STOP Trafficking and Oppression of children and women from Stopindia Sverige on Vimeo.
STOP was initiated as a project under Ramola Bhar Charitable Trust in the year 1998, as a direct fall out of the Global March against Child Labour, where the Managing Trustee, Ms. Roma Debabrata was a core Marcher. However, STOP's activities can be traced back to Hamida's case, a 10-year-old Bangladeshi girl, who was brought to India in 1992. She was brutally raped by the man who brought her here and by some of his friends who were in Delhi Police. She then spent four years in a children's home in Delhi while her case was dragged out in various courts. Activists (who formed STOP) initially offered translation services to the child who only spoke Bengali, later they got actively involved in ensuring a safe return for Hamida and thus, followed the Hamida case from the lower courts to the Supreme Court.
STOP actually began as a movement to challenge the complex mechanisms related to trafficking and sexual exploitation that remain hidden from public view. However, through a strong and cohesive network of partners ranging from civil society, policy makers, law enforcement agencies, the judiciary and corporate sector STOP has succeeded in recovering and empowering innumerable survivors of trafficking.
STOP's activities are overseen from its office in Delhi, but the organization's influence extends far beyond India's capital city.