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"Sexual
exploitation exists when women, men, or children are forced to
perform nonconsensual commercial sex acts. Victims of sex
trafficking are often lured by the promise of employment. Sexual
exploitation can also occur as a form of debt bondage, with
traffickers claiming that individuals must work to pay for their
transportation, recruitment, upkeep, or even sale. - There is evidence pointing to an emerging trend in northeast India where organised trafficking syndicates operate undetected along the open and unmanned international borders, duping or coercing young, educated girls seeking employment outside their local area into forced sexual exploitation.
- According to a Caritas report, trafficking of children is particularly prevalent in the north eastern state of Assam where in 2016 at least 129 girls were forced into sex work by traffickers. Recent survivor interviews in Kolkata, West Bengal, indicate that victims (a majority of whom knew their recruiters) were lured with the promise of a good job but were then forced into sex work. A ‘conditioning’ period involving physical violence, threats, debt bondage, and rape was also commonly used to limit a victim’s ability to resist sex work." Global Slavery Index
