TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS

• Increase allocation of budget to the Diplomatic Missions abroad to deal with the problem of
migrant workers and to verify demand of foreign labor and also expand the such provisions
in the major destination countries of Nepali foreign labor migrants
• Strengthen the Safe Houses already established in countries of destination and expand in
other major destination countries, especially in major destination countries of women
migrant workers.
• Facilitate to implement the NHRC Nepal and NHRC State of Qatar 10 points MoU entered in
2015 to protect and promote the rights of Nepalese migrant workers in state of Qatar and
facilitate to replicate such a MoU in other major destination countries
• Increase support to rehabilitation centers run by NGOs and expand the rehab centers
especially in highly trafficking prone districts
• Strengthen the National/District Committees on Controlling Human Trafficking by ensuring
the adequate budget, human resources and motivational issues
• Effectively monitor whether the best interest of trafficked survivors has been served in the
process of re-union with their community and the family
• Ensure access to education, vocational training and income generating activities to the
reintegrated trafficked survivors.
• Encouraged skilled foreign labor migration and make mandatory provision of at least Three
(3) Month vocational training to the potential migrants. It is required to support for
providing vocational training to those who could not afford.
Prosecution
• Formulate the Act based on the Supreme Court Directive for protection of female workers in
entertainment industry
• Amend the HTTCA 2007 and FEA 2007 to deal with TIP in relation to foreign employment
and effectively implement the HTTCA 2007 and Regulation 2008 and FEA 2007. Make
required amendment in Immigration Act and Passport Act in line with human right
protection of the victim for responding and dealing with trafficking and smuggling of person
and undocumented migrants.
• Strengthen WCSD at the national level and WCSCs at the district and local levels and make
the more gender and human rights friendly
• Make functional the high level coordination committee of MoHA, MoLE, Nepal Police and
Attorney General formed in 2012 to effectively provide the justice to the victims
• Strengthen the NJA to effectively conduct training/workshop to the judicial officials, judges,
prosecutors and legal practitioners and expand the activities of NJA even outside of the
Kathmandu valley.
Information Needs
• Maintain data on returnees, number of persons deported, number of persons on detention
and their nature of problems, loss of life
• Build up bilateral relations with Government of India to maintain data on the Nepalese
workers heading for a third country via India
• Conduct studies on these areas: study the situation of migrant workers through the
household survey, situation of woman migrant workers in Gulf countries, study the TIP for
marriage, for illegal organ extraction
• Conduct rapid assessment to understand the magnitude of TIP after the Earthquake of Mid-
2015.
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