A Situational Analysis of Child Sex Tourism in Nepal (Kathmandu ...

2.5. Operational definitions
Child: Any person male or female; residing in Nepal at the time of research and under the
age of 18.
Tourist: Any person; male or female, not originally from Nepal and/ or have foreign
citizenship and visits Nepal for short period of time.
Child Sex Tourism: The sexual use/abuse of children by the tourists and/ or the visits of
tourists specially planned for the purpose of sexual use/abuse of children, regardless of
commercial gain by the children.
Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children: Sexual use of children where the sexual
activity with the children is bartered for in cash, kind or any other form of consideration.
Sexual Relationships: All relationships where there is sexual contact with children
including kissing, fondling, showing pornographic pictures, taking nude pictures etc.
2.6. Implementing Organisation
Established in 1987, Child Workers in Nepal Concerned Centre (CWIN) is a pioneer
organisation in Nepal for the rights of the child and against child labour. CWIN is an
advocacy organisation for the child's rights with focus on children living and working
under the most difficult circumstances. CWIN's main areas of concern are child labour,
street children, child marriage, bonded labour, trafficking of children, children in conflict
with laws and commercial-sexual exploitation of children. As a concerned organisation
for children at-risk, CWIN has been also undertaking a number of social, support and
rehabilitation activities through its various programmes.
As a watchdog in the field of child rights in the country, CWIN acts as a voice for
children through lobbying, campaign and pressure to the government to protect and
promote children's rights in the country, and to end all kinds of exploitation, abuse and
discrimination against children. And it is in this line that this research project on Child
Sex Tourism was undertaken by CWIN.
2.7. Location of the Research
Tourism in Nepal has flourished mostly around urban centres. It is usually through the
contact points based in these urban centres that the tourist groups disperse in the different
parts of Nepal. The research will therefore concentrate on the following sites.
• Kathmandu Valley (Kathmandu, Patan, Bhaktapur) – is known for its cultural
heritage and ancient architecture. The durbar square areas of these places have
been enlisted in the World Heritage List. The rich architecture and amalgamation
of eastern and western culture has been the main attraction of tourism in this
place. Kathmandu, also being the capital of the country, is the central point to go
to other tourist destinations.
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