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• Comment Link Friday, 17 January 2025 13:46 posted by nagaway

  Traffickers in India force 300,000 children to
  beg in streets - police
  By REUTERS
  
  Published: 15:06 GMT, 1 June 2016 | Updated: 15:06 GMT,
  1 June 2016
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  By Anuradha Nagaraj
  
  CHENNAI, India, June 1 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) -
  At least 300,000 children across India are drugged, beaten and forced to beg every
  day, in what has become a multi million rupee industry controlled by human trafficking cartels,
  police and trafficking experts said.
  
  Writing in a report which is about to be circulated across the country's police forces, the authors urged law enforcers to carry out
  greater surveillance of children living on the streets.
  
  
  According to the Indian National Human Rights Commission, up to 40,000 children are abducted in India every year, of which at least 11,000 remain untraced.
  
  
  
  "The police don't think begging is an issue because they assume that the adult with the child is either family or a known person,"
  said co-author Anita Kanaiya, CEO of The Freedom Project India, which works on trafficking issues.
  
  
  "But for every 50 children rescued there will be at least 10 who are victims of trafficking. And there has to be a constant vigil to identify them," she
  told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
  
  Children are sometimes maimed or burned to elicit greater sympathy and get more alms, said the
  report.
  
  The money they earn is usually paid to the traffickers, or to
  buy alcohol and drugs.
  
  The report is based on the experiences of police and charities in Bengaluru city
  - formerly known as Bangalore - in the southern Indian state of Karnataka.
  
  
  
  There is a seasonal pattern to begging, local police said.
  Cities like Bengaluru see a sharp rise in the numbers of children wandering the streets just before
  festivals or after a natural disaster.
  
  In 2011, Bengaluru police launched "Operation Rakshane" ("To Save").
  In coordination with various government departments and charities, they drew up
  a blueprint to help children forced into begging.
  
  Months before carrying out a series of rescues, they spread
  out across the city, taking pictures of children on the street, documenting their daily activities and shadowing them back to their
  homes.
  
  "When we started, we had nothing to prove the connection between begging and trafficking. But we went about meticulously recording any signs of forced labour on the streets of the city," Kanaiya said.
  
  
  
  According to inspector general of police, Pronob Mohanty, who spearheaded the
  operation, teams of police and health workers rescued 300 children on a single day across the city.
  
  
  The traffickers were arrested and later imprisoned.
  
  
  "Operation Rakshane is meant to be a template which can be replicated as a model of inter agency cooperation," Mohanty said in the handbook, which includes suggestions
  for surveillance, data collection and rehabilitation, as well as listing relevant laws.
  
  
  Kanaiya said: "We are now initiating a planned campaign to take the book to every police headquarter in the country and follow it up with a workshop on child (begging) and rescue operations for policemen." (Reporting by Anuradha Nagaraj, editing by Alex Whiting;
  Please credit the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news,
  women's rights, trafficking and climate change.
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  Gov Andrew Cuomo has denied Mayor Bill de Blasio's assertion that he is blocking New York City officials from moving around
  8,000 homeless people living in Midtown Manhattan hotels to permanent
  shelters, saying that the relocation process does not
  need approval from the governor.  
  
  De Blasio addressed the issue at a press briefing on Wednesday where he said he's been waiting nearly
  a month for Cuomo's authorization to start the relocation process of the
  homeless individuals who were temporarily put up in about 60 to 70 hotels near Hells' Kitchen and Times Square during the pandemic.  
  
  'Everything is ready to go,' de Blasio said. 'It is time to move
  homeless folks who were in hotels for a temporary period of time back to shelters
  where they can get the support they need.'
  
  Hours later Cuomo's office pushed back against de Blasio's comments and told DailyMail.com the mayor doesn't need authorization from the
  governor after he lifted virtually all COVID-19 restrictions in the state on Tuesday. 
  
  The politicians' conflicting contentions come as de
  Blasio's administration faces mounting pressure to curtail an alarming
  surge in crime in the section of Manhattan that the NYPD has linked to the high number
  of homeless people being housed there by the city.  
  
  The police precinct that includes Times Square and many of the hotel homeless shelters has
  seen a 183 percent spike in felony assaults and 173 percent spike
  in robberies so far this year compared to 2020, according to NYPD data. 
  
  For months residents living near the hotels have implored the city to relocate
  the homeless people who they blame for bringing crime
  and drug use right outside their front doors. 
  
  Photos taken by DailyMail.com on Wednesday show the grim realities of homelessness in Manhattan, with many people lying on the ground without shoes,
  wearing worn and ragged clothing, using drugs and drinking alcohol, or passed out
  on the sidewalk. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  around 8,000 homeless people living in Midtown Manhattan hotels
  to permanent shelters, saying that the relocation process does not need approval from the governor.
  
  Pictured: A man sleeps on the sidewalk at 46th
  Street and 8th Avenue on Wednesday
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  linked to the high number of homeless people being housed
  there by the city. Pictured: A man holds a needle while sitting against a building
  near 35th Street and Broadway on Wednesday
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The NYPD have now set up a command post and metal barriers in Midtown Manhattan in a bid to crack down on violent crime that is being fueled,
  in part, by an illegal drug market between Penn Station and
  Port Authority Bus Terminal. Police say crime has spiked in that area after hundreds
  of homeless were rehoused there in hotels
  during COVID
  
  
  
  
  
  
  De Blasio addressed the issue at a press briefing on Wednesday where he said he's been waiting nearly a month for Cuomo's authorization to start
  the relocation process of the homeless individuals who were temporarily put up
  in about 60 to 70 hotels near Hells' Kitchen and Times Square during the pandemic 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  At Wednesday's briefing de Blasio said he expects to be able to move all the homeless
  people currently living in hotels - which he estimated to be about 8,
  000 - into shelters by the end of July.  
  
  On May 18, the city Department of Social Services asked the State of
  New York to authorize 'the return of folks in temporary hotel locations to permanent shelter locations,' de Blasio said. 
  
  'It's time to get that clear sign-off from the state, so we
  can move forward. Once we get that sign-off, we can start immediately moving people to shelters and getting back to that work of moving them forward in their lives,' de Blasio said
  Wednesday.
  
  
  
  
  Cuomo's office pushed back against de Blasio's comments
  and said the mayor doesn't need authorization from the governor to relocate the homeless from hotels to shelters after Cuomo lifted
  virtually all COVID-19 restrictions in the state 
  
  'This is something that is going to help us move forward,
  ' he added.
  
  However a spokesman for Cuomo refuted de Blasio's characterization, saying that the governor did not have an issue with the plan so long as all the shelter residents wear masks, even if they are vaccinated. 
  
  Many of the relocated homeless people have blended into the
  area, but others who struggle with mental health issues and substance abuse have become
  a growing presence near people's homes and in high-trafficked tourist destinations. 
  
  Crime in the area - heavily concentrated on Eighth Avenue between Penn Station and the
  Port Authority Bus Terminal near Times Square - has soared this year, according to the NYPD. 
  
  NYPD crime data shows there have been 174 assaults, 150 robberies and four
  shootings that left two tourists injured in that area between January and
  May. 
  
  Police set up a command post and metal barriers in Midtown Manhattan to crack down on violent crime that's
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  A man sits in a doorway near 36th Street and Dyer Avenue on Wednesday
  
  
  
  
  
  Homeless people were seen hanging out  block away from the Indigo
  hotel in Brooklyn
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Local residents have reported seeing fights, have been verbally abused or harassed, seen people spitting -
  despite the ongoing pandemic - and have also seen people looking for,
  or using drugs. A homeless person is seen sleeping on a couch on the Upper West Side in August 
  
  The city has spent $300million on the hotel program since last April, when officials first negotiated a contract with the
  Hotel Association of New York City to find and provide rooms in hotels across the city, according to the New York Post.
  
  
  The initial contract was for $78million, the Post reported,
  but that only covered a fraction of the rooms and hotels that the city needed.
  By October, records from the city comptroller showed, the city had spent $299million on the program.
  
  
  
  In August, de Blasio had said the city was
  beginning to wind down its use of hotels as
  temporary shelters, as positivity rates declined before going back up again after the holiday season.
  
  Then in September, the mayor called conditions in the area surrounding
  the Lucerne Hotel 'not acceptable' after a 60-year-old man was found dead inside the hotel.
  A source told the Post at the time that his death was not
  suspicious and appeared to be linked to natural causes.
  
  But it came amid growing complaints from the wealthy Upper West Side community, who argued
  that the city officials did not get community input before moving the homeless residents into nearby hotels, including the
  Lucerne, which the Post reports, became home to 300 men, many
  of whom were addicted to drugs.
  
  
  
  
  Upper West Side residents have reported seeing homeless men around the hotels urinating in public, openly using drugs and
  passed out on the sidewalk last year
  
  
  
  
  
  A homeless man sleeps on a chair at the corner of W80th Street
  and Broadway in the Upper West Side in September
  
  The residents argued that the new tenants harmed their quality of life by accosting pedestrians; claimed
  they saw some of the men at the hotel use drugs and overdose on sidewalks; and that they were
  responsible for a rise in robberies and burglaries - even though police statistics showed crime remained down in the
  area.
  
  They formed a group, called the West Side Community Organization, after the homeless were quietly brought
  to the hotel, and claimed they saw fight, drug use and people
  spitting - despite the pandemic.
  
  The New York Post at the time also reported that many of the new tenants were sex
  offenders. 
  
  The group urged city officials to relocate the homeless
  individuals, prompting the mayor to begin moving
  the homeless to the Harmonia in Midtown.
  
  But it soon emerged that the men who were being brought
  there were displacing disabled residents at the Harmonia, and advocates for the homeless reacted with
  fury, marching from Carl Schurz Park to Gracie Mansion and demanding that de Blasio resign.
  
  The Department of Homeless Services only paused the relocation in mid-September, though, after the
  Legal Aid filed a lawsuit on their behalf.
  
  
  Roughly one week later, the city announced it would move the residents from the Lucerne
  to a Radisson hotel in the Financial District, prompting residents there to create a
  Facebook page entitled 'Downtown NYCers for Safe Streets.'
  
  'We believe that our residents should have been notified in advance of this possibility and now that it has been agreed to without our knowledge,
  we need to make our voices heard,' the page's description read.
  
  
  A post on the page provided residents with a template to raise their concerns to city officials, and one of the posts on the page reads:
  'I have great compassion for the homeless, but moving them in a few
  blocks from my son where drug use was clear is not appropriate.
  
  
  'These human beings deserve help, not a hotel room with no medical and no
  counseling,' the mother continued. 'And residents deserve to raise their
  kids without fear of witnessing drug use and homeless individuals who are ill screaming day and night yelling
  obscenities on every corner.'
  
  'They are ill, they need help - not a hotel.'
  
  By November, homeless individuals claimed Upper West Side residents were offering them food or money to move out,
  and by the end of the month, a judge had ruled that the homeless
  must be moved out of the Lucerne hotel and into the Radisson.
  
  
  
  
  A group of presumably homeless people pass around a bottle
  of alcohol out in the open at the corner of W79th Street and Broadway in the Upper West Side
  earlier this month
  
  
  
  
  
  Roughly 300 people were moved into the Lucerne Hotel
  quietly in July
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  The announcement that the 'Homeless-to-Hotels' program, though,
  came with mixed reaction. 
  
  Some homeless residents said the private hotel room provided a vastly better
  living experience than sleeping in a shelter, the Times reported, and others said
  they would rather live in the street than go back to living in a shelter.
  
  
  Advocates have also argued that the decision is premature, as the Federal Emergency Management Association has offered to pay for the
  hotels until the end of September, and many
  of the homeless may not be vaccinated.
  
  The city has said that about 6,300 homeless adults had been fully
  vaccinated through its Homeless Services sites, but officials
  did not know how many had been vaccinated elsewhere.
  
  
  More than 17,000 adults are in the shelter program, the
  Times reported.
  
  Citywide, though, data shows 65 percent of adults have received at least one dose
  of the COVID vaccine, and 58 percent are fully vaccinated.
  
  
  The infection rate was down to 1 percent on Wednesday, and there have only been an average of 207 cases over the past week, the City Department of Health reported.
  
  
  
  
  
  The city started moving homeless residents into the hotels last April.
  Here a homeless person is seen entering the Double Tree on West
  36th Street in Manhattan
  
  
  
  New York
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