Day: May 28, 2007

Rape for Profit: Trafficking of Nepali Girls and Women in India’s Brothels (Book)

(Published by Human Rights Watch/Asia) Book description… “Hundreds of thousands of women and children are employed in Indian brothels—many of them lured or kidnapped from Nepal and sold into conditions of virtual slavery… Both the Indian and Nepal governments are complicit in the abuses suffered by trafficking victims… “ My thoughts… The stories — of women kidnapped and sold by family friends or brothers or even fathers — reveal how Nepal’s and India’s social, political […]

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