On the season finale of the MISSING podcast, host Leena Kejriwal looks to a positive future – to see how on-ground initiatives have made an impact, and how technology can be a gamechanger in the prevention of human trafficking and sexual exploitation. Prabir Mishra, the Key Programme Manager of the Missing Link Trust’s rural programme in the Sundarbans, Vineet Kumar Founder and President of the CyberPeace Foundation, Tom Farrell, the Global Head of Safeguarding Alliances at British cyber-safety ...
Oct 02, 2022•48 min•Season 1Ep. 8
As we near the end of this season of the MISSING podcast, this episode looks at the process of reintegration and rehabilitation of survivors of human trafficking and the stigma they face in society. Sabina, a trafficking survivor that the Missing Link Trust has worked with, courageously and candidly opens up about her trafficking story, and narrates her experience of being rescued and reintegrated back with her family. Leena also speaks to Priti Patkar, a social worker and human rights activist ...
Sep 25, 2022•47 min•Ep. 7
On the MISSING podcast this week, we’re taking a look at the subject of sexual delinquency and children in conflict with law. Sharing their insights on this episode are Puneeta Roy, Founder Trustee of The Yuva Ekta Foundation, who has been working with young people in conflict with law for over a decade, and cyber psychologist and psychotherapist Nirali Bhatia, who is well known for analysing online behaviour, counselling cybercrime victims and creating awareness on cyber bullying. They tell us ...
Sep 18, 2022•42 min•Season 1Ep. 6
On today’s episode of the MISSING podcast, we’re exploring the effects of pornography on adolescent sexuality, along with clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst, and author Dr. Danielle Knafo, who is a professor at Long Island University’s clinical psychology doctoral program, and an associate clinical professor at New York University's postdoctoral program in psychoanalysis. Also joining us on the show is human rights activist, researcher, and founder of the NGO HAQ: Centre for Child Rights, Enak...
Sep 11, 2022•42 min•Season 1Ep. 5
This episode of the MISSING podcast dives into the dark underbelly of the internet to understand cyber sex trafficking and how its networks operate online. To guide us through, we have Supreme Court of India Advocate Ravi Kant, who is a Founder Member and President of Shakti Vahini, a national-level organization that has been pioneering the fight against human trafficking, and Dr. Karnika Seth, an Indian lawyer, writer, educator and policymaker, who practices in the Supreme Court of India, and a...
Sep 04, 2022•45 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Today, on MISSING, we examine the subject of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM). On this episode, we have Sebastian Edassery, the Director & Chief Security Officer at Deloitte, South Asia, who is also associated with organisations like Interpol, the International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (ICMEC), and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), and Dr. Debarati Halder, an advocate, award winning author, speaker, cyber crime victim counsellor and professor of law. Th...
Aug 28, 2022•36 min•Season 1Ep. 3
This week, on MISSING, we delve into the problem of child marriage in India. We are joined by development professional and child rights activist Bharti Ali, the co-founder and currently Executive Director of HAQ: Centre for Child Rights, who has been working on issues concerning gender and child rights for over 29 years, and Baitali Ganguly, a founder member of Jabala Action Research Organisation, an NGO based in Kolkata that rescues and rehabilitates survivors of trafficking. They give us an ex...
Aug 21, 2022•43 min•Season 1Ep. 2
On this episode, we explore the role of poverty in sexual exploitation and trafficking, through our conversations with Suresh Kumar, the Executive Director of Centre DIRECT, who has been fighting against child trafficking in Bihar for over 20 years, and Hasina Kharbhih, Founder and Chairperson of Impulse NGO Network, who has spent over two decades working in the Northeastern part of India. They share their insights and experiences of the rural-urban divide, stories of familial trafficking, traff...
Aug 14, 2022•38 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Join Leena Kejriwal, founder of the Missing Link Trust, as she dives deeper into issues around child protection, children in conflict with law, adolescent sexuality, cyber safety, poverty, child marriage, and more. Coming soon.
Aug 05, 2022•2 min
