✉news WorldHuman Rights first seen 22 h ago, last 2 h ago, peak #16
India's bought brides: women traded as commodities
Reports are spotlighting the practice of bride trafficking in India, where women and girls from poor regions are sold to men, often in northern states with skewed sex ratios, and treated as commodities rather than partners. The coverage highlights how poverty, dowry pressures and gender imbalance fuel the trade, and questions why authorities have largely failed to prosecute buyers and traffickers.
Why now: Fresh international reporting on bride trafficking has renewed public attention to the scale of the practice and the lack of enforcement against it
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