by Hritika Sharma in Nepalnews, Mar 15, 2023
The National Human Rights Commission’s data estimates that more than a million Nepalis are vulnerable to human trafficking. Economic necessities, illegal migration, lack of awareness, and insufficient implementation of the Anti-Human trafficking law provide feasibility for human traffickers to operate throughout Nepal.
Nepal’s Human Rights Commission report reveals how thousands of women and girls are trafficked from Nepal in a single year. Nepal’s open border with India also makes it convenient for traffickers to smuggle victims from Nepal into India or vice versa. In the whole of South Asia, women and children form the majority of victims. South Asian lands are in fact being used as sending, receiving, and transit points by human traffickers worldwide. In the case of children, several frauds happen in the name of educational opportunities abroad. Unaware parents trust their children to brokers who traffick their children away into forced labor and sex trafficking.
Even though the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation Convention on Preventing and Combating Trafficking of Women and Children for Prostitution exists as a regional law enforcement agreement in South Asia, despite its condemnation of human trafficking, it has continued to flourish in the region.
According to senior legal practitioner Meera Dhungana of Forum for Women, Law and Development Nepal, domestic violence and financial discrimination make women more susceptible in Nepal to getting trafficked than men. …..
Nepal also is a destination country where victims are brought in. “The prevailing law on human trafficking in Nepal fails to recognize and prosecute the crime of human trafficking committed in Nepal itself. Many women are brought inside the country from other nations for sexual slavery,” says senior legal practitioner Meera Dhungana of the Forum for Women, Law, and Development (FWLD). …..
https://nepalnews.com/s/issues/human-trafficking-threats-continue-to-grow
