Community Action to assist Bride trafficking Survivors in becoming community leaders in Haryana

The business of ‪marriage matching or ‪bride trade (trafficking) is not different from sex ‪trafficking because it treats women as a commodity to be sold to some unknown men and their purpose is not to find lifetime loving partners but to arrange a wife to be treated as a sex object, domestic worker and all-around slave. And the most painful part of the whole bride business is that it is also a new form of child marriage which has emerged in a wide scale. ‪Bride-Trafficking systematically violates‪ women’s ‪‎human ‪rights including the rights to life and security of persons. It places women in ganger of physical abuse and deprives them of bodily integrity. they are kept in villages or form houses and prevented from leaving or even communicating with their families back home. Their freedom from slavery and abuse is violated as a trafficked bride becomes the ‘slave’ of the man who “buys” her.

We are working in destination and source areas of bride trafficking, not only on rescue and rehabilitation but also working on pushing factors of trafficking, poverty alivation, creation of employment, engaging landless and small landhonding communities with market-led livelihoods intervention for farm-based products like lemongrass, banana, paddy, Tomato, Potato and medicinal plants. we are also promoting Gender equality at grassroot level, working on domestic violence, honor crimes, issues related to dowry and share of daughter in Inheritance. 

• Direct Intervention/Rescue Counseling
• Community based secure living
• Formation and operation of Survivor collective
• Entrepreneurship development for vulnerable girls
• Training for Local NGOs,CBOs as well as stake holders at grassroots level
• Networking & campaign for cause of Bride Trafficking 
• Formation of CBO/Peoples anti trafficking group 
• Engagement of local government 
• Inclusion of Issue of Bride trafficking with Government schemes and local plans 
• Information dissemination and training of rural News reporters 
• Formation of Survivors Commune (survivor's collectives)

We wish assist Bride trafficking survivors in becoming self reliant community leaders helping and assisting others in need.