A 16-year-old girl with her hand decorated with henna stands inside a protection home on the outskirts of New Delhi November 9, 2012. REUTERS/Mansi Thapliyal/Files
MUMBAI: Technology innovations such as a free recruitment service for low-skilled workers in Cambodia and mobile apps for on-demand domestic workers in India could help curb trafficking by eliminating fraudulent middlemen, their developers say.
Cambodia and India are among source, transit and destination countries for men, women and children forced into labour and sex trafficking. Most victims are poor and uneducated, lured from villages by the promise of good jobs in neighbouring countries.
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