TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS

In Nepal, National Center for Children at Risk (NCCR) was established in 2006 with the joint efforts of
MoWCSW, CCWB, Nepal Police, and civil society organizations in order to seek the missing children;
provide the protection and rehabilitation services to the abandoned/neglected children and carry
out the prevention activities to curtailed missing children phenomenon.
The NCCR also maintains data on the missing and found children. Accordingly, the number of missing
children over the 6-years has been presented in Table 2.16. Data reveal that the reported number of
missing children has considerably declined in the FY of 2013-14 and FY 2014-15 compared to the
previous FYs. Although the main reasons for such a decline are yet to explore, one key reason may
be that parents do not want to report in the Center. Further, the untraced rate – the proportion of
missing children who remain missing – has been more than 40 percent for each of the FY except the
last Fiscal Year. The untraced rate is much higher among girls compared to boys. Whereas the
untraced rates range from 31 to 36 percent for boys, the comparable figures for girls are 49 to 56
percent. This may be due to i) there is high vulnerability of girls being trafficked or ii) there is a high
tendency of reporting about the missing girls over missing boys in the NCCR.
Table 2.16 Number of missing children recorded in NCCR, Kathmandu Valley
Fiscal
year
No. of missing children No. children remain missing Untraced rate
Boys Girls Total Boys Girls Total Boys Girls Total
2009/10 1139 1047 2186 387 514 901 34.0 49.1 41.2
2010/11 1228 1203 2431 451 636 1087 36.7 52.9 44.7
2011/12 774 804 1578 270 428 698 34.9 53.2 44.2
2012/13 659 794 1453 202 428 630 30.7 53.9 43.4
2013/14 429 408 837 145 229 374 33.8 56.1 44.7
2014/15 342 444 786 NA NA 496 36.9
Note: NA refers to ‘not availability’.
Source: CCWB, 2014 and CCWB, 2015.
According to the record of the WCSD, Nepal Police, the five-yearly (2009/10 – 2013/14) average
number of missing persons recorded in WCSD is 5,246. Among the missing persons recorded almost
74 percent of the total missing recorded are females while the rest 26 percent males. The share of
children recorded missing constituted 38 percent of the total missing persons recorded (Table 2.17).
Table 2.17 Number of missing persons recorded in Nepal Police, WCSD, Kathmandu
FY No. of missing Remain missing
Male Female Children Adult Total Male Female Children Adult Total
2009/10 1198 2629 1384 2443 3827 1005 2300 1103 2202 3305
2010/11 1362 3067 1444 2985 4429 1113 2578 1060 2631 3691
2011/12 1475 6263 4339 3399 7738 1190 5803 4021 2972 6993
2012/13 1344 3724 1481 3587 5068 1168 3270 1221 3217 4438
2013/14 1506 3662 1501 3667 5168 1399 3354 1327 3426 4753
Fiveyearly
average 1377 3869 2030 3216 5246 1175 3461 1746 2890 4636
Row % 26.2 73.8 38.7 61.3 100.0 25.3 74.7 37.7 62.3 100.0
Five
yearly
untraced
rate* 85.3 89.5 86.0 89.8 88.4
Source: Women and Children Service Directorate, Nepal Police, (data received through a letter on request of NHRC), 2015.
There is very large numbers of missing persons who remain missing in each FY. The five-yearly
(2009/10-20013/14) average number of persons missing recorded remain missing is 4,636 –
resulting a very high untraced rate. The five-yearly (2009/10-2013/14) average untraced rate comes
out to be 88 percent. This means that of the total missing persons recorded in Nepal Police, 88
percent remain missing.
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