Women and Children Trafficking
Problem in Bangladesh
Mabrur Atiqi, Dhaka, 09 July: Human trafficking especially children and women
trafficking has become a major problem in Bangladesh. No country is immune from
human trafficking. Each year an estimated 60,000 to 80,000 women and children
are trafficked across national borders. In Bangladesh the crime of trafficking
is mainly committed against persons who are socially and economically
vulnerable.
It
is known that most of the women and children are sold as supplies of human
organs. And the traffickers use 20 main points in 16 south and south-western
districts of Bangladesh near the Indian boarder to run their trade. The main
trafficking route is the Dhaka-Mumbai-Karachi-Dubai route. There are people on
both sides of the Bangladesh-India boarder involved in this trafficking chain.
It
is very sorrowful matter that just like in other parts of Asia, Bangladeshi
girls from the villages are trafficked for about $1,000 and sold to the
whorehouses and Bangladeshi children are also largely trafficked to work in
dirty, difficult and dangerous jobs, get their body parts such as kidneys and
other internal organs or to become 'camel race jockeys' in the Arab Gulf
countries.
Human
trafficking is an offense under the Bangladesh legal system. Constitution of
the People's Republic of Bangladesh prohibits forced and compulsory labour. So,
the countrymen irrespective of colour and creed hope that such an inhuman and
cruel act of child and women trafficking must be stopped at any cost in
Bangladesh.
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