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Published on Nov 11, 2016
101 East investigates how every year, tens of thousands of girls and women in India are trafficked into slave marriages.
Decades
of sex selection favouring male babies have left some Indian states
with vastly more men than women, creating a lucrative and growing market
for traffickers. In the patriarchal and feudal state of Haryana where
there's a shortage of women to marry, it's normal for men to buy young
girls trafficked from other states.
Known as "paros", a term
implying they can be purchased, they are regularly raped, forced into
marriages and made to work as bonded labour. Their uneducated families
are often tricked into agreeing to send them away, lured by the idea of a
happy marriage for their daughters. But, tragically, there is no
"happily ever after".
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