This is unfortunately not a one-off incident. There are thousands of vulnerable girls facing similar situations across India, falling prey to trafficking
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Dr. Joseph Dâsouza is president of the Dalit Freedom Network and of the All India Christian Council
Ravish Kumar, an Indian journalist and the 2019 recipient of the Ramon Magsaysay Award, recently shared on his personal blog that he is battling COVID-19. He wrote that our nation has become like an empty tumbler â we have nothing left, not even the essential oxygen we need to breathe.Â
He is right.
Indiaâs second wave of COVID-19 has collapsed the poor, the middle class and the rich into one sea of humanity, all of whom are gasping for oxygen and knowing that timely care would have saved tens of thousands of lives.