By SRUTHI GOTTIPATI http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/17/hasina-kharbhih-raising-the-stakes-against-child-trafficking/ Hasina Kharbhih, 40, has spent the better part of her life working for human rights. She started a nonprofit, Impulse, and developed a comprehensive strategy to prevent child trafficking called the Meghalaya Model, which is being applied in eight Indian states. The activist, who is based in Shillong in...
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Rapes and molestation cases soar in Uttar Pradesh
Woman chief minister shrugs off reports as state is gaining notoriety by recording more cases than neighbouring New Delhi By Nilima Pathak, Correspondent, Published: 00:00 August 6, 2011 Women are the strength of the ruling Bahujan Samaj Party of Uttar Pradesh where gender crimes are on the rise. New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh state is...
Anti-human trafficking unit inaugurated
Anti-human trafficking unit inaugurated Posted on May 28, 2011 at 03:39am IST http://ibnlive.in.com/news/antihuman-trafficking-unit-inaugurated/154904-60-119.html BANGALORE: Under the police modernisation scheme, the State Government has approved the establishment of Anti-human Trafficking unit and it has started functioning from Friday. City Police Commissioner B G Jyothiprakash Mirji said that the unit will be working under the supervision...
Delhi is once again shock with the brutal murder of a tribal woman
New Delhi, the 25th May, 2011 A tribal women belonging to the Kuki-Chin community of Myanmar (Burma) was allegedly murdered by a Nigerian national named Innocent Nwayo at his residence in Uttam Nagar-II, here in the capital recently. The deceased body has been identified as Cecilia Chong, 23, who is married to Kam (name...
Some migrants face backlash after move to big cities in India
Some migrants face backlash after move to big cities in India Fri May 13 2011 By Rick Westhead South Asia Bureau Source NEW DELHI—From the moment Lawmkim moved to India’s teeming capital from her sleepy village three years ago, locals made their feelings clear about her arrival in the neighbourhood. “All the time people...
Girl rescued from the clutch of human trafficker
Girl rescued from the clutch of human trafficker Dwaipayan Ghosh, May 9, 2011, 09.55pm IST http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-05-09/delhi/29524869_1_girl-trafficker-nagaon-district NEW DELHI: A 16-year-old girl was rescued from the clutches of a human trafficker, who had lured her to accompany him from Assam to Delhi by promising to marry her. The anti-kidnapping squad of the crime branch...
Bringing the fringe to the mainstream
Bringing the fringe to the mainstream Man on a mission to stop discrimination against people from Northeast states By Nilima Pathak, Correspondent, Published: 08:38 March 12, 2011 http://gulfnews.com/news/world/india/bringing-the-fringe-to-the-mainstream-1.775131 Social activist Madhu Chandra’s mission is to stop crimes and racial discrimination against people of the Northeast states. Image Credit: Nilima Pathak/Gulf News New Delhi: Social...
LSR student from the North- East molested by cab driver in Capital
By Neetu Chandra in New Delhi Mail Today YET ANOTHER girl from the North- East has become a victim of molestation in the city. A student of Lady Shri Ram College was molested inside a moving taxi by the driver in New Friends Colony area in South East Delhi. Last week, the student was...
Call centre employee molested, beaten up
The victim, who is from Manipur, has identified two African men in police records as the perpetrators. The accused are at large A day after Delhi police arrested the fourth accused in the gang rape case of a BPO employee in the Capital, another woman from the northeast revealed to MiD DAY that two...
Northeastern girl molested in Chinese eatery
By: Atul Krishan Date: 2010-08-30 Place: Delhi Manager of Chinese restaurant and bar in Connaught Place assaults staffer for watching TV, attacks her with a fork Allegedly almost half the women sexually harassed in the national capital and its neighbourhood are from the northeast. And the numbers are only increasing. Mark of a monster:...