How coronavirus is triggering cases of child trafficking
A 15-year-old girl from West Bengal has been missing since an unknown person befriended her on Facebook. Last week, the Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights rescued nine child labourers working at several scrap shops in North East Delhi’s Mustafabad. In June, a petition filed in the Supreme Court by Bachpan Bachao Andolan, an NGO headed by Nobel Prize laureate Kailash Satyarthi said the opening of the lockdown would see a massive spurt in the cases of child trafficking. “The dilution of labour laws by some states in the midst of the Covid-19 lockdown must be reviewed and rescinded immediately since doing away with crucial safeguards is likely to lead to a spike in the incidence of child labour and child trafficking while deepening exploitation and abuse of workers,” a Kailash Satyarthi Children's Foundation report based on a study conducted in some of India's rural areas has recommended. WEST BENGAL The ensuing lockdown due to the pandemic coupled with cyclone has led to a spurt in cases of child trafficking and child marriage in the eastern state.
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