Prostitution in Nepal
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Nepal is currently the largest "sending country" for human trafficking in India. It is estimated that nearly half of all Mumbai's sex workers working in brothels are imported from Nepal.
It is estimated that more than 150,000 rural women and girl children are trafficked to Indian brothels and cities alone for commercial sex. Though prostitution is illegal in Nepal thousand of prostitutes work in Kathmandu,the capital city of Nepal. There are a lot of massage parlor in Thamel, a tourist area of Kathmandu, where sex for money is easily available. Girls can be easily picked up from dance bars in Kathmandu but clients must fix the rate before he takes out the girl. Another form of prostitution is in cabin restaurant where clients go and drink with girls, afterwards clients pick out a girl and leave.
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- Rape For Profit -- Human Rights Watch Report
- Guilty Without Trial
- Gomare et al. (2002) Adopting strategic approach for reaching out to inaccessible population viz Abstract WePeF6707F abstract, The XIV International AIDS Conference.
- India - Facts on Trafficking and Prostitution from the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW)
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