Report claims Indian children trafficked to Bahrain

Indian ambassador Balkrishna Shetty has promised to investigate claims that Indian women and children are being trafficked to Bahrain and forced into prostitution and pornography. The claim which was made in a recent Indian Institute of Social Sciences report on human trafficking in India has prompted several NGOs to call for a government investigation. The report claims that women and girls as young as 11 are being told they will be able to work as domestic servants or in factories, but in fact are sold into prostitution in Bahrain, Dubai and Oman as well as South Africa, Kenya and Thailand.
Sankar Sen, head of the Institute of Social Sciences’ human rights wing said “India is one of the most affected countries. The women and children are bought here and sent to some Middle Eastern countries, including Bahrain,”