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Busting Varanasi's Child Prostitution Racket.
https://t.co/ELJ3vvvo7J via @YouTube
India is a known source, transit, and destination country for sex trafficking victims. There was approximately 20,000 reported case of sex trafficking in 2016 alone.
The Caste system has made it almost impossible for victims of the commercial sex industry to escape the harsh reality of violence. People believe that if you're of low class, you deserve what is happening to you. This ideology leads to zero change being made. #weareallequal
The Indian culture has believed for many years that engaging in sexual intercourse with a virgin would cure anybody of HIV/AIDS. Because of this very notion, India has a reported 4,000,000 people living with HIV/AIDS, making this one of the largest world epidemics.