North and south America Today slavery is illegal in every country on the planet but the truth is slavery did not die in the 19th century it is alive it is thriving and it is bigger than ever. India is one of the worlds Fastest Growing economies. An economic boom has brought with it new wealth and consumers. But india also has the knowledge of number of slaves in the world. And in addition to poverty and desperation the new prosperity has brought in its wake and new scene of slate. Bright traffic. But the parthenon why nasa planned out that life got that. Turn that it was my. Father then to undergo but. He said that as ive been here. We got a new company but so do plenty i mean my job i think. But a lot more to get in return. So the past 20 years bright traffic has have preyed on vulnerable young women from indias vast rural hinterland promising to deliver them into a traditionally arranged marriage but in reality selling them over and over into a life of sexual slavery and forced labor. Drove you at the end would do no come but i was sick of the. Slip what the air got to make in the. Heart temple. Is scalable ok. John why dont. More side it come. About that. Less than 2 hours from the countrys capital new delhi a traditional arranged wedding is about to take place. 2 brothers from nearby marrying 2 sisters of a landowning family here in northern india. The girls relatives and local dignitaries awaiting patiently to greet the 2 brothers sat down in the. Pairing the feast just being explained to me that the groom is actually just in those buildings just behind me hes going to be coming in just a few minutes 2 minutes for the ceremony which is called the nick will then be performed where the marriage certificate or agreement is signed by the groom and the brides family and then the feast although again. Arranged marriages like this one are as much about cementing relations between 2 families and their property as they are about the wedding of brides and grooms. Marriages can take many forms in india directly arranged marriages like this one are common. But some marriages are arranged by go between men and women who act as brokers often bringing marriage partners together from distant parts of the country. But its a small step from the go between who arranges marriages by consent to a new and dangerous trade entrapment and sale of women as brights. Ive come to a suburb of delhi to meet shafi khan who runs a Grassroots Organization dedicated to tracking down bride traffickers and the women who fall in victim to their trade. Most of his work is done in the punjab and the neighboring states of hari ana. Some rescue work is carried out around may watts in Haryana States a predominantly muslim area less than 2 hours drive from delhi. I mean whatever he says that may work as a hub for the trade and brides problem. As marianne. Also done. Men. Once a woman has been sold her status within her new village is defined by the derogatory terms or mulkey meaning a purchased woman. In the villages in fields near may want women are often found to be doing the most punishing of manual labor. But there is a shortage of women in this region sometimes as few a 7 women for every 10 men it creates a ready market for bright. Arianna state is one of the hot spots for bride trafficking in the country with women being brought in from the far east of the country thousands of kilometers away and its no coincidence that Haryana State also has one of the largest discrepancies in the ratio between men and women. But the consequences of this can be devastating. In a small hut next to a local mosque a group of women from nearby villages are gathered to talk about their lives as traffic brides. All of these women say they have been transported to hari ana from distant parts of rural india taken from their families against their will they claim by traffickers who used a mixture of false promises and violence they were then forcibly sold into marriage some of the many times over. They have been secretly brought together here by one of chef eeks local organizers because ive been told meeting them in their village would make their lives even more dangerous. Middle of me dont like. Theyre. 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Bryde trafficking is relatively new in india it has emerged in just the last 2 decades his story and well much of our team believes that its driven not just by the growing imbalance between the numbers of men and women in rural india but by the new technology now available to families with pregnant women. The short one itself is a consequence of 6 elective abortions that have been practiced at least for the last 2025 years it began with it we understand this is which was meant for determining genetic disorders as part of that test one of the things that the test revealed was also the sex of the unborn child. And if these tests reveal that the unborn child is female abortions are more likely. To bias against girl children in india is closely connected to the traditional dowry system the payment of cash and gifts to the family of the group. Diaries are outlawed but the practice is still widespread. And for the poorest families with young girls the costs of the diary in marriage can be crippling. But with infanticide and now selective abortions the falling availability of girls for marriage has created another social time bomb. According to sociologist live in the car the demand for brides in certain parts of india is now so strong and the costs of dowry so high that some families afford to cash in on their daughters. Because families are poor and you know dowdy means a huge investment. People. Often go into debt daughters off and hear this see an opportunity where they think that their daughter has been going to cross but. She will not have to worry about food and you know. Livelihood. Jiffy con is a lone voice trying to fight the trade in traffic brides but proving a woman has been trafficked rather than entered into an arranged marriage can be very difficult. Im following shift to a rendezvous with some local contacts who may help us locate some of the men involved in trafficking brides. Were in a hurry on a brother now and their shift just stopped off to pick up 2 of the stringers to the people who work with him trying to make contact with local trafficking bride traffickers. In the market area of may want sheffield learns from his string is that there is a village hidden far away from the main road where a number of women from outside the region appear to be staying. That they try to work out whether its safe to make an approach. Because already been warned that he may be in danger in this area. Information i. Can. Quote you was. Taken down my attempts to reach one of the men in the village by phone fail. So she decides he has to go to the village and see for himself whats going on. He walks in with one of his stringers. And after a few minutes we get a message that the villages have agreed that we can join him. Finds 2 men who seem to be watching over the women whove arrived here from outside the state. He tries to persuade one of the men to talk about how the women came to be in this village. Where her name. You. Take yeah yeah. Yeah. The women i mean many of the op but look at them carney. You know the everything he does the no no i think what were seeing in action is exactly the way she feels lonely it works even if we werent here filming this is the kind of. Trust and confidence hes going to build up. In order for men like these 2. Alleged to be doing what theyre accused of this is a very very hard circle to penetrate and they would want to. Speak explicitly and most i never knew that i you know suddenly one of the women who stayed out of view in the hearts walks out and joins. But one of the men who turns out to be her husband decides to leave. God god god god. You know him and tell him. Ok now. You have 9. It had the angry. Jab. Jab all again. The owners of my leg theyve got a lot of. 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But do you think the women will know the names of the men who trafficked them put it that i said were not done. With a little bit of their hand. Up here for how to get be here you know were going to look at all young. People which put that in. But with the mens denard of any. Goldmans and trafficking will need to continue his search for harder evidence. Hes now on the trail of a man who his contacts of identified as a marriage broker. Suspects he may be a bright trafficker. Was. The man whose name was struck out once record an interview where it can be overheard so weve parked our car on a road near open fields. As. A little bit. Take. A look. At the. Connections with a states that is more than a 1000 miles away have raised suspicions whats more unusually for a man of modest means owns land there. Was no but that a he had a. Couple reading and i was in his i mean way. Meaning that. Knowledge is that he acts as a broker for marriages between women in some and men in her yana but shift suspects that he does more than a. Woman. Yet another man gives me. Some of them in a nation of their own and a. Man of the very large phenomena nation i bother dont really get into the whole gay as any truck at this point everything that you said i mean there are some people who have told us that actually what happens in these situations is that a lot of the girls come not knowing theyre getting married and that they come against their will is that true. For the near. Me a lot of them in the show could denials mean that sheffield will have to go back to his sources but how can he be so certain about this and other cases. About then. Bres nearly. Which law. But. Yet. Trafficked women him say but. Conform with that ive seen it. Say. What about. Women over this area who who who say that thats happened to them. What do you think about their testimony when i feel. That way but. On. The whole. Marriage may seem the best option for a woman who has been the victim of bride traffic has been transported thousands of miles from her home. But the real solution lies in india enforcing its own anti slavery laws. Somewhere north of 10000000 people are in slavery in india and its certainly been my experience with Indian Government officials that they will brook no interference from outside that they have a smarting sense of an imperialist colonial legacy which they trot out whenever you confront them about something that they really need confronting. The modern face of indian women that is visible in sumptuous shopping malls populated not just by powerful indian elites but by an aspirational and v. T. C. Prosperous middle class. New jobs in technology and services have opened up unprecedented opportunities for women in particular. This is the new india and the one that this country wants to project to the outside world. But for the countless women in slave dystrophic brides this prosperity can only be a distance drily. This year out of 167. 00 countries india tops the Global Slavery Index a study including women trafficked as bridal slaves. In haryana activists carried out a separate survey of 10000 married women 9000 of them were found to be from other parts of india and many of them may have been brought to her iana against their will. This skewed gender ratio that lies behind harry honest trafficking epidemic shows no signs of improving. The un report predicts that it will take at least 50 years for the numbers of men and women to balance out here. Many young women continue to leave the countryside to seek work in cities but the shortage of brides in rule areas also stems from dhaka causes. And entrenched cultural preference for male children is causing rising levels of female fetuses despite the Indian Government recently making gender selective abortions illegal. 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