India's missing children

Published: Nov. 10, 2020, 3:01 a.m.

In India, a child goes missing every eight minutes. BBC South Asia Correspondent Rajini Vaidyanathan meets the family of one of those children and follows their attempts to trace their daughter. It\u2019s a journey that takes us into the murky world of human trafficking, where children are bought and sold as commodities \u2013 forced to work long hours in factories, brothels or as domestic servants. And far from slowing the trade, the Coronavirus has fuelled demand for child labour and led to an increase in child trafficking as \u2018middle-men\u2019 target communities worst-hit by the pandemic.