What We Fight
“Of all the children suffering in the brothels of India, perhaps none suffer more frequently than the daughters of Nepal. Up to thirty thousand of the one hundred thousand prostitutes in Mumbai are Nepalese. In each brothel I visited, one or two floors were dedicated strictly to Nepalese women and children”. - Siddharth Karra
Sex Trafficking-A form of modern-day slavery
Each year over 10,000 girls are taken from Nepal to be sold into the sex trade industry. Some research indicates as many as 20,000 are taken.
Although the majority of girls we intercept are in their early twenties, some have been young as six years of age.
Deception
The most common method of luring victims from Nepal include: a promise of a good job in India or another country, education, false marriage, medical treatments, social visits, being sold into the sex trade by parents, trusted relatives, husbands, boyfriends or abduction.
Conditions & Consequences
Victims face and experience physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual damage. They are often “broken in" by rape, gang rape, starvation, confinement, beatings, physical abuse, threats of violence to the victims’ families, forced drug use and the threat of shaming their victims by revealing their activities to their family and their families’ friends. Most of this abuse occurs once they have been sold into a brothel.
Debt-Bondage
Victims are eventually subjected to debt-bondage, an illegal practice in which they are told that they owe money (often relating to the victims’ living expenses and transport into the country) and that they must pledge their personal services to repay the debt.
