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children increasingly endure sex trafficking in small hotels, vehicles, huts, and private residences. Traffickers increasingly use websites, mobile applications, and online money transfers to facilitate commercial sex. Children continue to be subjected to sex trafficking in religious pilgrimage centers and by foreign travelers in tourist destinations. Many women and girls, predominately from Nepal and Bangladesh, and from Central Asia, Africa, and Asia, including Rohingya and other minority populations from Burma, are subjected to sex trafficking in India. Prime destinations for both Indian and foreign female trafficking victims include Kolkata, Mumbai, Delhi, Gujarat, Hyderabad, and along the India-Nepal border; Nepali women and girls are increasingly subjected to sex trafficking in Assam, and other cities such as Nagpur and Pune. Some corrupt law enforcement officers protect suspected traffickers and brothel owners from law enforcement efforts, take bribes from sex trafficking establishments and sexual services from victims, and tip off sex traffickers to impede rescue efforts. Some Nepali, Bangladeshi, Afghan, and Pakistani women and girls are subjected to both labor and sex trafficking in major Indian cities. Following the 2015 Nepal earthquakes, Nepali women who transit through India are increasingly subjected to trafficking in the Middle East and Africa.
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training. Difficulty in accessing health care is due to factors such as hospitals sending women to their husband for approval to get abortion, financial hurdles such as high fees for abortion and difficulty procuring identification documents as many sex workers live unstable lives, having trouble providing a proof of address. A Supreme Court verdict in 2021 directed that sex workers be provided Aadhar and ration without asking for proof of address, which made the situation better for sex workers. In government hospitals, sometimes it is not even doctors who do abortions for sex workers, but ward boys will do. Sex workers also lack privacy in hospitals because people think they are okay with anybody looking at their private parts. Transgender sex workers face even more discrimination than women sex workers due to doctors' lack of knowledge of transperson bodies, hospitals not having separate queues for transpeople and hospitals not assigning them doctors but rather rush them to testing centres.
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India is a source, destination, and transit country for women and children subjected to sex trafficking. Most of India's trafficking problem is internal, and those from the most disadvantaged social strata—economically, members of tribal communities—are most vulnerable. Thousands of unregulated work
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Reaching women who are working in brothels has proven to be quite difficult due to the sheltered and secluded nature of the work, where pimps, Mashis, and brothel-keepers often control access to the women and prevent their access to education, resulting in a low to modest literacy rate for many sex
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In 2009 the Supreme Court ruled that prostitution should be legalised and convened a panel to consider amending the law. In 2011 the Supreme Court held that "right to live with dignity" is a Constitutional right and issued an order relating to "creating conditions conducive for sex workers to work
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Not only HIV but other infection diseases have been decreased, examined data from 868 prevention projects—serving about 500,000 female sex workers—implemented between 1995 and 2008. The research found that reaching sex workers through prevention programs decreased HIV and syphilis infection rates
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when they are ill, being refused to be admitted to hospitals without HIV tests, being refused to conduct physical examination before prescribing medication. Surveys have found that sex workers prefer private health care providers over the government ones where they have some kind of sensitisation
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indicates that the majority of sex workers in India work as prostitutes due to lacking resources to support themselves or their children. Most do not choose this profession but out of necessity, often after the breakup of a marriage or after being disowned and thrown out of their homes by their
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Clauses in the ITPA relating to living off the earnings of a sex-worker are being challenged in court, together with criminalisation of brothels, prostitution around a notified public place, soliciting and the power given to a magistrate to evict sex-workers from their home and forbidding their
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Experts estimate millions of women and children are victims of sex trafficking in India. Traffickers use false promises of employment or arrange sham marriages within India or Gulf states and subject women and girls to sex trafficking. In addition to traditional red light districts, women and
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Government organisations like MDACS (Maharashtra District AIDS Control Society) have played a very prominent role in generating awareness on HIV/AIDS, through the assistance in providing free literature and organising street campaigns. There are several NGOs that work to prevent the spread of
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in the community. NACO (National AIDS Control Organisation), a government agency leads these NGOs. The Durbar Mahila Sumanwua Committee is a sex-workers' union based in Sonagachi, Kolkata, which has 65,000 members. They advocate for labour rights for sex workers, and they also fight against
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is not recognised in any law in India) can use her body in exchange for material benefit. In particular, the law forbids a sex worker to carry on her profession within 200 yards of a public place. Unlike as is the case with other professions, sex workers are not protected under normal
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Delhi-based woman film maker Shohini Ghosh made a documentary film "Tales of the Night Fairies" in 2002, interviewing five sex workers who are activists of the DMSC sex-worker union in Kolkata. DMSC fights against trafficking and advocates for labour rights for sex-workers.
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However, in 2012 the Central Government made a plea to the Supreme Court arguing that sex workers should not be allowed to pursue their trade under the constitutional "right to live with dignity". Government counsel contended that any such endorsement by the court would be
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interviewed a random sample of 160 sex workers in Calcutta: Of those, 23 claimed that they had come of their own accord, whereas the remaining 137 women claimed to have been introduced into the sex trade by agents. The breakdown was as follows:
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Much new knowledge on sex work in India came from the first major survey, in April 2011. This was performed by the Centre for Advocacy on Stigma and Marginalisation (CASAM), which is part of SANGRAM, a major NGO that deals with sex workers.
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Supreme Court of India; on May 19, 2022, upheld that everyone, including sex workers are guaranteed the right to dignity and life under Article 21 of Constitution of India. Thus, sex workers can not be harassed and arrested legally.
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The breakdown of the agents by sex were as follows: 76% of the agents were female and 24% were males. Over 80% of the agents bring young women into the profession were known people and not traffickers: neighbours, relatives, etc.
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of a public place or "notified area" (imprisonment of up to 3 months, point 7). The client may also be punished if the sex worker is below 18 years of age (from 7 to 10 years of imprisonment, no matter the age of the minor, point
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can not publish phone numbers to the public (imprisonment up to 6 months with fine, point 8). Sex workers are also punished for prostitution near any public place or notified area (imprisonment of up to 3 months with fine, point
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estimate there were 657,829 prostitutes in the country as of 2016. Other unofficial estimates have calculated India has roughly 3 million prostitutes. India is widely regarded as having one of the world's largest commercial
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A "public place" in context of this law includes places of public religious worship, educational institutions, hostels, hospitals etc. A "notified area" is a place which is declared to be "prostitution-free" by the
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for each British regiment stationed in India. They were licensed by military officials and were allowed to consort with soldiers only. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, thousands of women and girls from
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Prostitution in India manifests in various forms. The most notable instances where sex workers offer their services may include situations where these services are accessible under different disguises:
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of ITPA, which totally bans prostitution. Opposing counsel submitted that the Act only prohibited brothel activities and punitive action against pimps. The Supreme Court agreed to examine the plea.
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Some women and girls are by tradition born into prostitution to support the family. The Bachara Tribe, for example, follow this tradition with eldest daughters often expected to be prostitutes.
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Sex workers in India find it difficult to access health care and face discrimination, especially in government hospitals, based on their profession, such as being forced to take tests for
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Over the years, India saw a growing mandate to legalise prostitution, to avoid exploitation of sex workers and their children by middlemen and in the wake of a growing HIV/AIDS menace.
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are guilty of a crime. Any adult male living with a prostitute is assumed to be guilty unless he can prove otherwise (imprisonment of up to 2 years with fine, point 4).
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across the Indian subcontinent. The prostitutes who worked in such brothels were recruited from rural Indian families and paid directly by the British authorities. The
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set up in the early 16th century, and this Portuguese stronghold contained a community of Portuguese slaves. During the late 16th and 17th centuries the
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in India, with 35.47 percent of them entering the trade before the age of 18 years. The number of prostitutes rose by 50% between 1997 and 2004.
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services on online and on digital platforms: Online/phone-based sex-oriented conversations and exchanges through audio, images, video or texts.
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families. The children of sex workers are much more likely to get involved in this kind of work as well. A survey completed in 1988 by the
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Clients: A client is guilty of consorting with prostitutes and can be charged if he engages in sex acts with a sex worker within 200
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also testifies to the high esteem in which she was held in society. She appears through the ages in different incarnations from
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The law is vague on prostitution itself. The primary law dealing with the status of sex workers is the 1956 law referred to as
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women were arrested in India on prostitution charges for allegedly running two brothels masquerading as massage parlours.
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as a matter of accepting a necessary evil. The Cantonment Acts regulated and structured prostitution in the British
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placement agencies reportedly lure adults and children under false promises of employment into sex trafficking.
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to carry out a survey to determine the number of sex workers in the country willing to be rehabilitated.
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Over 40% of 484 prostituted girls rescued during major raids of brothels in Mumbai in 1996 were from
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are illegal. There are, however, many brothels illegally operating in Indian cities including
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Mahapatra, Bidhubhusan; Bhattacharya, Ruchira; Atmavilas, Yamini; Saggurti, Niranjan (2018).
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can be punished for sexual activity in proximity to a public place. Organised prostitution (
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There were an estimated two million female sex workers in the country in 1997. In 2007, the
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slaves to Goa. These were usually young Japanese women and girls brought or captured from
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In 2006 the Ministry of Women and Child Development put forward a bill aimed at reducing
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anybody is liable to be punished. A person who moves a person from one place to another (
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Private residences: The place, especially the house, in which a person lives or resides.
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Vejella, Shanti; Patel, Sangram Kishor; Saggurti, Niranjan; Prabhakar, Parimi (2016).
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Various fictional films have featured the subject of prostitution in India, including
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In 2013 there were reports of Afghan women being trafficked as prostitutes to India.
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give us a colourful description of her intimate connection with royal splendour. The
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Nag, Moni (2001). "Anthropological Perspectives on Prostitution and AIDS in India".
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had regulated prostitution in India prior to the 1860s. The British Raj enacted the
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among young pregnant women tested routinely at government prenatal health clinics.
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Prostitution and the Ends of Empire: Scale, Governmentalities, and Interwar India
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Irani Machado da Silva and Anuradha Sathiyaseelan (2019). Luca Cerniglia (ed.).
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which provided for about twelve to fifteen Indian women kept in brothels called
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of cities such as Mumbai developed at this time. The governments of many Indian
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A positive outcome of a prevention programme among prostitutes can be found in
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Sex Workers of India: Diversity in Practice of Prostitution and Ways of Life
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Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought
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Defining Girlhood in India: A Transnational History of Sexual Maturity Laws
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Adopting strategic approach for reaching out to inaccessible population viz
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and from other origins have been noted as working as prostitutes in India.
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in a "protective home" for any sex worker requesting assistance (point 21).
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HIV prevention programmes for female prostitutes in India highly effective
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re-entry. Other groups are lobbying parliament for amendments to the law.
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Rescued Women: The government is legally obligated to provide rescue and
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Young college student selling to brothel and visiting free of cost: 1
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Lover giving false hope of marriage or job and selling to brothel: 14
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Abstract WePeF6707F abstract, The XIV International AIDS Conference.
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Gathia, Joseph Anthony; Centre of Concern for Child Labour (1999).
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Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women's Lives
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Legalise prostitution in India to address problems of sex industry
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Buddhist monk later in her life - a story retold in a Hindi film,
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in the 2nd century BC, and tells the story of a famous courtesan,
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with a red-light district housing approximately 2,000 sex workers.
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Legalizing Sex: Sexual Minorities, AIDS, and Citizenship in India
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This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the
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Procuring and trafficking: A person who procures or attempts to
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is legal in India, but a number of related activities including
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Hotels: A commercial establishment offering lodging facilities.
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Brady, David; Biradavolu, Monica; Blankenship, Kim M. (2015).
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era. The tawaifs excelled in and contributed to music, dance (
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who catered to the nobility of India, particularly during the
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Buzdugan, Raluca; Halli, Shiva S.; Cowan, Frances M. (2009).
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Dangerous Sex, Invisible Labor: Sex Work and the Law in India
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Nobody Can Love You More: Life in Delhi's Red Light District
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Prostitution and Beyond: An Analysis of Sex Workers in India
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Broken Lives: Dalit Women and Girls in Prostitution in India
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highlight her auspicious presence as a symbol of good luck.
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US State Department Annual Human Rights Reports about India
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Close acquaintance giving false hope of marriage or job: 11
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At Risk: Indian Sexual Politics and the Global AIDS Crisis
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Most of the research done by the development organisation
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with dignity". The court directed the Central Government,
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who seduces or solicits shall be prosecuted. Similarly,
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literary tradition, and were considered an authority on
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Dalla, Rochelle L.; Kreimer, Lee M. (13 October 2016).
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The operation of brothels is officially prohibited (
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Antyajaa: Indian Journal of Women and Social Change
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BBC report on number of female sex workers in India
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New breed of elite call girls cater to India's rich
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Archived from 1761: 1759: 1008:Uzbek women go to India to work as prostitutes. 444:Surveys show there are an estimated 1.2 million 366:: A place where people go and pay for a massage. 322: 4969: 4503: 4412: 3348:"'Sex workers' clients shouldn't be penalised'" 2958:Sahni, Rohini; Shankar, V Kalyan (April 2011). 1618: 1414: 856:Unknown person/accidental meeting with pimp: 32 850:Neighbours as pimps (guardians not knowing): 19 460: 426:reported the presence of over 3 million female 335:: Buildings in which prostitutes are available. 7973: 6236: 5644:Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 4478: 3469: 3323:"Leader Article: Sex Workers Need Legal Cover" 1959: 1926: 788: 739:or live-in lovers who live off a prostitute's 711:. The main points of the PITA are as follows: 7959: 7251: 6844: 6365: 6173: 5005:Borders and Mobility in South Asia and Beyond 4812: 3761: 3503: 1756: 6102: 5240:Tropical Medicine & International Health 4863:Sinha, S. N.; Basu, Nripendra Kumer (1933). 4067:"Six Uzbekistan women held for prostitution" 4034: 3666: 3590:"The Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956" 3290: 3288: 2957: 2474:(2). Social Justice/Global Options: 161–84. 2461: 2295: 2258: 1845: 1843: 1715: 1709: 1591: 1392:"The Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956" 6328:Rape For Profit — Human Rights Watch Report 5073: 4833: 4780:Sahni, R.; Shankar, V.K.; Apte, H. (2008). 4148: 4146: 4144: 3648:. Ministry Of Women & Child Development 3320: 2546: 2495:"Living Conditions Of Sex Workers In India" 2184:"Nautch girls: Sahibs danced to their tune" 656:In practice ITSA is not commonly used. 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New Delhi: Inter-India Publications. 4339: 3842: 3820: 3186:"Gwalior trafficking gang sold over..." 2572: 2434: 2407: 2127: 1089:, or royal courtesan of the Kingdom of 847:Neighbour in connivance with parents: 7 424:Ministry of Women and Child Development 9178: 6073: 5002: 4250: 4224: 3584: 3582: 3373:"Leader Article: Sex Work Is No Crime" 3296:"Prostitution in India: Make it legal" 2829:Casciani, Dominic (10 December 2009). 2758: 2681:"Escorts Draw Customers To Delhi Bars" 2599: 1541: 1477: 1475: 955: 28: Prostitution legal and regulated 7947: 7239: 6832: 6353: 6215: 5641: 4253:"A fictional account of a true story" 3927: 3821:Deeksha, Johanna (21 December 2022). 3802:from the original on 21 December 2007 3556: 3554: 3499: 3497: 3236: 2705: 2547:Ram Ganesan, Sharmila (2 June 2023). 2492: 2363: 2329: 2229: 2154: 1587: 1539: 1537: 1535: 1533: 1531: 1529: 1527: 1525: 1523: 1521: 1297:Academy Award for Documentary Feature 693:Prevention of Immoral Trafficking Act 634:The Immoral Traffic (Suppression) Act 496:, Kolkata's red light district, 2005. 202:The culture of the performing art of 6273: 5766: 4895: 4867:. 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Sex trafficking in South Asia. 1564: 1547:"Top 10 Red Light Areas In India" 1381: 1049:Prostitution has been a theme in 1032:United States Department of State 473:, a red light district in Mumbai. 9163: 9151: 9139: 9127: 9115: 9088: 7219: 7210: 7209: 6012:10.1111/j.1747-4469.2008.00116.x 5253:10.1111/j.1365-3156.2009.02278.x 4865:History of Prostitution in India 4738:Rehman, M.U.; Singh, D. (2020). 4647:Murthy, L.; Seshu, M.S. (2014). 4628:Mukherji, Santosh Kumar (1986). 4497:10.1111/j.1943-0787.2009.01115.x 4309: 4244: 4218: 4200: 4186: 4174: 4111: 4035:Syed Nazakat (9 February 2013). 4016:. 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