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- Title
India - Brides for Sale - Often Become Slaves Thousands of girls and women in India are sold into marriage and often face a lifetime of abuse and hardship.
- Abstract
The article looks at India's slave brides, girls and women sold into marriages and face abuse and hardship for lifetime. It mentions that human traffickers are kidnapping women and selling in Indian states like Haryana which has shortage of women due to sex-selective abortions and female infanticide. It mentions views of Poonam Muttreja, executive director of the Population Foundation of India, on the same.
- Subjects
SLAVE trade; HUMAN trafficking; KIDNAPPING; ABORTION; INFANTICIDE; MUTTREJA, Poonam
- Publication
Pakistan Journal of Women's Studies: Alam-e-Niswan, 2016, Vol 23, Issue 2, p142
- ISSN
1024-1256
- Publication type
Article