Nepal

Within humankind, identity shapes different ways of navigating the world one lives in. Factors affecting identity include religion, ethnicity, and political beliefs. These “ways of living,” shaped by identity, will be referred to from here on as “cultures.” Human rights are intended to afford protections to the human population as a whole, but because various cultures have additional vulnerabilities, it is often the case that they require additional protections granted to them. Contrarily, at…

This is likely to occur in countries such as Thailand, and Nepal. Traffickers will find the poorest families, those with drugs or alcohol problems or serious medical problems. They will then assure the family that they can provide a better future for the child and offer a payment (Lee). For the purpose of this…

Nursing is a noble profession in which rights and ethics are inseparable aspects. International Council of Nurses (2015) defined nursing as a self-governing and combined care of all kinds of people regardless of their age, gender, communities, illness or health and in all environments. Nursing incorporates the health promotion, prevention of disease, and care of the sick, disabled and people with chronic conditions. The key roles of nursing are advocacy, enhancement of a safe and sound…

The novel Sold, by Patricia McCormick, follows a young girl, Lakshmi, a thirteen year old girl, and her family living in a small village in Nepal struggling to make ends meet. Lakshmi’s biological father has died so her mother remarries an alcoholic but it is considered that any man is better than no man at all. When the Himalayan monsoons destroy her family's crops, Lakshmi’s step-father meets a woman who claims she will take Lakshmi to be a maid in the city, and he sends her away. After what…

“What Is Home” What is home? If you look up the definition of the home it would come out to be, Home is a permanent place where one lives. Nevertheless, the definition of a home goes much beyond its visible description. A home is the place where you not only feel comfortable, but the place you look forward to living in every day. It surrounds you with a community that will always be there for you. A home is a place that makes you nostalgic if you are gone for long periods of time. A home is not…

I came to Australia on 16th June 2017 on a Refugee Humanitarian Visa. I was born in a refugee camp and lived my whole life as a refugee in Eastern Nepal. I was born in 1992 the same year when my parents left our country Bhutan. I didn't see what the Bhutan government did to our community but I saw and felt how hard life could be for a refugee for 25 years. The scarcity of proper food, health care, clothes and identity left most part of my life full of struggle. I had the tag of refugee which was…

In the book, Human Trafficking Interdisciplinary Perspective McCabe cited, “The US State Department’s Trafficking Protection Act (2000) further identifies severe forms of human trafficking as: (1) sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion or in which the person induced to perform such an act has not attained 18 years of age…” (p. 134). This is a pretty self-explanatory definition; it appears to easily identify what a victim of sex trafficking is,…

However, the tallest mountain is actually Mauna Kea in Hawaii, which measures 33,480 feet (10,205 m) from its underwater base to its peak, according to Guinness World Records. (Most of Mauna Kea is underwater.) Everest is located at the border of Nepal to the south and China or Tibet on the north. It is over 60 million years old. Everest was formed by the movement of the Indian tectonic plate pushing up and against the Asian plate. Everest grows by about a quarter of an inch (0.25") every…

 Karen D. Pyke and Denise L. Johnson, “Asian American Women and Racialized Femininities: “Doing” Gender Across Cultural Worlds,” Gender & Society, 2003. Incorporating race and sexual orientation in a social constructionist system, the creators analyze the way that second-age Asian American young ladies portrayed over ethnic and standard settings, and in addition their presumptions about the idea of Asian and white femininities. This study of meetings with 100 little girls of Korean and…

Kristine and Free the Slaves travelled to multiple countries around the world documenting and providing relief within different slave industries (Kristine, 2012). The locations and industries included brick kilns and quarries in Nepal and India, sex trafficking in Nepal, the textile industry in India, and the fishing industry and gold mines in Ghana (Kristine, 2012). Kristine documented photos of individuals that were enslaved while holding candles to illuminate their stories to the rest of…