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A one-of-its-kind caravan campaign was kickstarted here on Saturday, to save young girls from traffickers and flesh trade.As part of the global initiative to stop trafficking, Prajwala, a city-based anti-trafficking organisation in collaboration with the US Consulate General is organising ‘Swaraksha’, a five-month long campaign in each of the 53 districts of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Odisha states. The main aim of the campaign is to reach over 13 crore people and create awareness among communities on the dangers of human trafficking.High Court Justice S V Bhatt flagged off the caravan and pledged his support to the initiative. “This battle cannot be fought alone. We on behalf of State Legal Service Authority, want to offer the services of our paralegal volunteers. In both the states we have as many as 1,500 volunteers, who are trained to provide basic procedures and know what steps to be followed in case of medical situations. Also, if need arises, these volunteers can provide legal help if any inconvenience is caused by police or others,” Bhatt said. In order to send out a loud message to all the criminals involved in this flesh trade that the nation is united in fighting this crime, Bhatt advised the organisers to start parallel caravans across the length and breadth of the country, which could meet on a particular day at a center point and show the strength of the campaign. Starting from Saturday, Prajwala activists accompanied by survivors of trafficking will travel in the caravan and a series of programmes would be conducted every day. Documentary films on trafficking would be screened and debates held to alert communities on how the network of human smugglers operates and modus operandi they have adopted to trap boys and girls. “We want to motivate communities to protect themselves and giving them the tools to say ‘no’ to traffickers. We will also address men and boys to target the demand for commercial sexual exploitation,” Dr Sunitha Krishnan, founder of Prajwala said. Speaking about the signature campaign that the organisers are running against paid sex, Sunitha said that in the past 18 months they have collected over 3 lakh signatures. “We want men to sign a petition saying that they won’t buy sex, if paid sex is completely eradicated then 80 per cent of the trafficking issues can be solved. Also, in the next two years we want to extend our caravan campaign to all other states in the country and eradicate the flesh trade,” she said. “Even one woman, one man, or one child trafficked is too many. The US government is deeply committed to combating all forms of human trafficking. We can’t succeed in this fight unless we deeply collaborate together with the public,” Michael Mullins, Consul General, US Consulate of General,Hyderabad said.
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trafficking, young girls, Prajwala, Swaraksha, high court justice, awareness, campaign, human trafficking
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