Thousands of Nepali
girls working in Indian sex market
- Nepal News
17000
Nepali girls in indian sex market’
There are 17,000 Nepali women forced into prostitution in
India’s Delhi, Mumbai, Pune and Calcutta redlight centres alone. Anju
Chhetri and Manju thapa of the
Asmita women’s publication group arrived at this number by conducting
on-the-spot investigation in every brothel in the redlight areas of India’s four
cities. As claimed by Chhetri and Thapa, 15,000 Nepali women in Mumbai, 300 in
Delhi, 500 in Pune and 1,200 in Calcutta are sex workers. Chhetri and Thapa
also claimed that over 5,000 Nepali women are taking up the world’s oldest
profession in Gorakpur, Lucknow, Allahabad, Surat and Nagpur redlight areas.
Speaking at the workshop related to the women and children
trafficking, media engagement, study, conclusion and exchange of experiences
held in Nepalgunj yesterday, Thapa admitted though that they could not claim
that their research was 100% true. She added that an earlier estimate, which had
put the number of Nepali women sex workers in India at between 1 to 2 lakh, had
been proved baseless.
They said they had collected the figure by visiting Mumbai’s
main brothels – Kamati, Bhiundi, Jamuna Mansion, Bareli, Grand Road and Bhandrup;
Puna’s Budharpet; Calcutta’s sonagachhi, Kidderpore, Bowbazar, Kalighat, and
Delhi’s GB Road. Thapa pointed out that most of these sex workers were below 18
years of age. Anju Chhetri said they talked personally to the Nepali women in
the brothels of India in course of doing research. Chhetri added, “Most of them
fall prey to the avarice of family members. Local brokers come second in the
line of the process of selling them there.” Speaking at the workshop, Sabin
Gurung of Maiti Nepal quoted the International Labour Organization (ILO)
statistics, saying over 10,000 Neplai women are trafficked to India into the sex
trade every year. Journalist Purna Lal Chuke, who presided over the workshop,
said that the although researchers and rescuers did not face big problems in
rescuing the women, the main problem was rehabilitating them. Till date, Maiti
Nepal has rehabilitated 1,500 trafficked women.
Source: The Himalayan
Times, March 26, 2005
keyterms: sex market, indian, trafficking, girls, slaves
Anuradha
Koirala - 2010 CNN Hero of the Year
In November 2010, Anuradha Koirala from Maiti Nepal, an organization fighting
human trafficking and sex slavery was named "2010 CNN Hero of the Year"
"Since 1993, she has helped rescue more than 12,000 women and girls. Through
her organization Maiti Nepal, she has provided more than a shelter for these
young women and girls rescued from sex slavery, she has created a home for them.
It is a place for them to heal, go to school, learn a skill, and for some who
are infected with HIV/AIDS, it is the place where they can spend their days
surrounded by love.
Demi Moore sees plight of sex slaves
Actress Demi Moore partners with CNN Freedom Project for a compelling
documentary. A passionate advocate for victims of human trafficking herself,
Moore travels to Nepal to meet 2010 CNN Hero of the Year Anuradha Koirala and
some of the thousands of women and girls Koirala’s organization has rescued from
forced prostitution
