Nearly 150,000 women and girls, mostly from Nepal and Bangladesh, are trafficked every year to India or to a third country through India,
as sex slaves, reported the Indo-Asian News Service Wednesday, quoting an international children protection non-government organization.
India is the main destination of "alarming flows" of cross-border trafficking in South Asia, said a study by the global child rights group End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes (ECPAT) International, according to the report.
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