Saturday, 25 Jan 2020 10:30 AM MYT
According to a survey by five lawyers in collaboration with anti-trafficking charity Sanjog, India awarded compensation to less than 100 victims of trafficking between 2011 and 2019. Of an estimated 20 million commercial sex workers in India, 16 million women and girls are victims of sex trafficking, according to charities working in India.
Yet the raft of schemes offer negligible help, anti-trafficking campaigners said, since most survivors lack the life skills and backing to benefit. “Going for the court hearings, hiring a lawyer will cost me a lot of money to start with,” the 25-year-old said in a phone interview from her home in West Bengal state.With heightened awareness key to the scheme’s success, Sunil Chauhan — director of the National Legal Services Authority — said more and better legal aid was being offered to survivors.
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