In a raid conducted by Freedom Firm and local police authorities in Ratlam last Friday, ten girls were rescued–  five minor,  three...

Eight girls were rescued today in a raid conducted by Freedom Firm and local police in Ratlam, Madhya Pradesh. Of the 8 girls rescued,...

On Friday, Freedom Firm rescued 3 girls in a raid done in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh. The police were very cooperative and the raid went as...

Freedom Firm’s interventions team and local crime police rescued three minor girls in a raid conducted on Friday in Sangli, Maharashtra....

The first time I went to the red-light area was when I was interviewing for a position with Freedom Firm. Greg asked me if I wanted to...

In May 2012, our team of investigators found five girls who were forced into prostitution in a hotel on the outskirts of Nashik,...

They told me they would give me work and offered me juice. After drinking it, I began to feel drowsy and could not speak.

*Meera Pal lived with her mother and brother. They were poor, so Meera began to work as a housemaid at 13-years-old. When she was 15, she...

First Rescue in Allahabad, Jan 2015

February 12th 2014, started out like any other day. Kumar and Mukesh had identified a minor girl and were on their way to Pune’s...

*Mayanka's story. A first-person narrative. I lived with my father, mother, brother, and sister-in-law. We were relatively well-off...

Orphaned in childhood, Gayatri* and her sister lived with their grandmother. When she was still very young, Gayatri fell in love and...

Sandhya* was rescued in March 2011 from Nagpur. Being deaf and dumb, it was easy for the brothel keepers to take advantage of her as she...

Nimu* grew up in a village in West Bengal. She remembers a time of abject poverty in her family when she was young. It was difficult for...

Mina’s* rescue came as a breakthrough in an area where our investigation team encountered numerous pitfalls in the last nine months....

An excerpt of Greg Malstead's investigation report Meerganj, Uttar Pradesh. Setting out in the evening, we took a cycle rickshaw to the...

Last year, Meerganj's red-light area was closed for business because of Freedom Firm's insistent work in Allahabad, a city in Uttar...

First-person narrative When I was in twelfth grade, I used to face a lot of opposition from my father. I enjoyed studying, but my father...

First-person narrative My parents live at Chitradurga, Karnataka, and are unaware if I am alive or dead. I work at Ruhamah and the thing...

Suman's story. A first-person narrative. My family was poor and my father was the only member earning a wage. He stayed in the city for...