Consultation on Tackling Newer Emerging Vulnerabilities Leading to
Trafficking in Children and Women in Bihar
In
its crusade against trafficking in women and children in Bihar the
Church of North India organized a Consultation to tackle the newer
emerging vulnerabilities leading to human trafficking during 11th
– 12th January 2008 at Patna, Bihar which was was
inaugurated by the Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar Mr. Sushil Modi,
the Honorable Speaker of the Bihar Assembly, Mr. U N Chowdhury, Dr.
P. M. Nair, coordinator, Anti-trafficking Unit, UNODC ROSA, Rev. Dr.
Enos Das Pradhan and Rev. Dn. Adrian Watkins, Regional Manager –
South Asia, Church Mission Society by lighting the Lamp. The
Honorable Deputy Chief Minister and the Honorable Speaker (Bihar
legislative Assembly) released Hindi and Nepali posters jointly
produced by UNODC, CNI and Government of India that highlights the
mode and consequences of human trafficking for generating public
awareness and sensitizing different stakeholders to bring about an
attitudinal change.