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India's missing children

India's missing children

Rajini Vaidyanathan searches for one of the many Indian children trafficked into slavery

The Documentary Podcast · BBC World Service

November 10, 202027m 40s

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Show Notes

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.