Corona Aftermath and Humanitarian Crisis
Foresight and preparedness can protect the lives of crores of women, men and children avoid an impending humanitarian crisis. Women and children are on the fringes or out of the socioeconomic umbrella are the most vulnerable one. Grim economic conditions, hunger, low work opportunities, making them the easiest target for the organizing crime network of human trafficking. This will trigger decades of inter-generational bondage and wage –less labour. Hundreds and thousands of children will be enslaved; will be applied as a commodity to offset the manufacturing losses (increase profit margins) by cheap/child labour. A girl from a family which has lost its means of subsistence and survival is at the risk of commercial sexual exploitation. No more than ever the civil society collaboration is needed to tackle this problem. · At government, civil society (NGOs) or within in an individual capacity, ensure last mile delivery of child protection programs (education, nutrition, he