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nvolves both education to prevent
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ulnerable people from falling victim
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o traffickers and a ministry of care
for those who were lured or forced
into trafficking.
Meanwhile, faithful women will
continue to work and wait for the day
that the church and society will accept
women as equal partners with men.
Sushma Ramswami is the
communication secretary for the Synod
o
f the Church of North India.
Notes
1. In Leila Seth, Talking of Justice: People's Rights
in Modern India (New Delhi, India: Aleph Book
Co., 2014).
2. Maggie Black, "Women in Ritual Slavery:
Devadasi, Jogini and Mathamma in Karnataka and
Andhra Pradesh, Southern India" (London: Anti-
Slavery International, 2007), 10; http://idsn.org
/wp-content/uploads/user_folder/pdf/
New_files/India/WomeninRitualSlavery.pdf.
3. Silvia Helena Barcellos, Leandro Siqueira
Carvalho and Adriana Lleras-Muney, "Child
Gender and Parental Investments in India: Are
Boys and Girls Treated Differently?" (Santa
Monica, CA: Rand Corporation, 2011);
www.econ.ucla.edu/alleras/research/papers/Gende
r%20Discrimination%20March%202011.pdf.
4. The World Factbook 2015 (Washington, DC:
Central Intelligence Agency, 2015); www.cia.gov
/library/publications/the-world-factbook/ranko-
rder/2223rank.html.
5. Geeta Pandey, "Violence At Home Is India's
'Failing,'" 100 Women 2014, BBC News India,
October 29, 2014; www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-
india-29708612.
6. U.S. Department of State, Trafficking in Persons
Report 2014, 203; www.state.gov/j/tip/rls/tiprpt/
2014.
7. Ibid.
8. U.S., 184; www.state.gov/j/tip/rls/tiprpt/2015.
The children of the Tollygunge neighborhood of Kolkata greeted
Presbyterian Women as they visited a sewing project run by Cathedral
Relief Services (CRS), Church of North India. Projects like this
empower women through education and vocation training.
Laura
Lee