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India has emerged as a key destination and transit point for global trafficking of women and girls, a UN report has said. Besides India, other sources of human trafficking are Thailand, Pakistan, China and Cambodia, the United Nations Population Fund report on State of World Population said.

The problem is huge. Every year, as many as 20,000 to 50,000 girls from the poorest parts of Nepal, India, Bangladesh are trafficked – lured by the false promises of traffickers. These girls, some as young as nine, end up in Indian brothels or as domestic servants in countries as far away as the Middle East. In either case, they’re slaves. Many are HIV positive within two years, and dead before they reach twenty.

The way we combat this modern-day slavery is revolutionary – and surprisingly effective.

For a country whose population of women alone is more than the total population of many other countries, we fare pretty low where their treatment is concerned. The number of sexual abuse and domestic violence cases against women clearly throws light on the fact that women in India do not enjoy even  basic rights; their health, education and empowerment unfortunately take a back seat under such a scenario.

Trafficking is defined as a trade in something that should not be traded in for various social, economic or political reasons.Thus we have terms like drug trafficking, arms trafficking and human trafficking. The concept of human trafficking refers to the criminal practice of exploiting human beings by treating them like commodities for profit. Even after being trafficked victims are subjected to long term exploitation. The crime of trafficking manifests itself through the following.

Trafficking both for commercial sexual exploitation and for non-sex based exploitation is a transnational and complex challenge as it is an organized criminal activity, an extreme form of human rights violation and an issue of economic empowerment and social justice. The trafficking of women and children causes untold miseries as it violates the rights and dignity of the individual in several ways. It violates the individual’s rights to life, dignity, security, privacy, health, education and redressal of grievances.

Women and children from India are sent to nations of the Middle East daily. Girls in prostitution and domestic service in India, Pakistan and the Middle East are tortured, held in virtual imprisonment, sexually abused, and raped. (Indrani Sinha, SANLAAP India, “Paper on Globalization and Human Rights”)

Policy and Law:

The UN Convention of the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others (1949), and the supplementary convention on the abolition of slavery, the slave trade and institutions and practices of slavery have been signed by most of the SAARC countries, including Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. (Trafficking in Women and Children: The Cases of Bangladesh, p.9, UBINIG, 1995)

In 1992, Bombay, India, police intercepted the traffic of 25 Bangladeshi children, 5 to 8 years old. The children and trafficker were held in the same jail. Three years later, 12 of the children were returned to their homes. (Fawzia Karim Firoze & Salma Ali of the Bangladesh National Women Layer Association,” Bangladesh Country Paper: Law and Legislation”).

Experts had predicted that Hitler might try to invade the U.S. from the East Coast with the help of their allies, according to a 1942 issue of a magazine.

After the Luftwaffe launched a devastating attack on the British fleet, Hitler’s ships race across the Atlantic and with the help of 5th columnists invade America.

This is just one of the nightmare scenarios imagined by the Life magazine in 1942 when the threat of a Nazi invasion seemed all too real, reports the Daily Mail.

Created in the months after Pearl Harbour, the March 2 issue featured a series of maps showing how experts predicted German might try to annex the U.S.

The maps shows detailed plans of how the Nazis could work with their allies to take over America.

One scenario imagined by the magazine sees the Germans invade the U.S. from the East Coast. But first, they would have needed to take out the British fleet, rescue captured Vichy France and Italian fleets, and have help from 5th columnists in the U.S.

According to these plans, the Nazis would launch an assault on Norfolk, Virginia. First, the Germans would rendezvous with the ‘Jap fleet’ via the Azores, Madeira and Canaries

Its purpose was to serve as a warning to readers that America was no longer just an observer of the Second World War.

The varied diagrams show different options, which would have been available to the Germans from invasion across the Atlantic to the East Coast to the imagined bombing of the Panama Canal before launching at attack via Japan from the West.

The maps were created by Life as a follow-up to an article by science fiction author Philip Wylie, who had written a controversial article imagining an American defeat in the war.

 I am not a person with pretty money. I have a dream that someday I become a rich person. But how could ordinary people like me will be a rich person someday? Nobody knows. Life is changing every day.

Poverty can turn a good person became bad; romantic husband became violence person; a good boy became criminal. Luxury of life, consumerist of modern lifestyle, jealousy and envy about average life, makes human tried to commercializing everything. To be or not to be (rich)! Modest life is not our lifestyle today, but lavish one. There is no enough money to all of us. “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed” Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) ever said. 

I do believe that life will be better someday. When I see people with good car, have enogh money to entertain there family, I admit that I feel jealous. But what can I do? Should I kill them? No, of course no. I learnt to gratitude what I have in my life. I was happy when I saw my two young sisters and my parents having smile and joy on there face, after both sisters marriage. I do have enough to fulfill my personal needs, however not enough to fulfill my girlfriends greed and need. Sometimes I get sad and think my self does money is more than human heart and human value. Also I am sad for things what I do and get paid as salary which is not satisfying nor it does fulfill my future needs.

When I was Jobless, I admit that I was afraid, but I informed my self that yesterday is the past, tomorrow is the future, and today is a gift. I gratitude for what I have in this simple life. I pray and thanks for all things what I got in my life which is a gift given my mother.

The experience which I shared, hope people reading it would understand or catch the requirements and value human’s emotion more than money. I agree we should respect money, but one should not worship money.

We should take initiative steps and try to change the world, I know a single person cant change whole world, but one starts to take a positive step and start educating people to come forward and try and help people who are under poverty line and assist them to come up. One small positive step can make huge change best example for this would be our own “Anna Hazare”, his small daring step has bought revolution in every Indian.

 What is poverty anyway?

Most people have an intuitive idea of what it means to be poor – constantly worrying about money, not being able to access good health care and education for yourself and the people you love, being vulnerable to shocks like economic recessions, illness, or a political upheaval. Notwithstanding this general notion of what poverty is, the truth is that in some countries being poor means you get one meal of broken rice a day instead of two, while in other countries it can mean struggling to pay the electrical and heating bills.

     The impulse to give puts you in touch with the best part of yourself and the principles of abundance.  Give not only when you feel rich, but also when you feel poor.

What you need to know and believe is that when you’ve taken care of others, you’ve responded to the higher values of your existence.

You must value what you do for a living for what it is, what it contributes to the world, and for what it makes you–not for the salary it pays you–for true wealth can never be measured by a dollar figure alone.

What Money Can Buy?

• A bed but not Sleep
• Computer but not Brain
• Food but not Appetite
• Finery but not Beauty
• A house but not a Home
• Medicine but not Health
• Luxuries but not Culture
• Amusement but not Happiness
• Acquaintance but not Friends
• Obedience but not Faithfulness
• Sex but not Love With

With this small note I hope you will take a small step and try to help least one person?

The word citizen has three shades of meaning. It may mean to town-dweller as distinguished from a villager; or, secondly, the member of a city, who has recognized municipal privileges and duties – as, a citizen of Manchester, or of Bombay; or lastly, it may mean the subject of a sovereign state, in which sense we speak of an English citizen, or a French citizen.

The first meaning may be left aside here; for the subject is concerned with the second and third meanings only. What, then, are the duties of a citizen to his city and his country?

A citizen is the member of a community, whether that community is a town or a great country: and as the member of a community he has both privileges and duties. We may think of a community as existing for the sake of its individual members, or, the individual members as existing for the sake of the community. The first view, held by individualists, emphasizes the privileges of a citizenship. One says, the State exists for the good of the citizen – and that is true; the other says, the citizens exist for the good of the State – and that also is true. Both views must be combined and a citizen must recognize that the State he belongs to has a duty to him (his privileges) and that he has an obligation to it (his duties).

However, as we are in no danger of forgetting our privileges as citizens, it is wise to emphasize our duties.

The first obvious duty of a citizen is loyalty to the country of his birth or adoption. Patriotism does not mean “My country, right or wrong”; but it does mean that in a national crisis or danger, a citizen must be prepared to support and defend his country even, if necessary, with his life.

Secondly, it is the duty of a citizen to obey his country’s laws. He must have no sympathy with crime, which is a breach of law. He may consider some laws imperfect, unwise and even unjust; and he may, and should, use all constitutional means in his power, such as public speaking, writing to the press, organization, and the use of his vote, to get such laws reformed or abolished. But so long as a law is a law, he must obey it.

Thirdly, he must do more than keep the law himself, he must, as occasion arises, actively assist the guardians of the law in the performance of their duty in putting down crimes and arresting criminals. Criminals must be made to feel that they have, not only the police, but also all respectable citizens against them.

Fourthly, he ought to take an intelligent interest in politics; for as a citizen he has a vote, and he is responsible for using that vote for the good of his country as a whole. He must form definite opinions as to what is best for his country, and what men are the best to rule it, and what new laws and reforms it needs, and then actively use such influence as he has to forward such measures.

Lastly, a citizen must be ready, if he has the ability and is called upon to do so, to render active voluntary service to his city or country, by serving on municipalities, education committees, and other public bodies, or even in the central legislature. Good citizens have no right to leave the management of local or national institutions to professional politicians.

We used to go to school together, sit together, eat together from a plate, talk over the telephone every night and even spend our weekends together,” thought Diana as she walked sulkily home from school. She was thinking about her closest friend Liza who had suddenly decided to end their established friendship.

This was how it happened. Diana was a favorite among her teachers. She was very much respected by her schoolmates. Diana, a very bright student who was always top in standard was befriended by Liza, the school’s best athlete. Everybody knew that both of them were inseparable.

It so happened that a student from Primary Six needed to be chosen as the assistant secretary of the school’s sports department. She was to represent the students of primary four, five and six at any meeting held in preparation of the school’s coming sports meet.

The teachers had unanimously chosen Diana because of her popularity among the other students. Besides, she could speak very well. Liza was not chosen because the teacher thought that she would be very busy with her practice as she would be running in a few events during the sports day.

When the choice was announced, Diana was cheered tremendously by the students. However, Liza’s face became pale; she excused herself and hurried away from the assembly ground. Diana was not able to follow her as she was surrounded by the others. When school was dismissed, Diana waited for Liza at the school gate. When she did not turn up after half an hour, Diana went to look for her. Surprisingly she was nowhere to be found.

Thinking that she must have hurried home to attend some personal matters, Diana walked home alone. That night Diana telephoned her friend to inquire about her. However, Liza made up some excuses to hang up the telephone. Diana believed her and readily excused her.

In school, the next day, Liza avoided Diana as much as possible. In class, she had to sit beside Diana but she kept quiet all along. During the break, Liza went off to the canteen without waiting for Diana. Diana saw her at the canteen, eating with another girl. Then only did she realize that something must be wrong. The more she thought the more her mind suggested to her the possible reasons. At last she gave up and sat on a bench and ate her sandwiches.

As she was eating, two girls passed b and she overheard them talking. The mention of her name made her strain her neck and try to catch a few words from their conversation. What a shock she had when she finally pieced the information together Liza was actually jealous of her position as the student’s representative in the sport department. Diana could not believe that such a trivial matter could cause this heart-aching break.

Diana thought about the matter again as she walked home. She decided that Liza had to come to a self realization. She must realize that friendship should be cherished above all. Diana felt that she should give up her new post if that would patch up the hole in their relationship. But… that would only pamper Liza and would not make her realize her folly. She continued her walk deep in thought.