India's missing children

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In India, a child goes missing every eight minutes. BBC South Asia Correspondent Rajini Vaidyanathan meets the family of one of those children and follows their attempts to trace their daughter. It’s a journey that takes us into the murky world of human trafficking, where children are bought and sold as commodities – forced to work long hours in factories, brothels or as domestic servants. And far from slowing the trade, the Coronavirus has fuelled demand for child labour and led to an increase in child trafficking as ‘middle-men’ target communities worst-hit by the pandemic.

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0:00.0	Every time I open a newspaper in India I see adverts for missing children.
0:07.0	On this one page alone, the faces of eight young boys and girls who've still not been found. The adverts are usually placed by the
0:15.1	local police on behalf of parents looking for their children.
0:18.6	General public is hereby informed that a girl namely
0:24.6	Dippika has been reported kidnapped since 14th April 2019 from Delhi age 15
0:30.4	height five feet face now namely Rifdi, has been missing or kidnapped since 15th of May 2018.
0:38.0	Sex female, age 17.
0:41.0	Name Hinner, sex girl, age. Age 17. Name Inner.
0:43.0	Sex Girl.
0:44.0	Age around five years.
0:46.0	Missing since 12 May 2013.
0:49.0	Last scene wearing a red frog and red budget.
0:52.0	In India, a child goes missing. seen wearing a red frog and red pajev.
0:53.0	In India, a child goes missing every eight minutes.
0:56.0	Most are trafficked into forced labour or sex work.
0:59.0	I'm Regina Vaidin Arban, South Asia correspondent for the BBC.
1:04.0	And one thing that struck me while covering India
1:07.0	is how common it is to see young children working.
1:10.0	In homes, on the street, how do they end up there, and why is it just accepted?
1:16.0	For the BBC World Service, I've spent months trying to trace one of India's missing children.
1:23.7	It's a story that takes us into the murky world of exploitation,
1:27.8	a children abort and sold.
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