Human trafficking is one of the challenges in Nepal. It has been estimated that one-third of victims of human trafficking is either born, reach, or sent through Asia. Mostly young poor girls who have no access to education tend to believe in the trafficker’s words, because they think that they find the paradise to take them away from current miserable life of poverty.
How can we stop the chain of trafficking? It only can be achieved by working collectively among communities and establish a monitoring mechanism that the traffickers have no space commit crime.
Thinking about the victims still locked up and victims being rescued but struggling with the nightmares is heartbreaking. However, I cannot help myself thinking about the background of the traffickers. The fact that they had ruined the lives of small children cannot be forgiven, but does the problem of poverty lies in the traffickers as well? I might be biased, but I could not believe that all the traffickers involved in this huge industry abduct people in order to get some additional money. I assume that some of them who are in the bottom of the hierarchy of human trafficking industry have involuntarily be an accomplice in the crime. Where will be the safe place for them? It is very important for Nepal to strengthen the punishment for the perpetrator; however, the problem is undoubtedly rooted into poverty. Unless the government tackles with the problems of poverty in individual level, this remains as a game of cat and mouse.