Combating Trafficking

Trafficking of persons is a phenomenon that survives in most developing countries, especially Nepal and India , since time unknown. Initially, trafficking in Nepal was envisaged as women being coerced either for commercial sex-work or deceived with promises of high-income jobs or cajoled to marry with the fake-husbands who are often brokers to traffic women, especially for prostitution. Trafficking is not just about women being forced for sex-work. Trafficking is a felony that can happen in humans, especially women, girls and children, for sex-work, slavery and even for the removal of bodily organs. Women, girls and children are transported to other cities or different countries and by force made to prostitute, work as domestic servants and even slain for their organs. Nepal in particular, has enormous number of women, girls and children trafficked every year. Women and young girls are trafficked and sold for a huge sum of money in brothels and other working areas in different parts of the world especially India and the Middle East .

The law is strangely very lenient towards trafficking and has often failed to incarcerate the perpetrators and have acquitted plenty of criminals of complicity. FWLD takes vital steps to stop trafficking by effectively enforcing for more severe laws against the crime and also pressurizing for reformation of laws that fail to stop inspiring trafficking. We take initiatives to provide legal counseling to the victims.

Translation of Trafficking Bill (in pdf)

Advocacy leaflet on SAARC convention on preventing trafficking  (in pdf)