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EMPOWER PEOPLE is a Delhi based umbrella organisation singularly focusing on work with victims and potential victims of human trafficking (bride trafficking to be precise) and honour crimes against women. The organisation (thanks to its nature and character of work) is gradually taking the form and shape of a social movement, with a few community based organisations in seven states of India, activist individuals and groups primarily in Assam, Bihar, Haryana, Jharkhand,Punjab,Rajasthan, West Bangal and some linkages in Himachal Pradesh. EMPOWER PEOPLE has a membership base of atleast 10,000 persons belonging to the above states which form a loose informal network.
Majority of the active members are from Bihar in Gaya, Augangabad and Nawada. In Jharkhand, it has bases in Chatra and Hazaribagh Districts. In Assam it has initiatives in Jorhat, Karimganj, Barpetta [from where a vehicle march against human trafficking was launched from (Barpetta to Delhi) in first week of March 2012]. This membership base was possible because of the Shafiq’s work in Gaya and neighboring Districts – first through an educational initiative called Career Development Corner (CDC) which started in 1999 and later through EMPOWER PEOPLE since 2006.
In Haryana, EMPOWER PEOPLE was working in three Districts namely Jind, Kurukshetra and Mewat. Now, it is working only in Mewat District because of financial constraints. In Punjab, it works in Rajpura Tehsil of Patiala District under CBO named Sajre Phool. This initiative is led by Dr. Ms. Sadhana Agarwal a practicing doctor involved in Govt’s RCH programme and also contributing to anti-human trafficking work.
EMPOWER PEOPLE started in 2006 with a singular focus on rescue and repatriation of victims of human trafficking. Atleast 400 women have been rescued since 2006, out of which, atleast 40 were “rehabilitated”. Although this is no small feat in itself, it is just the tip of a huge iceberg of a problem that can be likened to a marriage black market involving scores of middlemen and hundreds of girls and women trafficked, sold and resold over and over on the pretext of marriage. Mewat region in Haryana is a transit as well as destination point for the trafficked girls and women. The Mewat initiative (CBO) named “Wama-Vahini” is led by Ms. Gaushia Khan, who is now President of EMPOWER PEOPLE. She was a victim of trafficking herself and is today a key leader in this campaign against anti-human trafficking.
Majority of the active members are from Bihar in Gaya, Augangabad and Nawada. In Jharkhand, it has bases in Chatra and Hazaribagh Districts. In Assam it has initiatives in Jorhat, Karimganj, Barpetta [from where a vehicle march against human trafficking was launched from (Barpetta to Delhi) in first week of March 2012]. This membership base was possible because of the Shafiq’s work in Gaya and neighboring Districts – first through an educational initiative called Career Development Corner (CDC) which started in 1999 and later through EMPOWER PEOPLE since 2006.
In Haryana, EMPOWER PEOPLE was working in three Districts namely Jind, Kurukshetra and Mewat. Now, it is working only in Mewat District because of financial constraints. In Punjab, it works in Rajpura Tehsil of Patiala District under CBO named Sajre Phool. This initiative is led by Dr. Ms. Sadhana Agarwal a practicing doctor involved in Govt’s RCH programme and also contributing to anti-human trafficking work.
EMPOWER PEOPLE started in 2006 with a singular focus on rescue and repatriation of victims of human trafficking. Atleast 400 women have been rescued since 2006, out of which, atleast 40 were “rehabilitated”. Although this is no small feat in itself, it is just the tip of a huge iceberg of a problem that can be likened to a marriage black market involving scores of middlemen and hundreds of girls and women trafficked, sold and resold over and over on the pretext of marriage. Mewat region in Haryana is a transit as well as destination point for the trafficked girls and women. The Mewat initiative (CBO) named “Wama-Vahini” is led by Ms. Gaushia Khan, who is now President of EMPOWER PEOPLE. She was a victim of trafficking herself and is today a key leader in this campaign against anti-human trafficking.
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