Three minor girls were rescued early morning yesterday at the Pune train station. Freedom Firm operatives, acting on information from IJM in Kolkata, mobilized Pune police officers to rescue the girls and arrest the four traffickers as they left the train station. A brothel owner seen awaiting these girls at the train station went away empty handed but was arrested later.

This is our third rescue in four weeks.

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A link to a newspaper article about the rescues is below.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Pune/4-arrested-in-human-trafficking-case/articleshow/4750625.cms

Many women (or young girls) in prostitution are not there by choice. They are victims of modern day slavery. Often they’ve been promised a job, tricked into crossing international borders, and forced into a life of prostitution. The article states that “some 85 percent of women found working in British brothels are estimated to be from outside Britain, a reversal from 10 years ago when 85 percent of them were British citizens.” This a pretty radical and recent trend.

To fight prostitution and modern day slavery, we need a change of perspective. We need to rescue prostituted girls and prosecute buyers of sex. This “paradigm shift” is working. Sweden outlawed buying sex in 1999. They have seen significant change. 

Be part of the solution: get educated and lift up your voice for those who cannot. “Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed. Rescue the weak and needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.” (Psa 82:3-4)

You can read more here: full article.