NCRB data on human trafficking in Kashmir merely the tip of iceberg: NCW chief
Sharma acknowledged the goal of holding the workshop in Kashmir was to make people acutely aware of the menace of human trafficking.
SRINAGAR: The National Commission for Women (NCW) chairperson Rekha Sharma on Thursday acknowledged human trafficking elevated by 15.56 per cent in Jammu and Kashmir ultimate yr as compared with the 2021-22 financial yr nonetheless it is “just the tip of an iceberg”.
“In the last few years, we have seen in Kashmir also that women are getting targeted. The NCRB data shows that it has increased 15. 56 per cent last year compared to 2021-22. And this is just the tip of the iceberg because the data does not give the true picture,” Sharma acknowledged, ahead of the anti-human trafficking workshop organised by the NCW proper right here.
@NCWIndia’s National Seminar on Anti-Human Trafficking Awareness in collaboration with Social Welfare Dept, Govt of J&Okay & Jammu Kashmir Police within the current day. The seminar targets to convey collectively specialists, NGOs, & totally different stakeholders inside the fight in opposition to human trafficking. @sharmarekha pic.twitter.com/XZnniaTCyI
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Sharma acknowledged the goal of holding the workshop in Kashmir was to make people acutely aware of the menace of human trafficking.
“We must now work to save our daughters and our children. This is the main purpose of making it (workshop) happen in Kashmir,” she acknowledged.
“Human trafficking is a serious crime and it does not have boundaries whether it is Kashmir or Kanyakumari. This is prevalent everywhere. And sometimes, the victims of the trafficking do not even know that they are the victims,” Sharma acknowledged.
“The main problem is due to lack of awareness. This is our first of its kind programme in Jammu and Kashmir where all the forces — state commissions, NGOs — are together to make people aware, especially the students, that nobody is out of reach of this problem,” the NCW chief acknowledged.
Sharma acknowledged the women have been being trafficked beneath the pretext of being equipped well-paying jobs.
“They give false promises of jobs here, or elsewhere in India, but they don’t get paid properly and are abused. Even in Kashmir, trafficking through marriage has increased. Women are coming from West Bengal for jobs but then they are married forcibly to somebody who sexually abuses them,” she acknowledged, together with {{that a}} fast film on this matter might even be screened proper right here.
Asked when the Women’s Commission in Jammu and Kashmir could be restored, she acknowledged the Centre is planning one factor alongside these traces.
“I think the process is on. Otherwise, when the state assembly is there or the state government is there, they nominate the state commission but they (Centre) are thinking something out of the box,” she acknowledged with out giving further particulars.
