Human trafficking is a major problem in the world. About 700,000 to 2 million people, mainly women and children are being trafficked every year. It is the third highly profitable illegal trade.
About 10 million trafficked people are surviving and working at risk. Human trafficking gives the annual profit of $5billion to $7billion, after drug smuggling and gunrunning. It is the highest growing form of forced labor.
Despite many International Conventions and Optional Protocols against trafficking for slave trade, millions of children are still being trapped by this heinous crime for forced labor, domestic servitude, forced beggary, illegal adoption, forced marriage, criminal activities and to become soldiers, camel jockeys and for other labour exploitations.
In Nepal, every year 12000 women and children are trafficked for sex trade into India for prostitution, according to the data of ILO. Twenty percent of the Nepali women trafficked to India for sex trade is the girls below 16 years of age.
Except for sex trade, thousand of Nepali is trafficked into India to work in carpet factories in Bhadio (Mirjapur), circus (e.g. Firojabad), potato farms, road constructions in Shimla, forced beggary (e.g. Banaras), domestic child labour in Delhi, Calcutta, Mumbai and to the Middle East.
Demystifying the belief that only girls from specific geographical areas and community are being trafficked, this crime has expanded to every area and community including boys and men.
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