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Fatima Begum, cries in her home as she talk about her her daughter Jannat Ara, 16, who she believes has been the victim of trafficking and forcibly sold in India eight months ago, Balukhali refugee camp

Fatima Begum, cries in her home as she talk about her her daughter Jannat Ara, 16, who she believes has been the victim of trafficking and forcibly sold in India eight months ago, Balukhali refugee camp, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, December 1, 2019. Fatima explains how nine months ago a man proposed to her daughter. He came to the family asking for the girl's hand – but the proposal was refused, as the man was told that she was not old enough to marry him. Several days after the incident, Janna disappeared. She was on her way from home to a learning centre, were she worked as a volunteer, taking care of children. After several weeks Jannat made contact with the family. She explained that she had married the man and that she was living with him in a house in Jammu, the capital of Jammu and Kashmir union territory in northern India. Several months went buy, in which the family would receive news of Jannat by phone. Then, early one morning, the family got another call from a relative who also lives in India. He explained that he received news that Jannat had been arrested by the authorities for not having identification papers. She was detained trying to cross the Indian-Bangladesh border. “I believe that my daughter was tricked into marrying this man, and when they arrived in India her sold her to a landlord. He was a trafficker who took my daughter away from me”, explain Fatima, tears rolling down her face as she looks at photographs of her daughter. “I am so worried. I haven't talked to her in months. She is in prison, in a place she does not know, alone.” There has been an increase in children being reported missing or confirmed abducted within the Rohingya community inside the camps. Human trafficking can be summarized as the recruitment, transportation or receipt of people through deception or coercion for the purpose of exploitation including prostitution, sexual exploitation, forced labor or removal of organs. Women and girls are recruited for labor ex

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Fatima Begum, cries in her home as she talk about her her daughter Jannat Ara, 16, who she believes has been the victim of trafficking and forcibly sold in India eight months ago, Balukhali refugee camp, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, December 1, 2019. Fatima explains how nine months ago a man proposed to her daughter. He came to the family asking for the girl's hand – but the proposal was refused, as the man was told that she was not old enough to marry him. Several days after the incident, Janna disappeared. She was on her way from home to a learning centre, were she worked as a volunteer, taking care of children. After several weeks Jannat made contact with the family. She explained that she had married the man and that she was living with him in a house in Jammu, the capital of Jammu and Kashmir union territory in northern India. Several months went buy, in which the family would receive news of Jannat by phone. Then, early one morning, the family got another call from a relative who also lives in India. He explained that he received news that Jannat had been arrested by the authorities for not having identification papers. She was detained trying to cross the Indian-Bangladesh border. “I believe that my daughter was tricked into marrying this man, and when they arrived in India her sold her to a landlord. He was a trafficker who took my daughter away from me”, explain Fatima, tears rolling down her face as she looks at photographs of her daughter. “I am so worried. I haven't talked to her in months. She is in prison, in a place she does not know, alone.” There has been an increase in children being reported missing or confirmed abducted within the Rohingya community inside the camps. Human trafficking can be summarized as the recruitment, transportation or receipt of people through deception or coercion for the purpose of exploitation including prostitution, sexual exploitation, forced labor or removal of organs. Women and girls are recruited for labor ex