Dimapur, January 4 (MExN): All India Christian Council and North East Support Centre & Helpline has welcomed the CBI’s decision and initiative to fight human trafficking and to setup an anti-human trafficking unit at its headquarters. A press note issued by regional secretary of All India Christian Council, Madhu Chandra, who is also the spokesperson of North East Support Centre & Helpline stated that the decision to coordinate with NGOs involve in anti-human trafficking is a much
needed move.
“Human trafficking is biggest organised crime against humanity next to drug and arm trafficking. For India most vulnerable communities to human trafficking are Dalits and tribals from tribal dominated areas in different parts of India,” it stated.
It also mentioned that boys from North East India are targeted for bounded labourers in factories and girls are for sexual exploitation.
“While CBI takes up the initiative on this most challenging crime, it must also be noted that worse affected communities are Dalits and tribals, who have also been already facial social stigma under caste system for centuries. They have been in slavery under caste dominions and become worse when they are landed at the network of human trafficking,” the note stated.
