TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS

7.3 Recommendations of this Report
The recommendations are drawn based on the major findings of this Report and implementation
status of the previous recommendations made by the NHRC-OSRT through TIP reports as discussed
in Section 7.2. Recommendations are drawn in three major components of combating TIP e.g.
prevention, protection and proseuction. Note that recommendations regarding capacity building and
networking and coordination are included in these major componets. Also, a separate set of
recommendations is drawn for maintaing information/data on TIP.
Prevention
• Formulate anti-trafficking policy in the changing context of TIP and revise and review of the
NPA in the changing context of disaster such as earthquake.
• Make functional Labor Bank as a mechanism to collect the remittances for the investment in
productive sector
• Maintain effective surveillance in major border points between Nepal and India and
between Nepal and Tibet, China including Kathmandu International Airport and other minor
border points. NGOs should be encouraged to establish surveillance centre in the needy
border points reduce the overlapping of surveillance system.
• Ensure that the contents of TIP, safe-migration and human rights included in Social Studies
of grades 8 to 10 are well disseminated and shared among the teachers and students
• Continue to sensitize media persons on TIP issues and reorient them towards victim centric
and fact-based news/views for ensuring the privacy and confidentiality of the victims.
• Ratify the UN Trafficking Protocol 2000 and UN Convention on Migrant Workers and Their
Families 1990 to protect and promote the rights of migrant workers
• Monitor the implementation status of Terms of Conditions of Inter Country Adoption and
effectively monitor the Child Care Homes to ensure that the standards provisions are met
• Raise awareness on community people especially in the most trafficking prone and high
magnitude of foreign labor migration districts and areas about safe migration and trafficking
issues.
• Strengthen and expand the Information Booths on Safe Migration to prevent TIP at District
Administration Offices and at the community levels.
• Continue and expand the broadcast of message of anti-trafficking and safe migration from
electronic and print media, especially in local and regional languages
Protection
• Implement effectively the NPA and National Minimum Standard for Victim's Care and
Protection.
• Encourage the District Committees to develop and implement the period Action Plans in
their own context
• Initiate the bi-lateral agreements with major destination countries to build the rapid
response mechanism and avoid the delay in rescue and repatriation of the victims of
trafficking based on the gravity of the problem.
• Increase the rescue fund to be allocated to Embassies, NGOs and Rehab Fund
• Strengthen WCSCs as special authority Police Unit for addressing TIP issues and also
strengthen the capacity of CIB for effective collaboration and coordination among bilateral,
multilateral and international agencies in order to effectively curtail the organized forms of
internal and cross border trafficking.
• Strengthen the Department of Counselor Service of MoFA as a Special Unit (physical
facilities, skilled human resources and budget) to effectively and timely rescue and
repatriate the victims of cross border trafficking specially relating to the foreign labor
migration.
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