Plight of Trafficked women in Nepal

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Map of Nepal

Introduction

Women are generally subject to discrimination throughout the world in the social, economic, legal, and political spheres.
Gender discrimination exists in varying degrees in the rural and urban areas of Nepal and seriously affects the nutrition, health, education, social status, and economic position of women in those areas.
Women in Nepal are more subject to criminal victimization than males both inside and outside their homes.

This victimization can include harassment, torture, abuse, and sometimes murder, dowry (bride-price) atrocities, child abuse, and trafficking in women for sexual exploitation are and have been a disgrace to Nepalese society

The profile of a trafficked woman is nearly the same in all countries:

She is poor, rustic, and semiliterate or illiterate.
Many mail-order brides come from lower-middle-class backgrounds.
Most trafficked women are single.
Although poverty and lack of alternative opportunities are the main reasons, a woman who has gone through an unsuccessful marriage or a love affair also may be regarded as a potential victim.
By and large, poverty, unemployment, displacement, social exclusion, and powerlessness can turn any woman into a potential victim.
Research conducted by the writer revealed that 49% of the victims’ families were broken in one way or other. Some had no fathers, some were without mothers, and still others were orphans.

The trafficking, victims and the law

The difficulties to combat the human trafficking:

International crime syndicates are involved because of the high profit potential, difficulty of detection, and comparatively low penalties from the law.
it is very difficult to persuade victims to testify against the offenders.
The victims are often frightened about retribution taken against their family members and
ashamed to go home, and
they lack an effective witness protection system (there is a law in place, but it is rarely enforced).
In many cases, the traffickers are also heavily organized.

The act of trafficking is inversely proportional with the amount of risk in carrying out the crime. The higher the risk, a trafficker had to take, the less the chances of trafficking. Therefore, effective law enforcement can definitely decrease the intensity of trafficking and other related crimes.

Traffickers mostly using two methods that is deception and coercion:

Deception:

The trafficking of women and girls is a well-organized crime. In most cases, the families of the victims are deeply involved in the trafficking process as a result of their extreme poverty, avarice, and lack of awareness

Force and Coercion:

The core element of trafficking involves coercive and abusive conditions in which victims are forced to stay

Matrimonial Lure:

Many women are tricked into sexual exploitation through spurious marriages.
Examples from some Web sites include the following advertisements:

www.bluesapphires.net
www.asianeuro.com
www.eastmeetwest.com
www.geocities.com/olik1975/mail_order_bride.html
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0072435
http://ofcs.rottentomatoes.com/movies-10003473/reviews.php

Counterfeit Marriage:

Women are increasingly being deceived and forced into counterfeit marriage alliances.
For instance, Nepali girls are lured into false marriages and then trafficked.
Eg: Vietnamese women are reportedly brought to China to become the wives or concubines of Chinese men who are often interned in remote places from where the women cannot escape.
Web sites are becoming the easiest and effective means to attract many innocents into the net of trafficking.Some advertisements on the Web appear as follows: