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Article

31 Aug 2015

Author:
Anasuya S Basu, Hindustan Times

India: Assam's tea gardens become hunting ground for child traffickers

Children have gone missing from the gardens, feared to have been lured by traffickers active in an economically-backward region. And the tea workers have turned out to be the most vulnerable to trafficking, according to activists and the government...In Assam, 9,500 children went missing from different places between 2007 and June 2014. Only 3,840 children have been recovered so far.