Indian society begins to tackle human trafficking

Not only do girls need to be rescued, society's attitude must be adjusted

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Women wait and hope for customers outside closed brothels in a district of Nagpur, Maharashtra, in October 2016. (Photo by Yuji Kuronuma)

YUJI KURONUMA, Nikkei staff writer

NEW DELHI -- The eyes of a woman, in her mid-20s, brightened when she said she can now "tell everything to my parents."

I first met Sasha in 2013 while working on a report on human trafficking in India. "My parents must consider me dead," Sasha told me then.

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