If we sometimes complain about the practices of domestic agencies in the USA, then what should we do with this atrocity?
New Delhi: Minor girls are being trafficked and sold in cities as bonded labour and the rate for those exploiting them is about Rs 7,000 – 8,000 per girl. A special investigation by CNN-IBN revealed that the domestic workers, the backbone of most urban households, are often exploited and abused and is one of middle class worst kept secret.”I will not go back home without my daughter,” says a teary-eyed Mamuni, whose daughter went missing two years ago after being trafficked to Delhi on the promise that she would get a lucrative job as a domestic help.Like Mamuni, hundreds of tea garden workers from Assam are searching for their teenage daughters in Delhi. To trace such girls, CNN-IBN, along with members of NGO Bachpan Bachao Aandolan, joined a police raid at a placement agency in Delhis Shakurpur Basti. Click through for the full article…
via Minor girls sold to urban households as domestic workers-ibnlive.