In the middle of financial capital of India, Mumbai, one fourteen year old Nepali girl is waking up to a horror she can hardly believe. She just found out that she has been sold to one of a brothel that dots the alleyways of Mumbai by the hundred. She was either lured by the promise of work and better life in the big city or smitten in love by a predator that target innocent young girls and traffic them across the border. She is a victim of women and child trafficking that force them into underground sex industry and has plagued the country side of one of the poorest nation on earth, Nepal. Human trafficking especially, young women and children for prostitution and underground sex industry across the border has become one of major social and
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“The UN global Initiative of Fight Human Trafficking estimates 12.3 million people are victim of forced labour worldwide, 2.5 million of which have been trafficked.” (Ms Koirala from MAITI Nepal visits UWCSEA, Http://www.maitinepal.org/). Most of these trafficked women and children originate from some of the poorest nations in the world. Over “900 million of the world’s poor who are considered most vulnerable” (Khatri Nayan, 2) live in a small coalition of seven developing countries (India, Nepal, Pakistan, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Maldives) also known as (SAARC) …show more content…
Although various programs has been ongoing for decades and Nepal has tried to satisfies a certain level of compliance with the international legal standards to curtail all women and child trafficking and any discrimination against women at its root cause, the lack of resources, non-collaborative ministries and agencies that further lack of adequate expertise in the various sectors have proved insufficient to stop or increase in the cross-border trafficking of women and
“The UN global Initiative of Fight Human Trafficking estimates 12.3 million people are victim of forced labour worldwide, 2.5 million of which have been trafficked.” (Ms Koirala from MAITI Nepal visits UWCSEA, Http://www.maitinepal.org/). Most of these trafficked women and children originate from some of the poorest nations in the world. Over “900 million of the world’s poor who are considered most vulnerable” (Khatri Nayan, 2) live in a small coalition of seven developing countries (India, Nepal, Pakistan, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Maldives) also known as (SAARC) …show more content…
Although various programs has been ongoing for decades and Nepal has tried to satisfies a certain level of compliance with the international legal standards to curtail all women and child trafficking and any discrimination against women at its root cause, the lack of resources, non-collaborative ministries and agencies that further lack of adequate expertise in the various sectors have proved insufficient to stop or increase in the cross-border trafficking of women and