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Sexual slavery without borders: trafficking for commercial sexual exploitation in India
Trafficking in women and children is a gross violation of human rights. However, this does not prevent an estimated 800 000 women and children to be trafficked each year across international borders. Eighty per cent of trafficked persons end in forced sex work. India has been identified as one of the Asian countries where trafficking for commercial sexual exploitation has reached alarming levels. While there is a considerable amount of internal trafficking from one state to another or within states, India has also emerged as a international supplier of trafficked women and children to the Gulf States and South East Asia, as well as a destination country for women and girls trafficked for commercial sexual exploitation from Nepal and Bangladesh. Trafficking for commercial sexual exploitation is a highly profitable and low risk business that preys on particularly vulnerable populations. This paper presents an overview of the trafficking of women and girls for sexual exploitation (CSE) in India; identifies the health impacts of CSE; and suggest strategies to respond to trafficking and related issues
Large scale<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"> </i>propagation of an exotic edible bamboo, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Phyllostachys pubescens </i>Mazel ex H. De Lehale (Moso Bamboo) using seeds<sup>†</sup>
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vitro propagation, seeds of P.pubescens were treated with different
concentrations of gibberellic acid (GA3) and germination of seeds
was tested both in plastic pots as well as by direct sowing in the nursery
beds. Maximum seed germination was achieved when treated with 200 mgL–1
(w/v) GA3. For in vitro
propagation, an exposure of nodal explants from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">in vitro raised seedlings to 0.2 mgL–1 1–phenyl–3–(1,2,3–thiadiazol–5–yl) urea and 1 mgL–1
kinetin supplemented medium for 30 days and thereafter to hormone free
Murashige and Skoog basal medium resulted in axillary shoot proliferation. For
rooting, in vitro raised shoots were
exposed to MS medium containing 2 mgL–1 indole-3-butyric acid for 15
days and then shifted to hormone free medium. On an average, 2.8 shoots were
obtained in 75% of the cultures within
4 weeks. Such in vitro raised plants
were successfully hardened and shifted to field conditions