Kamau Stokes
05 Human Geo.
December 5, 2010
3 of India’s Biggest Problems
India has a major problem of Human Trafficking, Child Exploitation and Forced Labor. Human trafficking is a huge issue all throughout India. Men and boys also women and girls are trafficked within India, but women and girls are most vulnerable to trafficking into the sex trade. The majority of these women and young girls are poor, come from landless families, and most of them come from Dalit, which is known as “untouchables”, Adivasi, which is the low caste community. `Nobody knows the profile of traffickers but it is believed that it may be family members or friends, brothel owners and brokers, community leaders, women in sex-work or people in powerful positions such as police and other government employees. Police have gathered data and have found out that 50% of the traffickers are women. The purpose of this act is for forced prostitution or marriage. Child exploitation in India is another big issue. In Northern India child exploitation is an accepted practice by their population as a necessity to alleviate poverty. Carpenters and jobs of low quality pay low wages to child laborers and make them work long hours in the worst conditions. Many of the children who work there are migrants and their family depends on their income to help them. Forced labor is most prevalent to India out of the entire world. Forced labor is just another way of saying slavery. The workers are threatened to work or else they will be punished. The food we eat every day is forced labor. In India, between 40% and 50% of forced labor victims are children. Mainly men or women who are in debt are forced to work as brick kilns, rice mills, and factory workers, often hard back-breaking work. If they cannot pay off their debt they might sell their children to whoever they are working for or whoever they owe money to. In India an estimated 15 million children are working in bonded labor is much better than forced labor.
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