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of Labor Bureau of International Labor Affairs INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - The government has reported a range of estimates for the number of
child trafficking victims. Some 5,000
to 12,000 girls may be trafficked for commercial sexual exploitation
annually, and as many as 200,000 trafficked Nepalese girls are estimated to
reside in Indian brothels.. Girls as young as 9 years old have been
trafficked. In 2001, a local NGO
recorded 265 cases of girl trafficking victims, of which 34 percent were
below 16 years of age. While
trafficking of children often leads to their sexual exploitation, there is
also demand for trafficked boys and girls to work in the informal labor
sector. A 2001, study found 30 percent
of commercial sex workers in Bur of Democracy,
Human Rights & Labor - Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 CHILDREN - Violence against children was
rarely prosecuted, and abuse primarily manifested itself in trafficking of
children. Forced prostitution and trafficking in young girls remained serious
problems. TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS - Local NGOs combating
trafficking estimated that 25 thousand to 200 thousand women and girls were
lured or abducted annually into Hundreds of women and girls
returned voluntarily or were rescued and repatriated to the country annually
after having worked as commercial sex workers in Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) - 2005 [87] While noting the efforts
taken by the State party to eliminate the phenomenon of sexual exploitation
of children, the Committee is gravely concerned by the large number of
children in the State party who are sexually exploited. The Committee is of
the view that insufficient efforts have been taken to protect the
particularly vulnerable groups of children from sexual exploitation.
Specifically, the Committee notes with concern that children of lower castes
are disproportionately represented among the sex workers, and about the
persistence of the customary practice known as badi, whereby young girls of
the Bedi caste are forced into prostitution. [88] The Committee is also
concerned at the low rate of prosecutions for perpetrators of sexual
exploitation of children and that there is little in the way of public
campaigns to educate the population of the laws governing sexual
exploitation. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights 18. The Committee is deeply
concerned at the high number of women and girls being trafficked for prostitution.
The Committee also regrets the continuation of polygamy and the practices or
dowry, Deuki and prostitution among the Bedi caste, particularly in
rural areas. 35. The Committee is deeply
concerned that the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the State party is spreading at an
alarming rate due to commercial sex and trafficking of women and children,
and sex tourism. Human
trafficking from Nepal on rise Trafficking of Nepalese women and
children into India, especially from the western districts, has increased
significantly in recent days due to lax security at border checkpoints. A large number of women and
children are being trafficked into India from checkpoints west of Butwal, representatives of several Indian and Nepalese
non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and security officials stated during an
interaction on 'controlling cross-border human trafficking'. Prostitution
of Nepalese girls rampant in Indian brothel ''Young girls are trafficked from ECPAT:
Fifth Report on implementation of the Agenda for Action [DOC] [B]
COUNTRY UPDATES – Report on Laws and Legal
Procedures Concerning CSEC in Nepal The paper finds that children in Grinding poverty and a sense of
duty to family can push some girls as young as seven across national borders
and into prostitution, according to experts at a UN global women's
conference. At a discussion on
trafficking of women and girls on Tuesday, one activist referred to these
elemental forces in the case of girls taken from their homes in Child
Prostitution in Nepal/India Every year, thousands of Nepalese
girls, some as young as 11 are sent to or procured for brothels in the big
Indian cities, like One
Woman's Work to Stop Child Prostitution in Nepal About 10,000 girls, most ages 9 to
16, are sold each year into the sex trade of neighboring Child Hierodulic
Servitude in India and Nepal Hierodulic child prostitution is a
generic term that the Society uses to describe religiously sanctioned child
prostitution, and, specifically, those children engaged in religious cult
prostitution. However, nowadays, this
original purpose has gone and, after dedication — usually at the age of 5 to
7 years of age — the child is often deflowered by the priest and then sold to
the highest bidder. SYNOPSIS - The BBC's Martha Kearney traveled
to II.
EXTENT - A survey conducted
by Indian Health Organization of a red light area of Tulasa and the Horrors of Child Prostitution - Sold And Resold Body And Soul Tulasa was abducted from Thankut village
in Bagmati district near Kathmandu and then smuggled to Children
and Women Trafficking in Nepal It was 10 years ago.13-year-old
Mira of Nepal was offered a job as a domestic worker in Mumbai, India.
Instead she arrived at a brothel on Mumbai's Falkland Road, where tens of
thousands of young women are displayed in row after row of zoo-like animal
cages. Her father had been duped into giving her to a trafficker. When she
refused to have sex, she was dragged into a torture chamber in a dark alley
used for 'breaking-in' new girls. She was locked in a narrow, windowless room
without food or water. On the fourth day, one of the goondas
(thug) wrestled her to the floor and banged her head against the concrete.
When she awoke, she was naked. Later she was raped by the goonda
and red chilly powder was put into her vagina. Afterwards, she complied with
their demands. The madam told Mira that she had been sold to the brothel for
75,000 rupees (about US$ 1,000), that she had to work until she paid off her
debt. Now when she returned back to her house and told that she was carrying
AIDS she was prejudiced from her family and society so she is staying in
rehabilitation center in Kathmandu. Millions
Suffer in Sex Slavery
As many as 7,000 Nepali girls as young as 9 are sold annually into
India's red-light districts, 200,000 in the last decade. All material used herein
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