Social media, online ads making sex trafficking easier, report that studied cases in Goa suggests

A “source state”, according to the authors, is the authorities from wherever the unfortunate of enactment trafficking was trafficked to Goa and does not needfully mean the spot to which she primitively belongs.

The survey says that a full of 172 women and insignificant girls were rescued from quality and enactment trafficking rings betwixt June 2019 and July 2024. Of these, 138 were of Indian root from implicit 20 states portion 34 hailed from Bangladesh, Bhutan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Nepal, Uganda and Uzbekistan.

Of the rescued, 157 were wrong the 18 to 35 property group, portion lone 4 were minors.

The study says that the modus operandi and patterns of trafficking person go much “organised” and the advancement of societal media sites and online platforms for soliciting and connection has made it easier for the traffickers to support secrecy.

A important fig of women were trafficked to Goa “under the pretence of jobs successful clubs, bars, hotels, and casinos, wherever they were promised roles arsenic waitresses, dancers, oregon companions to clients, particularly tourists” and past coerced into commercialized enactment activities, it says.

“The large root areas – Maharashtra, West Bengal, Delhi, Nepal and Bangladesh – stay unchanged. The recently emerging areas are Uttar Pradesh for interior trafficking and Kenya and Uganda for cross-border trafficking. Goa is becoming a destination for enactment trafficking besides due to the fact that the request is precocious and the outgo and moving conditions are good,” the study says.

It argues that the victims, successful astir cases, were the superior breadwinners for their families, managing their households connected humble incomes, who mislaid their jobs during the pandemic and were forced to instrumentality loans to survive.

According to the study, online advertisements for commercialized intersexual activities successful Goa person contributed to the emergence successful enactment trafficking due to the fact that they “enable” traffickers and buyers to stay anonymous.

Speaking astatine the event, Chief Minister Sawant said the authorities is strengthening borderline information with the neighbouring states to dismantle the trafficking networks successful coordination with each the agencies.