.

Bangladesh High Commissioner to India Syed Moazzem Ali recently wrote to Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal about an increase in trafficked Bangladeshi girls and women to India.

Ali requested Dhaka to take necessary steps, reports Bangla Tribune.

He noted that women and children of all ages are being trafficked to India mostly from Jessore, Satkhira, Khulna, Bagerhat, Kushtia and southern districts.

They are sold to various brothels or pimps in Kolkata, Mumbai, Goa, and Pune, among other Indian cities.

Also Read- Bangladesh downgraded in US human trafficking report

The conditions of West Bengal and other northeastern Indian states are somewhat similar to Bangladesh. However, the number of women from those states being forced into prostitution is less compared to Bangladesh because those states successfully raised public awareness among the people, he added.

Bangladesh’s Deputy High Commissioner in Mumbai Samina Naz said: “From 2014 to March 2017, we have issued travel permits to more than 350 Bangladeshi women for going back to Bangladesh.”

She said they were processing travel permits of a number of other women.

“Whenever we are informed about such victims, we immediately contact the Indian authorities and take initiatives to send them home,” she added.

A diplomat, declining to be named, said in cases where the victims get pregnant or give birth to a child, they register the child’s birth certificate mentioning that the father is an Indian national.

The diplomat said this humanitarian issue should be discussed in Bangladesh-India bilateral talks.

Indian charity Prerana said 128 out of 213 children of sex workers enrolled at their night care center in Mumbai’s Kamathipura red-light district from 2010-15 had a Bengali-speaking mother, Thomson Reuters Foundation reported.

Similar increases have been seen in other parts of the city. Trafficked Bangladeshi women in Mumbai are often too afraid and ignorant about their rights to seek help.

South Asia is the fastest-growing region for human trafficking in the world, and the second-largest after Southeast Asia, according to the UN Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC).

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The underground human trafficking human trafficking trade makes it difficult to determine the number of people trafficked within South Asia every year.

It is believed that the number is no less than 150,000 and rising given that the lucrative criminal trade is worth an estimated $2 billion a year in Asia.

A government official, seeking anonymity, said: “Bangladeshi women are lured to India [with false promises] but when these women are caught, they do not want to admit that.”

In the last six months, only 150-200 people were handed over to police while crossing the border illegally in different areas of Jessore and one-third of those apprehended were women.

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) Jessore Sector Commander Brig Gen Kazi Toufiqul Islam said in March last year, Indian Border Security Force organised a seminar on human trafficking and invited the BGB.

“Two Indian NGOs presented their research articles on Bangladeshi women in various Indian brothels,” he said.

It is believed that the number of Bangladeshi-origin people in India is more than 3 million and hundreds of others cross the border porous 4,000km border illegally every day, according to Reuters.

Human traffickers pray on the poor rural communities with promises of good jobs and a better life.

High Commissioner Moazzem Ali also mentioned that the trafficking of women and children put a dent on the country’s image when it was being led to prosperity under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Human trafficking has been a headache for both Dhaka and Delhi. In 2015, the two neighbours signed an agreement to strengthen cooperation and information sharing to ensure faster investigations and prosecutions of traffickers.

A dismaying report by the US State Department says the human trafficking situation in Bangladesh has gotten worse.

The US Trafficking in Persons Report 2017 has downgraded Bangladesh as the government is yet to fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking.

http://www.dhakatribune.com/banglad...ing-number-bangladeshi-women-indian-brothels/

Very sad. This girls should be given proper tarining in any profession and ensure their settlement.

 

[Afzal2010]

Afrikaner,,indigenous white ppl of sAfrica
So what do u make out of India Pakistan hatred?

Frankly, I believe that it is stupid my friend. We had similar hatred here in SAfrica when we got democracy but in a matter of 20 years, we've learned that we cannot live without each other, and we've opened our borders to our neighbors. Progress can only be achieved in a happy hood or else you will have a South Asian situation..many poor nations who are armed to the teeth

 

[padamchen]

Doc, how does a practically 10th generation SAfrican who has Gujju, Sindhi and Afrikaner ancestry become "an Indian Gujju" ?

Yeah, we revere Gandhi here

Same way we call 10th generation spin bowlers in the West Indian cricket team Indian Thambis.

How do bloodlines of thousands of years change in a few generations?

Cheers, Doc

 

[Afzal2010]

Same way we call 10th generation spin bowlers in the West Indian cricket team Indian Thambis.

How do bloodlines of thousands of years change in a few generations?

Cheers, Doc

I hear you but fact of the matter is that apart from very sparse Arabic due to my Islamic faith, I do not speak any other languages save for the usual SAfrican ones of isiZulu, Afrikaans and English offcourse. My culture is SAfrican hence my shock at the attitudes displayed by South Asian brownies here when it comes to the issue of women abuse and war etc

 

[padamchen]

I hear you but fact of the matter is that apart from very sparse Arabic due to my Islamic faith, I do not speak any other languages save for the usual SAfrican ones of isiZulu, Afrikaans and English offcourse. My culture is SAfrican hence my shock at the attitudes displayed by South Asian brownies here when it comes to the issue of women abuse and war etc

Yes I know buddy. I have a couple of similar African surgeon friends .... who stare blankly when I break into Hindi with them.

Cheers, Doc

 

[PAKISTANFOREVER]

Sighhh ... so many inconsistencies, am struggling to decide where to begin.

Ok the easiest bit first. Are you a born Muslim or a convert? If the former (which most of you would be now), then there was no decision per se. You were born into a faith and are continuing to practice it.

What I was referring to was your ancestors who were not born Muslims but became Muslim.

Now the looks bit. You look as different to Indians as Indians look to other Indians. A line drawn on a map by an Angrez did not magically change your Indic genes. Unless you are of pureblood Iranic bloodlines west of the Indus.

Now back to the conquered bit.

How do you conquer what you've always lived on? You broke away and called yourselves something different in an effort to completely cut all links with what you saw as a Hindu identity and past. That's the basic crux.

Cheers, Doc

You do know that the VAST majority of the conquerers did not return to their native homelands but were rather absorbed and assimilated into modern day Pakistani people and culture. That is ONE of many reasons why modern day Pakistanis look so different to modern day indians. I have lived 35 years in London, UK (all my life) and I see these noticeable racial differences between these 2 all the time. Although indians may slightly vary in terms of looks between different groups, these racial and physical dufferences are no way near as huge as they are between Pakistanis and indians as a whole. As well as religion, these unbridgeable racial differences were part of the reason why Pakistan and then ultimately bangladesh were created.

The answer is obvious,,,ppl of tht region got pumped repeatedly by every other foreign force coz they werent competent enuff to defend thr homelands,,,throughout history they were ruled by foreigners,,n hence the minor difference in looks,,but sadly for u all that pupmping throughout the centuries wasnt enuff to pump out the bhayya gene.
Ppl of Fata,nwfp r mostly of afghan origin unlike bhayya pakistanis.
Ps-i know,i know,,,despite being 7times smaller Pakistan developed nukes,,PakStronk!
KEEP HATING INDIA

Well at least that "pumping" made sure that our race physically fundamentally changed forever and we are not the most ugliest and physically repuslive race on the planet At least members of our race don't resemble chimpanzees or what looks like the missing link between apes and humanity.........

 

[TopCat]

Most of them actually were prostitutes themselves in BD. As the market is very bad they try to go to the haven prostitution.
Keep them there.

 

[Imran Khan]

Guys some humanity please .a little sense of being a human for god sake . Sorry bd members and feel sorry for poor humans whom sold themselves for basic needs .

 

[halupridol]

Well at least that "pumping" made sure that our race physically fundamentally changed forever and we are not the most ugliest and physically repuslive race on the planet At least members of our race don't resemble chimpanzees or what looks like the missing link between apes and humanity.........

OK Bhayyaforever, keep telling tht to urslf

 

[padamchen]

You do know that the VAST majority of the conquerers did not return to their native homelands but were rather absorbed and assimilated into modern day Pakistani people and culture. That is ONE of many reasons why modern day Pakistanis look so different to modern day indians. I have lived 35 years in London, UK (all my life) and I see these noticeable racial differences between these 2 all the time. Although indians may slightly vary in terms of looks between different groups, these racial and physical dufferences are no way near as huge as they are between Pakistanis and indians as a whole. As well as religion, these unbridgeable racial differences were part of the reason why Pakistan and then ultimately bangladesh were created.






Well at least that "pumping" made sure that our race physically fundamentally changed forever and we are not the most ugliest and physically repuslive race on the planet At least members of our race don't resemble chimpanzees or what looks like the missing link between apes and humanity.........

Granted, every foreign soldier of every Muslim invading army stayed behind and took a/many Indian (Pakistani) wives.

Would you hazard a guess on the impact of let's say a hundred thousand Perso-Turks and Arabs on the gene pool of a continent?

Please ....

Cheers, Doc

 

[Nexus]

Well the government has its priorities wrong.

Instead of the common man. They are serving a few privileged power grabbers.

Its the same in India as well. Just do a simple google search of Indian truck driver aids epidemic to understand your problem.

Just because the government is rich doesn't mean the people are. It will only get worse with uncontrolled Capitalism.

you know nothing about ground realities of India. since i was a small kid i have seen Modi developing my homeland Gujarat. when i was a kid my city was like a half grown town, now it's 21th Fastest Growing Economy/city in Asia. with new flyovers, world-class hospitals, clean Broad Roads and "Metro Bus"/BRTS.

you will not find a single person from my Region Kathiyawar or Kutchh or even Anhilwar who hates Modi. also, now we are receiving Water of Narmada River to Dams of our semi Arid Regions.

A river that divides North West Region of India and Deccan Peninsula is becoming our Lifeline...

 

[PAKISTANFOREVER]

Most of them actually were prostitutes themselves in BD. As the market is very bad they try to go to the haven prostitution.
Keep them there.

OK Bhayyaforever, keep telling tht to urslf

Oh dear! Another sufferer of "lesser men" syndrome that is so common to men of the indian persuasion and biology due to their inherent physical defiencies :

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6161691.stm

m.mensxp.com/special-features/today/26422-80-countries-their-average-penis-sizes-indians-have-the-second-smallest-penis-

 

[El Sidd]

you know nothing about ground realities of India. since i was a small kid i have seen Modi developing my homeland Gujarat. when i was a kid my city was like a half grown town, now it's 21th Fastest Growing Economy/city in Asia. with new flyovers, world-class hospitals, clean Broad Roads and "Metro Bus"/BRTS.

you will not find a single person from my Region Kathiyawar or Kutchh or even Anhilwar who hates Modi. also, now we are receiving Water of Narmada River to Dams of our semi Arid Regions.

A river that divides North West Region of India and Deccan Peninsula is becoming our Lifeline...

dude no where in my post mentions the holy Modi nor the Gujjurat

I only mentioned a report i read which highlighted the plight of women and the ticking bomb of aids epidemic in India.

talk about being paranoid

 

[PAKISTANFOREVER]

Granted, every foreign soldier of every Muslim invading army stayed behind and took a/many Indian (Pakistani) wives.

Would you hazard a guess on the impact of let's say a hundred thousand Perso-Turks and Arabs on the gene pool of a continent?

Please ....

Cheers, Doc

Who knows but that doesn't explain why the majority of Pakistanis look so physically different to indians. Islam, invasions from the Middle East and beyond, climate changes etc, none can completely explain or dismiss this reality.

 

[Nexus]

dude no where in my post mentions the holy Modi nor the Gujjurat

I only mentioned a report i read which highlighted the plight of women and the ticking bomb of aids epidemic in India.

talk about being paranoid

i know what you were talking about, dont try to hied behind excuses now. Gujarat,Maharashtra,North and south are the main economic and cultural powerhouses of India now. also there regions are the one who receives large Amount of foreign Tourists. when you talk about India, you talk about these regions.