TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS

Table 5.12 Overview of child helpline, FY 2013-14 and FY 2014-15, Nepal
Description FY 2013-14
Number of districts with child helpline 12
Number of organizations running the child helpline 6
Number of children benefited:
Psychosocial counseling 1569
Emergency rescue 1469
Health treatment 562
Family reunion 828
Legal aid 229
Prevent from trafficking 140
Prevent from child marriage 33
Sex of the children benefited
Girls (% of total) 48.2
Boys (% of total) 51.8
Total benefited 4830
Note: Figures for FY 2014-15 was not available in the CCWB Annual Report 2015.
Source: CCWB 2014.
Child Care Homes – Drawing data from the CCWB Annual Reports, it is found that there were 594
Child Care Homes in 46 districts in FY 2013/14 with 16,617 children residing in these Homes. In the
FY 2014/15, there were 577 Child Care Homes in 44 districts of the country with 16,400 children
residing in these Homes (Table 5.13).
Table 5.13 Overview of child care homes, FY 2013-14 and FY 2014-15, Nepal
Description FY 2013-14 FY 2014-15
No. of districts with Child Care Homes 46 44
Number of child care homes 594 577
Children residing in the Homes
Boys 8423 7989
Girls 8194 8411
Total 16617 16400
Source: CCWB, 2014 and CCWB, 2015.
The Standard of Operating Procedure of Child Care Home 2069 (2012) has defined the children in
need of special care and protection as follow:
• Children without both parents and nobody is taking care of the children
• Abandoned children or run away or no identification of the parents
• Children in abusive, exploitative and discrimination condition by the parents or the
caretakers
• Children from the disabled parents family
• Children with no permanent house
5.5 NHRC Responses
• NHRC organized two regional level workshops about the implementation status of Human
Trafficking and Transportation (Control) Act of 2007 in Taulihawa, Kapilbastu in Decemer 17,
2014 and in Birtamod, Jhapa in December 23, 2015. The workshop was led by the Hon’ble
Commissioner of NHRC – Mrs. Mohana Anshari and the officers of NHRC of central and
regional offices. Altogether, there were 88 participants in the two workshops.
• Conducted monitoring of border points in Kakarbhitta by the NHRC team and a
Parliamentarian and found that there were no Surveillance Centers in other border points in
Jhapa district except in Kakarbhitta and this issue was not even discussed in the District
Committee for Controlling Human Trafficking.
• Organized a national level interaction programs with the stakeholders in April 11, 2015 in
NHRC Central Office among GOs and NGOs personnel to combat TIP.
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