INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:

Kathmandu, August 15 Inspector General of Police Sarbendra Khanal has stressed the need for all stakeholders to work together to make

concerted efforts towards ending human trafficking, a pressing issue dogging the nation. Speaking at an interaction programme on

‘Partnership Role of Stakeholders in the National Campaign against Human Trafficking& organised in Kathmandu today, he suggested that

coordination and collaboration among stakeholder agencies would help dismantle the complicated web of human trafficking that spanned beyond

the border. &All stakeholders need to work together to bring to book the racketeers operating one of the darkest realities on earth,& IGP

Khanal said, adding that a special committee would be formed to make the fight against human trafficking more effective

The committee will comprise representatives from all stakeholders. He said Nepal Police had developed and adopted a strategy to ensure

safety of trafficking victims, their rescue and rehabilitation; capacity development of Anti-human Trafficking Bureau and its expansion in

all provinces; coordination with the Interpol for rescue of victims and vulnerable people abroad and heightened surveillance at borders

Its anti-trafficking strategy also included coordination with stakeholder agencies at Tribhuvan International Airport and public awareness

among population vulnerable to trafficking. Eshor Raj Poudel, director general at the Department of Immigration, said it was working in

close coordination with Nepal Police against the modern form of slavery, and emphasised concerted efforts of all stakeholders for ending the

problem

Director General at the Department of Foreign Employment Hari Gyawali, Joint Attorney Lokraj Parajuli, Joint Secretary at the Ministry of

Women, Children and Senior Citizens Rudra Sharma and Senior Superintendent of Police Ishwar Babu Karki at Anti-human Trafficking Bureau said

they were making necessary efforts to control and end organised crime from their respective places. Evidences suggested that Nepal was not

only the country of origin of human trafficking, but it had also become the country of transit for the human smugglers

In 2017, two Sri Lankan women were rescued by police in Kathmandu

They were being trafficked to Malaysia with Nepal as their transit. Human traffickers were exploiting Nepali women and girls through sex

trafficking and domestic servitude in Nepal, India, Gulf countries, Asia and Kenya, said a report released by the US Department of

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