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?Equality Now has issued Women?s Action 30.1, India: The Demand for Sex Trafficking: Holding Commercial Sex Buyers Accountable?

By Ann Bartow

Government and NGO reports estimate that there are from hundreds of thousands to millions of women and girls prostituted in India, many of whom are victims of sex trafficking. The majority of women prostituted and trafficked within India are from ?lower? (scheduled) castes and many are girls, some brought into the sex industry as young as 13 years old. The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in March 2007 raised concerns with India about the sexual exploitation o read more

Full post as published by Feminist Law Professors on May 22, 2008 (boomark / email).