Women, Bought and Sold in Nepal

According to UNICEF close to 7000 women and girls are trafficked from Nepal into India, and close to 200,000 of them are now working in brothels all around India. This violation of their right to freedom often occurs when a stranger offers these needy girls a fake job or when a family member sells a woman off in order to be able to maintain themselves. Some non profit groups such as the Caritas internationalis are fighting all throughout Nepal, trying to prevent the trafficking of Nepalese women. These groups work with border police officers by training them, teaching them to identify the signs of women who might be a victim of human trafficking. This effort however, is often defeated by the pimps who bribe the border police officers into allowing them to traffic women. This article displays a journalist’s encounter with human trafficking in Nepal.