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After Maya had worked there for
about six months, a woman from
her village who lived in Mumbai
offered to take her to a big city.
Maya felt her dream came true.
Maya and her friend Parbati were
instead cheated and sold into a
brothel in Sonagachhi, Kolkata.
Maya met many Nepalese women
there, most of them had similar
stories. She spent 28 months in
a dark room receiving an average
4-5 customers daily. For her
services, she used to get meals for girl trafficking
two times. She became infected
with a Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) and was admitted to hospital for three
months. A doctor rescued her after she was identified with HIV positive.
She went back to her village but
nobody accepted her. Even her
family didn’t accept her. Again
she came back to Kathmandu SC Orders to Protect
and took shelter in Maiti-Nepal
where many HIV/AID victims Sexually Harassed
were living happily. Maya also got Women
training to make useful things out
of waste and sold it in the market The supreme court has recently issued
by one NGO. Today Maya is living an order in the name of government to
happily in Maiti Nepal. formulate a special law for protecting
the sexual harassed women in Nepal.
Cause of Prostitution or The sexual violence against women and
Girl Trafficking children has been rapidly increasing but
there is difficulty in rehabilitating them
Poverty back in the society with no guardingship.
Thus it has asked the government to form a
Illiteracy new law that would protect the victimized
Ignorance women and penalize the culprit strongly. It
has clarified that since Nepal has already
Unemployment
signed the UN International Declaration
Population growth against women violence there would be no
justice to the victims with the existing laws.
Family Disharmony
It has also appealed the National Women
Gender Discrimination Commission to take necessary steps to
High Ambitions assist the government for the same.
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