Students participate to form a human-chain to mark the ninth National Day against Human Trafficking organised at Nepalgunj-Rupaidiha border on Monday (September 5, 2016).
Sep 5, 2016- The ninth National Day against Human Trafficking has been marked amid various programmes in the Capital on Monday.
A total of 15 social organizations in coordination of the Ministry of Women, Children and Social Welfare observed the Day organizing a week-long public awareness programmes.
A rally started from Bhrikutimandap and marched through Jamal and ended with a programme held at Academy Hall at Kamaladi.
Addressing the event, Chief Justice Sushila Karki pointed out the need to amend the existing Acts against human trafficking and formulate more stern laws to curb it.
Terming human trafficking a heinous crime, she spoke of the need to organise social awareness campaigns to minimise the crime.
Similarly, Women, Children, Senior Citizen and Social Welfare Committee under the Legislature-Parliament President Ranju Kumari Jha called for collaborations from one and all to combat human trafficking.
She argued that the awareness campaigns should not be city-centric but should be taken to the nook and corners of the country.
At the programme, journalists writing against trafficking of women and rights activists working against women trafficking were awarded. The Kathmandu Post daily's Pratichya Dulal, Gorkhapatra daily's Sita Sharma and Radio Nepal's Chandra Baniya were awarded.
Around 10,000 persons were reported trafficked in 2015, according to the report of the National Human Rights Commission. The trafficking in persons was reported on the rise by 15 per cent in the country following the Gorkha Earthquake. RSS
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