Nepal is a source country for girls and women trafficked into India for sexual exploitation, domestic servitude and forced labor. Victims are lured with promises of good jobs or marriage, sold by family members, or kidnapped by traffickers. Women are mostly trafficked internally for sexual exploitation and internationally for domestic servitude. The government has sustained its efforts to combat trafficking in persons, including a National Plan of Action, a draft Human Trafficking Control Bill, and a National Rapporteur on Trafficking. In 2004, 133 trafficking cases were filed and 32 convictions handed down.
Shared Hope International founded a Village of Hope in a mountain area about 45 minutes outside of Kathmandu. In addition to housing domestically trafficked women and children, the shelter has provided girls trafficked into India from Nepal with the ability to return home safely and begin a new life.
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