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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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