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Table 5.16 Distribution of the number of news and articles covered in print media about human trafficking, April 2014-April 2015, Nepal Number Percent Types of news reviewed Migration 619 61.5 Human trafficking 299 29.7 Kamaiya/Kamalari 76 7.5 Others (international issues) 13 1.3 Total 1007 100.0 News on human trafficking Kantipur 96 32.1 Nagarik 48 16.1 Gorkhapatra 47 15.7 Nepal Samacharpatra 62 20.7 Rajadhani 46 15.4 Coverage of news Only one news paper 114 38.1 Two newspapers 134 44.8 More than two newspapers 45 15.1 In all in selected newspapers 6 2.0 Priority news First page 57 19.1 Editoral news 30 10.0 Other pages 212 70.9 Types of news Hard news (event-based) 185 61.9 Soft news 90 30.1 Editioral 12 4.0 Opinion articles 12 4.0 Confidentiality Name disclosed 105 35.1 Pseudo name given 12 4.0 Supportive identify disclosed 93 31.1 Photo published 33 11.0 Identity totally undisclosed 56 18.7 N 299 100.0 Source: AATW<strong>IN</strong>, 2015, Human Trafficking and Transportation in Nepal: An Analysis of News and Articles (Kathmandu: AATW<strong>IN</strong>). 5.8 Emerging Challenges • Implement the NPA against Trafficking in Persons 2011-2021 effectively by increasing the budget and human resources. • Strengthen the Secretariate of National Committee and mobilize the District Committees effectively and expand the Village and Municpality Committees across the countries, especially in the high prevalence of migration areas. • Increase the coordination between the MoWCSW, the National Committee, NHRC, the MoLE, the MoFA, the OAG, and the Gender-Based Violence Unit within the Prime Minister’s Office in order to effectively tackle the trafficking problems in the country. • Integrate TIP prevention activities with the poverty alleviation, education and empowerment programs by developing coordination mechanism among and between line Ministries. • Reduce the overlap in program interventions and encourage the NGOs reaching out to the unreached population. • Increase the media coverage on trafficking issues ensuring the confidentiality and privacy of the victims/survivors. 95
Chapter 6 Legal Framework, Enforcement and Judicial Responses This Chapter reviews the law enforcement status in relation to combating trafficking in persons. It further goes on assessing the implementation status of the HTTA 2007 and judicial responses in relation to conviction and pending rates of trafficking cases. 6.1 Legal Framework As legal framework for combating TIP, Nepal is a state party of major human rights instruments such as the following: • Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others, 1949 (ratified December 27, 1995) • Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, 1979 (Ratified April 22, 1991) • Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989 (Ratified September 14, 1990) • Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography, 2000 (Ratified October 31, 2005) • SAARC Convention on Preventing and Combating Trafficking in Women and Children for Prostitution, 2002 (Signed October 31, 2005) • UN Convention on Transnational Organized Crime 2000 (Ratified in June 24, 2011) However, Nepal has yet to be the state party in the following instruments for controlling for trafficking in persons and illegal migration: • UN Convention on Transnational Organized Crime, 2000 – Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, 2000 (UN Protocol on Trafficking) • UN Convention on Migrant Workers and Their Families, 1990 • ILO Convention 189 on Domestic Workers (2011). As a domestic legal framework, Nepal has adopted Human Trafficking and Transportation (Control) Act 2007 and Regulation 2008. Recently, some provisions of the Act have been amended. However, in this Report, the implementation status of Act has been evaluated based on the provisions before its amendment (Section 6.3). 6.2 Law Enforcement Status As shown in Figure 5.1 in Chapter 5 that the key law enforcement agency is Nepal Police. Nepal Police has specific Divisions: Women and Children Service Directorate (WCSD) and Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) primarily responsible for controlling trafficking crime in the country. Nepal Police established one in central level and 4 districts (Kathmandu, Lalitapur, Kaski and Morang) level Women and Children Service Centers (WCSC) as a pilot project in 1996. By FY 2014/15, there were 75 districts and 7 metropolitan circles, Kathmandu of WCSCs in the country. The law enforcement status by the WCSD/WCSCs is discussed in Chapter 2 that it registered the trafficking cases in different districts, regional and central Police offices of Nepal and carried out the investigation accordingly. Here, key activities of CIB during the FYs 2013/14 and 2014/15 in controlling for organized trafficking crime are discussed below: • On April 1, 2015, the team of CIB raided Chheru International Marriage Bureau in Kathmandu-4, Chuna Devi and arrested three persons including one Korean citizen on the suspension of their involvement in human trafficking in the name of paper marriage of 96
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Foreword The pervasive problem of h
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