Humans Not For Sale by Prerana Maed in India
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- Society & Culture
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Human Trafficking is a form of slavery. It’s the buying and selling of human beings through force, fraud, deception or coercion or by such other criminal means to exploit them for commercial sex, bonded labour or by harvesting their organs and trading in it. Human trafficking is a fast growing crime across the globe.
On Humans Not For Sale by Prerana, we aim to create broader awareness around human trafficking for commercial sexual exploitation. We will help answer questions like - What is human trafficking? Is prostitution legal in India? How do the police conduct rescue operations? How do we help the rehabilitation of the victims? And more.
Prerana is a non-profit and civil society organisation that protects children born to prostituted women in red light areas and helps the women themselves towards their rehabilitation, social reintegration and to restore their dignity by safeguarding their rights.
For more information go to https://www.fighttrafficking.org/
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What is Human Trafficking?
Kashina Kareem, Assistant Director of Prerana and host of Humans Not For Sale unravels the truths and misconceptions around human trafficking with Dr Pravin Patkar, the co-founder of Prerana. We answer questions like, What happens when someone...
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What are destination crimes of Human Trafficking?
Destination crimes are the purpose for which individuals are trafficking.These include prostitution, slavery, servitude, bonded labor, indentured labor, organized beggary, human organ harvesting and trading, mail brides, sex tourism,...
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Is Prostitution Legal in India?
Co-founder of Prerana, Dr.Pravin Patkar helps us understand what is prostitution and commercial sexual exploitation and as a country how we deal with it. We answer questions like, Is prostitution legal in India? What is the Immoral Traffic...
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How has the HIV Epidemic and the Covid-19 Pandemic affected women in the sex trade?
In the late 1980s and early 1990s in India, HIV/AIDS epidemic was growing at an alarming rate and particularly in the red light areas in the country. Many women in the sex trade faced discrimination, stigma, and suffered due to the lack of proper...
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How is a victim of commercial sexual exploitation rescued?
In this episode Dr.Pravin Patkar, the co-founder of Prerana helps us understand what happens during search and rescue operations of victims of commercial sexual exploitation and the role of various stakeholders including civil society in these...
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What happens to a victim post-rescue?
In the late 90s and early 2000s mass raids were conducted to rescue women and girls in the red light areas. There was significant importance given to the rescue, while barely any regard to what happened to victims post their rescue. A lot of...