19,000 Pakistani children have been trafficked to the United Arab Emirates. (LHRLA, Indrani Sinha, SANLAAP India, “Paper on Globalization and Human Rights”)

‘SANLAAP is a developmental organisation in West Bengal, India, working to correct social imbalances, which manifest in gender injustice and violence against children, youth and women. It works against the trafficking of children and women for commercial sexual exploitation and sexual abuse using a wide range of strategies: campaigns, advocacy and sensitisation of various stakeholders on the issue of trafficking on one hand, and rescue, rehabilitation, repatriation and socio-economic reintegration of trafficked persons on the other. SANLAAP engages youth as partners in all its endeavours.’