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Trafficking of Missing Children

Trans-border effort must for prevention

Workshop told

Staff Correspondent
An integrated and technology-based trans-border approach is necessary to protect missing children from being trafficked and abused, said participants of a national consultation workshop yesterday.
The workshop was held at a hotel in the capital to discuss and share ideas on Plan International Bangladesh's "Missing Child Alert (MCA) Project".
Plan International Bangladesh and South Asia Initiative to End violence Against Children, Bangladesh chapter jointly organised the workshop with the theme "Every missing child could be a living story of modern slavery".
Ashish Damle, the regional project manager, introduced the three-year project, which will be implemented simultaneously in Bangladesh, Nepal and India.
He explained that most missing children in Bangladesh and Nepal end up being trafficked to India where they often become victims of sexual exploitation, worst forms of child labour, and organ selling.
Sometimes children are trafficked to other countries like the Middle-Eastern ones through India, he added.
Damle told The Daily Star that the data on missing children and the number of children trafficked each year from Bangladesh and India was unreliable.
"Last year, 760 children of Bangladeshi origin were rescued from Mumbai, New Delhi, Kolkata, Hyderabad and Bangalore," he said, adding that other Indian cities might also have children trafficked from Bangladesh.
The project with its technology-based uniform case management approach, wherein data of both missing and rescued children would be uploaded, would help identify, trace, rescue, repatriate and rehabilitate missing children,
he explained.
Bangladeshi NGO Dnet would develop the database system, while Dhaka Ahsania Mission would run the campaign for awareness about cross-border trafficking.
The pilot phase of the project that commenced in 2012 would publish a study on "Disclosure by Survivors of Trafficking" in October, said Damle.
Prof Ishrat Shamim, president of the Centre for Women and Children Studies, and Tariq-ul-Islam, secretary to the women and children affairs ministry, among others, spoke.