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IJM Kolkata, Police Rescue Two Girls "Trapped In A World Of Darkness"

Mon, 11/12/2012

KOLKATA, INDIA – On November 1, 2012, Kolkata police called IJM for assistance with an urgent rescue operation, two staff members mobilized immediately. They met over a dozen police officers at a safe meeting point, then travelled together to the house where they believed two teenage girls had been trafficked for sexual exploitation.

The rescue team entered the house and easily found the small room where both girls had been sold for sex. A single mattress was on the floor; several other mattresses leaned against the wall in the otherwise empty room.

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IJM Kenya: Man Convicted For Raping Two Girls, Both Moving Forward In University

Mon, 11/05/2012

NAIROBI, KENYA: The crime was brutal – a group of school friends violently robbed by a gang, two of the young girls raped. IJM Kenya took on the case, working tirelessly to secure justice for Etana* and Mara.* But as the months went by and three of the four men in the gang were acquitted, justice seemed cruelly out of reach.

Four years ago, Etana and Mara had joined schoolmates for an evening hike in the hills around Nairobi. A group of men surprised the students and – armed with crude weapons – robbed them and chased the boys away.

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Girl Rescued From Dark Brothel During Daytime Operation In Kolkata

Fri, 11/02/2012

KOLKATA, INDIA – On a Thursday afternoon in October, Kolkata Police called IJM for assistance with an urgent operation in Kolkata's major red-light district. An IJM social worker and lawyer left immediately to meet the police, determined to find and rescue a girl who they believed had been trafficked there.

The police led the way to a brothel, which was dark, but for ominous red lights inside. Since it was daytime, brothel keepers and madams were asleep, many lying in the hallways.

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IJM, Police Rescue Three Girls From Brothel In One Of Kolkata's Red-Light Districts

Wed, 10/31/2012

KOLKATA, INDIA – In the early morning light, IJM staff and local police walked through one of Kolkata's largest red-light districts. They entered a dark brothel with several rooms on multiple stories, all facing an empty plaza in the middle.

The team went straight to a room on the first floor, where they believed girls trafficked from Nepal were being sold for sex.

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Two Convictions In Mumbai Are Significant Milestones For One Trafficking Survivor

Fri, 10/26/2012

MUMBAI, INDIA – This week, a brothel owner and manager were convicted and sentenced to prison for sex trafficking crimes. The conviction means the traffickers cannot exploit any more young women for sex, and it means justice for one of the survivors from their brothel.

Jansi* left her small village in search of work a few years ago. She went to Bangalore, a booming city in her home state of Karnataka. But she struggled to find good work, so she decided to go back to her old life. As she waited for the bus that would take her home, a man approached her.

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