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Report: Over a Million Women in India Have Gone MIssing from 2019 to 2021
Breitbart ^ | 08/01/3023 | JOHN HAYWARD

Posted on 08/03/2023 7:19:37 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski

A report published by India’s Union Home Ministry last week revealed that over a million women and girls disappeared between 2019 and 2021. 250,000 of the disappearances involved girls under the age of 18.

Roughly 80,000 of the women went missing in the national capital of New Delhi.

India’s National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), which provided data for the report to parliament, blamed “forced marriage, domestic work, sexual exploitation, and child labor” plus “mental illness, miscommunication, misadventure, domestic violence, and being victim of a crime” as the main reasons for the huge number of missing women.

The NCRB said many of the women victimized by crime and abuse are killed by the perpetrators. Others commit suicide, but their families are reluctant to report the details to law enforcement agencies. Some of the missing women are thought to have been trafficked out of the country.

The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday quoted women’s rights activist Kavita Krishnan blaming the Indian government for not doing enough to “address the large-scale network of trafficking.”

“It is a chronic problem. There has never been a policy on the issue of disappearances,” Krishnan said…

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: human; slavery; slavetrade; trafficking
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Probably brought here.


21 posted on 08/03/2023 9:45:49 AM PDT by Hattie
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To: wildcard_redneck

>>No organized cult of killers has ever murdered as many people as the Thuggee. In the 1830s this Indian secret society strangled upward of 30,000 native people and travelers

Those are ROOKIE numbers compared to the 20th Century Communists and other totalitarians!

https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM


22 posted on 08/03/2023 10:26:37 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Jan_Sobieski
This is actual slavery, today, but the Lefties here only care about the slavery that ENDED 158 years ago.

23 posted on 08/03/2023 10:45:24 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: FreedomPoster
"Those are ROOKIE numbers compared to the 20th Century Communists and other totalitarians!"

True. But you have to admit it is very high on the creepy scale.


24 posted on 08/03/2023 11:38:46 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck (The Forever War is a crime against humanity)
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To: wildcard_redneck

No doubt. Another of the benefits of Western Colonialism was the elimination of the Thuggees.


25 posted on 08/03/2023 3:07:57 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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