Sex Trafficking - Gcc – Global Climate Change

is India becoming the land of bachelors?

December 27, 2019August 12, 2019 by Neal

DROUGHT IN INDIA is changing the way marriages are arranged: Men seeking wives are paying large fees to traffickers while wives seeking husbands are being made promises and getting duped into marriages. According to the article “No Water, No Wife: How Climate Change is Linked to Trafficking” (Freedom United, August 5, 2019), wells and other sources of water have dried up, forcing people to walk miles for water in India. READ MORE

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