The government of Nepal is taking the blame for the rise of human trafficking in the country, especially among young women. Local humanitarians are pointing the finger to the failed implementation of anti-trafficking laws. This results to numerous Nepalese women being smuggled to India to work in brothels.

The Human Trafficking and Transportation Act was developed in 2008 and states that any traffickers arrested will be charged with more than $2,000 in fine and will be sentenced to prison for more than 20 years. Unfortunately, the law has done little to prevent the human trafficking crime from occurring in different parts of the country.

According to an NGO that specializes in helping trafficking victims, the problem stems from the fact that the government is not able to strongly implement the anti-trafficking laws and that among the thousands of criminals who commit trafficking, only a few hundred are punished.

The NGO also conducted research and discovered that a lot of the human traffickers of Nepal are from criminal gangs who are connected to brothel owners in India and that traffickers usually attract their victims by promising possibilities of job or good marriages. Most of the girls and women who are trafficked also resided in towns that are near the perpetrators.

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