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25 Aug. 2013
Despite several steps taken by the Mizoram government, human
trafficking is very much active in the state, revealed a latest study
conducted by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
Human traffickers, the report says, employ agents in rural areas of
Mizoram to lure Myanmarese nationals living near the border into India
through the porous boundary.
The UNODC report, while praising the efforts of the Mizoram
government on the issue of human trafficking, said the traffickers have
accomplices in villages and lured in rural folks from Myanmar by
promising them lucrative jobs outside the state.
The traffickers also have agents inside Myanmar, especially those
near the Mizoram border, to help people cross the 404-km-long porous
international border, the report said.
The report added that many Myanmarese nationals trafficked via
Mizoram are either forced to work as unpaid domestic helps or sex
workers.
Mizoram is the first state in the northeast to formulate a ‘Victims
of Crime Compensation Scheme’, the UNODC report said. It added that the
scheme was formulated in 2011 to ensure that the victims of human
trafficking were rehabilitated.
The burden of financial assistance for the victims of human trafficking is shared by the Centre and the state government.
The government also constituted anti-human trafficking units, which
organize workshops and trainings to create awareness on the issue. The
officials of these units have rescued several victims of human
trafficking from different places including Goa, Mumbai, Haryana and
Delhi.
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