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Red Light Despatch Volume VIII, Issue 2 February 2015 Apne Aap Women Worldwide—Organizing Communities to End Sex Trafficking Red Light Despatch Volume VIII, Issue 2 February 2015 Delhi, Kolkata, and Forbesganj (Bihar) My Dreams Apne Aap helps Topsia women to secure a job in leather industry “To Own a House One Day ” -Gulabsah Khatoon —Dipshika Khan/ as dictated to Fazul Bihar: My name is Gulabsah Kolkata: My name is Dipsikha settlement beside the railway tracks. Khatoon and popularly known Khan. I live besides the railway Majority of those evicted ones were as Saavan. I am 17—year-old. tracks near Park Circus Railway sta- forced to relocate to a remote of tion, Kolkata, with my family mem- Recently, I started my Urdu south 24 pargana districts. education from Noorani Kay- bers. dain Madarsa. My father and Along with me, there are also fami- We lost our jobs. Also, were unable mother passed away, now I live lies of those who were evicted on 7th to find an alternate employment op- with my brother and his wife at - 12th November 2012 from the close tions to lead a life with dignity. There Red Light Area, Forbesganj proximity of the bridge, by the was no opportunity at all. Almost all (Bihar). ‗goons‘ hired by the government the doors were closed on our face, Recently, I joined as a member agency, who has constructed the especially when we had lost our iden- bridge with active support from the of Kishori Mandal group at Ant tification cards after the eviction. We ruling party and the police authority. Kanya Centre, Rampur. were on the verge of giving up on Before, my family did not allow Following the eviction, most of the life. Still, with some hope, we at- me to step out of my house ex- people from the area were not able to tended meeting with Apne Aap mem- cept while going to Madrasa. find any place to live as they did not bers on a regular basis. But, now after joining Kishori have enough money to even rent a Mandal, I go out everyday and hut made of plastic sheets. So they meet my friends at Rampur were forced to live under the open (Continued on page 6) Centre. sky and some of us got a temporary I also participate in various ac- tivities at the Kishori Mandal. Najafgarh girls attending classes at Head Office For instance, learnt stitching —Afsana/ as dictated to Jasneet Kaur and sewing, attended craft class, tuition, RLD session, open mike session, participated in rallies Delhi: My name is Afsana, and I live ing classes are held where girls like and human rights campaigns. in Sapera Basti, Dharampura me, who go to school, are helped (Najafgarh). I am 10-year-old, and I I am happy with my life, the with our homework and syllabus, and study in standard III in Nagar Nigam way it is going. I just hope it the ones who do not go to school are Prathmik Vidyalya, Najafgarh. I live remains uncomplicated and I with 4 sisters and 1 brother of mine, taught. Jasmine didi takes our class, get a chance to grow with my and I am the oldest among the sib- alongwith Shubhra didi. I really like friends around. lings. I take care of my younger them both, and the way they teach. I always have this nagging fear brother and sisters, and I also clean One day we went to the Lodhi Gar- that I might get into wrong the house every morning and eve- den for our class. We sat there in a things. My only wish and dream ning. circle, finished our homework and is to be able to save myself I have been coming to the Apne Aap community centre since two years in learnt some new words. Jasneet didi, from all the bad things happen- a row. Recently the activities were Mamta didi and Shashi didi accompa- ing around and live a healthy shifted to the Head Office in Lodhi nied us. life. I want to be able to work. Estate. We started going there by Walk freely in the market and travelling in a metro everyday. own a house one day. I have taken part in various activities with the organisation. Regular teach- (Continued on page 7) 2 Red Light Despatch ♦ Vol VIII, Issue 02 Apne Aap’s rescue operation telecasted in Public Broadcasting Service (PBS): What happens when the person forcing you into sexual slavery is your own mother Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro traveled to India rescue two teenage girls, one forced to prostitute herself, the recently to take a closer look at the issue and the often unsuc- other the daughter of this woman who owned the place. cessful efforts to combat the practice. Gupta says it‘s not uncommon for women to be involved in Fred De Sam Lazaro: In India‘s impoverished rural state of the business of trafficking. Many were themselves trafficked Bihar, people struggle to live off the land. One of the few when they were young. businesses that thrive is underground. Ruchira, what‘s — what‘s happening right now? Ruchira Gupta: This is one of the epicenters in the world for Ruchira: She says those girls are in school. So, I‘m saying, human trafficking. Little girls are trafficked into prostitu- fine. Take us to the school. We will go and meet the tion. They are put on buses and trucks and taken to the big girls. We will meet the — and suppose we meet the girls? brothels of Bombay, Delhi and Calcutta, but sometimes closer by. Fred: Are they arresting her? Fred: Ruchira Gupta and the human rights group she founded, Ruchira: The girl is suddenly found who she said was in Apne Aap, or On Our Own, is working to change the tradition school. So, let‘s go and see what‘s going on. of lower-caste women being channelled into the sex trade. Fred It was the 14-year-old daughter of the brothel The group sued authorities to provide schooling for girls res- owner. Until recently, she had been enrolled in school and cued from brothels. And it runs a shelter for the women and even lived in the Apne Aap shelter. But she was pulled out their daughters. But, first, Apne Aap has to work with the after seventh grade, being prepared, Gupta said, to go into the police to free the women. sex trade, a common tradition here passed from mother to daughter. Ruchira (through interpreter): We have to arrest the traf- ficker. Negotiations resumed with the chastened brothel keeper and her son, who, in another common practice, works as a pimp. Fred: Sometimes, that task is not easy. Ruchira (through interpreter): Do you want to be a pimp? Ruchira: The police is part of our society, and if the entire society believes that a girl is of less value, a low-caste girl is MAN (through interpreter): No, ma‘am. of even lesser value. So unless their mind-set changes, they Ruchira (through interpreter): So why are you doing don‘t even try to enforce the law, because they think this is not this? You‘re preparing a 14-year-old to prostitute her- a crime. self. You have another girl in the back, Sampatia, that you Fred: In this morning‘s raid, the exact location was kept se- have enslaved. Have you no shame? And what‘s the use of cret from the police until the last moment. Still, rumors of a you crying? Sampatia cries every day when customers come raid had spread, and brothels cleared out. and rape her. But Fatima Khatoon, an Apne Aap staffer who grew up and Fred: Sampatia, the girl being prostituted, wouldn‘t be pro- still lives in the red light district, is a key source of intelli- duced on this day, but Gupta was able to negotiate a deal for gence. She led the search to a home where she said a girl was the daughter, one more year in school. hidden. Not long after indignant protests from the homeown- Ruchira: Sampatia has agreed that she can study until class ers, a frightened young woman emerged. eight. Fred: As the young woman was led to a waiting car, Fatima The hope, the daughter will become stronger, more educated, Khatoon led the team to a brothel where she had been alleg- and she will be able to negotiate with her mother and we will, edly working, hoping to gather evidence against her trafficker, together, make her go on and stay on in school for another two apparently, the man shown here talking to police and also years. It‘s year by year that we negotiate for a child. taunting Khatoon. And even a year of not being raped, a year of not being beaten A loud and physical altercation ensued, before he was put into is great. It‘s better than a year of being raped and beaten. the police paddy wagon to cool down, at Gupta‘s insistence. Fred: For the young woman brought back to school and to Ruchira: He was following us to try to talk the police out of live in the Apne Aap shelter, it was hard to see much beyond it. And then he started abusing Fatima to provoke her not to her immediate fears and turmoil, torn and confused by family go there by calling her all kinds of name, from whore to all loyalty and tradition. Counseling for her is just one of the kinds of things, provoking her so that she would hit him, and tasks that lay ahead for the Apne Aap staff.
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