Christian Body asks ‘Identify child trafficking–prone districts’ to TN government

A Christian body in Tamil Nadu has urged the state government to form people’s committees to identify child trafficking–prone districts for containing the violation of human rights of immoral child trafficking.

The Salem Don Bosco Anbu Illam Social Service Society–which directed a convention on child trafficking, admonished the Government to identify child trafficking–susceptible districts in Tamil Nadu and form people's committees to scrutinize the peril.

The convention attended by a group of child right activists pointed out the importance of preventing child–trafficking by various means such as:
opening child trafficking prevention centers established in bus stands at all district headquarters, formation of vigilance committees to check the inter–state trafficking and also wanting the issue to be discussed in the gram sabha meetings to let the representatives of local bodies be cognizant of the social evil.

The members also demanded a common forum for all groups that were actively involved fighting against child–trafficking in Tamil Nadu so that they could make combined effort to alert policemen, hotel employees, porters in bus stands and railway stations on child trafficking issues.

Meanwhile, Christian NGOs and churches worldwide waging war against child–trafficking are organizing awareness meetings and voluntary agencies to prevent and rescue the trafficked victims.

Women's rights organizations and NGOs estimate that more than
12,000 and perhaps as many as 50,000 women and children are
trafficked into the country annually from neighboring states for the sex
trade.