How Relief India Trust Helps Victims of Human Rights Violations

What is the human rights violation?

This has become a very vicious thing these days; it is called a human rights violation. The answer is simple, people who treat other people as nothing more than objects to be bought and sold. This is a very sad truth. When one human doesn’t value the life of another or their freedom. They are mere items that can be bought and sold like commodities. This I know many people will tell me that it is a thing of the past and people are educated now and all this has stopped. Unfortunately, my answer to them is that just because we cannot see them doesn’t mean they don’t exist.

  

How we work to protect the victims?

At the Relief India Trust, we have seen many such incidents wherein the human rights are blatantly violated and people are bought and sold like commodities. Well, it may not be done as openly in a market, like it used to happen about a 100 years back, but it does happen. Now it happens in the comfort of a home where no prying eyes can see what is going on. There are many people who earn a livelihood by just trading people; they consider themselves as legitimate businessmen. Unfortunately, by the time we at the Relief India Trust intervene, the main players are long gone.

The people who are left behind are either the smaller pawns of this big game or the people who are bought and sold. They do not have much answer left to give. Most of them tell us that they came from poverty and their parents did not have any money to even feed them, after that they were sold to someone their family knew. They would be sold with the promise of a job; however, when they come over, the story becomes different. The children no matter what their age is, are sold for doing household chores and prostitution.

I remember this one story of a girl who came to us at Relief India Trust. She was sold by her stepfather to a middleman, who then sold her to a couple. The couple was  working for MNC and needed a maid to clean and do household chores. The girl was a little older than 9 and was made to do all the work around the house. And if they considered that her cleaning was not good, then she would be beaten and locked up without food and water.

When we found her it was almost 4 years that she had survived this torture. Now that she was older the women even forced her husband into raping this young girl. She had nowhere to go and so she silently put up with the torture, till one day a friend of the couple found out about this ordeal. He then contacted the police and that was how the girl was rescued. Now tell me does education have anything to do with how people treat each other? It is time that we should take a stand for the rights of people who cannot speak for themselves and help them out.