“I was only 12 when I came with my mother across from a small town in Bangladesh to India. We halted in Kolkata for a few days and then...

Meena is an orphan girl, who was trafficked and sold at Pune at the age of 13. She was beaten and tortured like all other trafficked women

Human Trafficking Survivor

I, Shenaya, grew up in Mankhurd, Mumbai, and was also called Pinky by my family. I used to go with my mother to work on construction...

I grew up in Karnataka born into a family that sold me as a Devadasi. My mother had two husbands, both of them died when I was 4 years...

I was married off at the age 17. I completed my 11th grade but got married before I completed 12th grade. My husband was without work and...

I come from a small village in West Bengal. I was four years old when my older sister was offered a job by a neighbor. My mother thought...

I come from a small, poor village in Bangladesh. I got married at a young age and gave birth to my beautiful daughter. Coming from a poor...

I grew up in a very impoverished home in one of the flood hit villages of Bangladesh. I wanted to study but my parents couldn't afford to...

As a 14 year old girl in India, I should normally be studying in class 9, playing with my friends and enjoying my childhood. But that's...

I was a young carefree girl playing and enjoying myself as a child. One day suddenly my world was turned upside down. When I was 14 my...

I was the apple of my father’s eyes, protected by my brothers, loved to bits by my mother and pampered by all my family and relatives. I...

Growing up in a village far away, I simply knew my parents were in Mumbai to earn a living for me and my 3 siblings. What I didn't know...

I grew up in the temple where the priests told me that my parents died after I was born. I don't remember seeing them. I became a young...

I called my husband by his name, and my in-laws, who were people I saw on an everyday basis before marriage as 'dada','dadi' (terms for...