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The Documentary: India's missing children

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10/11/2020 GMT

India's missing children

BBC World Service - The Documentary, India's missing children

Rajini Vaidyanathan searches for one of the many Indian children trafficked into slavery.

Rajini Vaidyanathan searches for one of the many Indian children who’ve been trafficked into slavery and hears how the pandemic is fuelling demand for child labour.

In India, a child goes missing every eight minutes. BBC South Asia Correspondent Rajini Vaidyanathan meets the family of one of those children and follows their attempts to trace their daughter. It’s a journey that takes us into the murky world of human trafficking, where children are bought and sold as commodities – forced to work long hours in factories, brothels or as domestic servants. And far from slowing the trade, the Coronavirus has fuelled demand for child labour and led to an increase in child trafficking as ‘middle-men’ target communities worst-hit by the pandemic. 

(Photo: A girl puts her hand print on an installation during an awareness campaign program initiated by Delhi Police for those children who were missing and kidnapped. Credit: Biplov Bhuyan/Hindustan Times/Getty Images)

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