India's trafficking in cheap child labor is rampant due to the epidemic

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The continuous months of COVID-19 attack has made India's economy in a difficult situation, and made India's efforts in combating child labor and trafficking in children go back decades. Many families are forced to sell their children because they are in extreme poverty.

According to the report of CNN on October 26, in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, the police found that 19 children on the bus were trafficked during the night bus raid. The relevant departments said that since the outbreak of the epidemic, this situation has become much more common than before.

The authorities said that the youngest children they rescued during the epidemic were only 11 years old. According to Indian law, it is illegal for children under 14 to work, but the terrible economic situation caused by the epidemic has forced many children and adolescents into danger.

Mujib, 14, was one of the children rescued during a police raid. He said that he and several other boys were lured away from their village by an older man. The man gave his family 500 rupees, about 45 yuan, and promised to take them to Jaipur, about 1300 kilometers away from home, for vacation. Some boys, such as 15 year old Oman, have no choice but to sacrifice themselves voluntarily considering their family conditions.

Bihar is one of the poorest states in India and has a large floating population. For a family like Oman, which cannot see employment prospects and government assistance, it is simply because they are too desperate to let their children become workers.

Mishad, 12, was one of the boys rescued by the police during a raid on the bracelet factory. He said that his parents sold him to human traffickers for 1500 rupees, about 136 yuan. Mishad said that he was locked in a dirty room for five months and was not allowed to go out. He worked from morning to midnight every day, and then had food to pay his parents' debts.

Mishad also said that if he or other children could not meet the requirements of the bracelet factory, they would be beaten. In fact, the bracelet manufacturing industry is not allowed to employ children under the age of 18. Because it is dangerous, the paint melted on the burning coal needs to be treated.

Kailash Satyarsi, head of Save the Children Campaign, said that the organization and local authorities rescued 900 abducted children and arrested 70 traffickers between April and August this year.

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