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Bangladeshi unit to rescue victims of trafficking
Dhaka, May 11: The Bangladeshi government has set up a unit to gather intelligence on the trafficking of women and children and rescue victims before they are smuggled out of the country, a report said today.
Dhaka, May 11: The Bangladeshi government has set up a unit to gather intelligence on the trafficking of women and children and rescue victims before they are smuggled out of the country, a report said today.
The unit, which has already started work, would also exchange information with neighbouring India, monitor prosecutions, and develop a database of known traffickers and victims, agencies said.
Experts told the world social forum anti-globalisation meeting in the western Indian city of Bombay in January that each year some 3,000 women and children in South Asia are victims of trafficking, most of them from Nepal, Bangladesh and India.
Many girls end up in brothels in India or the Middle East while boys work as slave labourers or as camel jockeys, a favourite sport in the Gulf despite recent attempts to ban children under the age of 15 from riding.
A Bangladeshi non-governmental organisation in January released a study that said nearly 1,000 children were smuggled out of the country in a three-and-a-half year period to June 2003.
Bureau Report
Experts told the world social forum anti-globalisation meeting in the western Indian city of Bombay in January that each year some 3,000 women and children in South Asia are victims of trafficking, most of them from Nepal, Bangladesh and India.
Many girls end up in brothels in India or the Middle East while boys work as slave labourers or as camel jockeys, a favourite sport in the Gulf despite recent attempts to ban children under the age of 15 from riding.
A Bangladeshi non-governmental organisation in January released a study that said nearly 1,000 children were smuggled out of the country in a three-and-a-half year period to June 2003.
Bureau Report