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CHILD MARRIAGE: THE UGLY REALITY OF 21ST CENTURY

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 " The discrimination against women begins from womb  and ends with tomb." In India, Marriage is considered as one of the most important social institutions through which society perpetuates as it is a means of establishing family relations. This social institution is expressed in many forms of rituals and ceremonies.  One such way is child marriage. Child marriage is considered as one of the burning and hot issues of Indian society. It is formal or informal union before age 18. It is a violation of  children’s human rights and a form of gender-based violence that leaves physical, psychological and emotional scars for life . It robs children of their childhood and  disrupts their education and drives vulnerability to violence, discrimination and abuse. One another form of practice of child marriage is that in which the parents of the would-be bride and groom arrange a future marriage. In this kind of marriage both, the girl and th...

HUMAN TRAFFICKING: MODERN DAY SLAVERY

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  What freedom are we to find  when our restless minds are enslaved under the chains  of human trafficking? Across the world, millions of women and girls live in the long shadows of human trafficking. Whether ensnared by force, coercion, or deception, they live in limbo, in fear, in pain. Human trafficking is a global and domestic human rights issue that is characterized by economic exploitation. It is defined as the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring  or receipt of people through force, fraud or deception, with the aim of exploiting them for profit.  People may be trafficked for various purposes, such as forced labor , sexual exploitation, criminal activity, and forced marriage. Sometimes sold by a family member or an acquaintance, sometimes lured by false promises of education and a "better" life — the reality is that these trafficked and exploited children are held in slave-like conditions without enough food, shelter or clothing, an...