Blog 7: India's Sex Slaves

Crime is different as we look across the world but in India, for these girls, the most hurtful crime is discrimination. Due to the lack of respect for women, as noted in the article, they are subjected to life without love and in the sex trafficking world. This article gives us a brief overview of how many girls, as young as 13, are taken from their families and homes to sex traffickers and brothels. They are now at a home that is aiding these young women into ways to get away from this world and do for themselves. If, at all possible, they want to return to their families but in many cases this is not possible because their families see them as disgrace to their families. In some cases their husbands owe a debt and the only way to pay that debt is for their wives to be sex slaves. Statistics show that 300,000 women have been exploited but only 3,000 rescued. The acts performed on  and to these women are too graphic and vulgar to be printed. According to Plan India, “It is not just poverty, but an overall neglect and discrimination of girls that makes them most vulnerable to exploitation and abuse." This is a major social issue not just in India but across the world. Most human traffickers go unnoticed and unpunished in societies such as these. This has been a social issue globally since before we can remember it just lacked the publicity needed to make a difference. Sex Trafficking is in virtually every country in the world with about 80% of its victims being female and nearly 50% being minors.

http://thecnnfreedomproject.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/10/indias-sex-slaves-face-lifelong-cycle-of-abuse/?hpt=wo_mid