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Poverty stalks girl babies

Visit the Banjara thandas of the state bordering Andhra Pradesh and you confront the stark reality of their poverty. It is here that women are driven to killing their baby girls after giving birth to them as they cannot afford to raise th [...]

Posted On : Aug, 06 2012 | Comments : 0

Poverty makes dad sell girl for Rs 5K

She was purchased for Rs 5,000 by a brothel-keeper's agent before being brought to city's notorious red-light area Ganga Jamuna just a year ago. The teenager was apparently sold off by her father who urged her to accompany the wo [...]

Posted On : Jul, 16 2010 | Comments : 0

Poverty forces girls into sex slavery

GIRLS as young as 14 are lured from villages with promises of jobs, only to end up as sex slaves in Kampala, writes Stephen Ssenkaba SHE was shy and could not look me straight in the eye. But as I talked to her, I noticed an air of apprehen [...]