Trafficking of Women and Girls for Commercial Sexual Exploitation: An Analysis on Impact of Violence in Kolkata's Brothel

Trafficking in women girls and children is an organised crime that brutally exploited them for numerous purposes. Trafficking for the prostitution is the worst form of exploitation where they have to face numbers of violence, which has a severe impact on their physical, mental and health development. Thus, the primary objective of this paper is to explore the kinds of violence faced by the trafficked prostitutes in Kolkata's brothel and what are the impact of this violence on prostitutes. Numbers of trafficked women and girls are currently working in the brothel of Kolkata. 25 women and girls were interview for this study. What it has is analysed in the survey that they come from marginalised community, less educated and mostly unmarried. For surviving they have to face some violence such as physical and sexual abuse, beaten, locked in a room without food, tortured brutally and sometimes threaten to murder by their owners, madams, traffickers as well as from their clients in their different stages. The study also found that they have a direct impact of violence regarding the loss of weight, several marks on their body, affected by the sexually transmitted disease, unwanted pregnancy and several abortions. Awkash Kumar"Trafficking of Women and Girls for Commercial Sexual Exploitation: An Analysis on Impact of Violence in Kolkata's Brothel" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-2 | Issue-3 , April 2018, URL: http://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd11016.pdf http://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/social-science/11016/trafficking-of-women-and-girls-for-commercial-sexual-exploitation-an-analysis-on-impact-of-violence-in-kolkata's-brothel/awkash-kumar