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Press Release HR/1846 27 August 1979

A representative of the Anti-Slavery Society for the Protection of Human Rights said all of the disabilities imposed by aapartheid on Africans affected children even more severely. Children were kept subservient through poor cducation and it was common for businessmen from the cities to travel to rural ar cas to pur chase the services of young children as domestic servants.

The

Traffic in persons and exploitation of the prostitution of others: Group heard a statement from a representative of the Minority Rights Group con crning the dowry system in India which, in her view, was a very old form of trafficking in persons. She brought to the Group's attention recent press reports on the alleged burning or beating to death of wives in several parts of India, apparently because the husband or his family had found the dowry inadequate.

In the view of one member, the dowry system was a pernicious form of traffic in persons since it involved sexual relations for financial consideration