The Trauma of rehabilitation
How the Trafficking of Persons (Prevention, Protection and Rehabilitation) Bill has a utopian vision for rehabilitation of sex workers and child labourers that is likely to become a dystopian reality
Last week, the country awoke to alarming new revelations in the sordid scandal of the routine sexual abuse of 34 girls between the ages of 7 and 14 in an NGO-run, state-funded Balika Grih in Muzaffarpur, Bihar. One girl is rumoured to have been murdered while others were sedated at night in the guise of medical treatment only to wake up to abdominal pains from rape. This
