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Human chain against child trafficking today

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD Dec. 11. Campaign Against Child Trafficking (CACT) India is forming a `human chain' on Tank Bund on Friday to draw the attention of people to child trafficking and to appeal to the United Nations to declare the day the `Global Day Against Child Trafficking.' In a statement, M. Sumitra, convenor, CACT, said trafficking in human beings, especially children, had increased alarmingly. Children were being abducted, sold and leased. The trafficked children were forced into prostitution, drawn into organ transplantation racket and used for drug peddling, she noted.

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