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Female comic superhero fights India’s sex trafficking
- Tuesday | 26th November, 2019
MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A female superhero will use her powers to fight sex crimes in India and the stigma that trafficking survivors face, in the third instalment of a comic series due to be released this week. Priya, a rape survivor-turned superhero who flies around on a tiger, fought her abusers and helped acid attack victims in the last two editions of the “Priya’s Shakti” comic. In the new comic, which can be downloaded for free from Tuesday, Priya rescues sex trafficking victims and challenges the communities that refuse to accept them on their return home. “People in first world countries think of sex trafficking as a third world problem. The “Priya’s Shakti” series has been downloaded more than 500,000 times and read by about 26 million people worldwide, Devineni said.
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