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MUMBAI
India's financial capital Mumbai - often known as the city of opportunities - has emerged as a major destination for global sex trafficking with girls from distant countries being trafficked to the city, officials said on Thursday.
At an international conference on the trafficking of women and girls in Mumbai, officials announced more robust policing and plans to invoke a stringent Indian law against organised crime to snare traffickers.
"Earlier, girls were being trafficked to Mumbai from the poorer states of India and also from Bangladesh, Nepal and Myanmar,"said Vijaya Rahatkar, chair of Maharashtra State Women's Commission, that organised the Mumbai conference along with anti-trafficking charity International Justice Mission."Now girls from Philippines, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan are being brought to Mumbai,"Rahatkar said on the sidelines of the conference attended by delegates from countries battling trafficking including Ghana, Kenya and Bolivia.
