An eternal flame

Prajwala is a pioneering anti-trafficking organization working on the issue of sex trafficking and sex crime. Established in the year 1996 in South India, Prajwala has pan India and International operations. Prajwala works on the five pillars of Prevention, Protection, Rescue, Rehabilitation & Reintegration. In the last one decade it has become one of the most powerful voices nationally and globally for ensuring holistic victim services.

Trafficking for commercial sexual exploitation is the worst form of sexual slavery. It is an organized crime that exploits human vulnerabilities. For decades the most vulnerable to be trafficked were the economically and socially disadvantaged but with the proliferation of internet even economically privileged sections of the society who are emotionally vulnerable have been trapped into situations of exploitation. Hundreds of thousands of women and children have been deceived, coerced or manipulated by fraudulent means and forced into sex slavery. It is hard to enumerate the number of victims but it is roughly estimated that 3 million women and children are trafficked for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and 45% of them are children.

Every time a person buys sex, somewhere out there a vulnerable women or child is targeted to be sold for sex slavery.