CNN top 10 leader Smt Koirala ready to work in Sikkim if government allows

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CNN top 10 leader Smt Koirala ready to work in Sikkim if government allows

Gangtok, 22 October: “Most of the peoples only talk and least bothered

about women and children being breeched but for me we have start

working”, said Smt Anuradha Koirala, CNN Top 10 Global Leader and the

founder and executive director of Maiti Nepal – founded in Kathmandu,

Nepal, in 1993 as a non-profit, child rights social organization to

find sustainable solutions to issues related to trafficking – while

initiating her discussions on ‘Fighting against Human Trafficking’.

The occasion was chaired by the chief justice of Sikkim Shri PD

Dinakaran, who also endorsed the Smt Koirala’s opinion. Judicial has a

vital role to play in social challenges, he said.

He says, “Women are not aware of their roles. Fight of women is not

against men but against the reason behind trafficking and it is time

to understand the case and fight against trafficking. It is definitely

as high time to act rather than to react against human trafficking”.

“Nobody from Sikkim invited us and if the government give us the

permission then we are ready to work” Smt Koirala informed thanking

Sikkim University (SU) for inviting her to address a global lecture on

such a serious issue.

Delivering the global lecture on human trafficking during the occasion

– designed by Sikkim University (SU) – here at Chintan Bhawan,

Gangtok, she defined the push factors of trafficking as low literacy,

low empowerment, gender discrimination, dowry, female infanticide,

domestic violence, lack of awareness, social customs & traditions,

poverty & acute employment, etc.

One of the main factor why the victims are dragged for trafficking,

she detailed was illiteracy and alack of knowledge, which was literally

supported by Professor, Mahindra P Lama, Vice Chancellor, SU. He said,

“ We feel that the reason behind the human trafficking is poverty but

i feel, it is not poverty but lack of education”. Human trafficking

has a very serious implication, covers every society, in fact no

countries remain totally segregated from it, he stated.

Smt Koirala has been a crusader to protect Nepali girls and women from

crimes like domestic violence, trafficking for flesh trade, child

prostitution, child labor and various forms of exploitation and

torture.

While familiarizing the annual data of human trafficking, she

presented 6 to 8 hundred thousand victims of trafficking every year

and ‘50,000 to 300,000 Nepalese girls are estimated to be sexually

exploited in brothels located in different parts of India, who have to

satisfy 5 to 25 clients per day’.

Discussing further the purposes and modes of human trafficking, she

said that every child has his/her right to education and had to be

made mandatory and ‘should be fined to their parents, if they fail.

Domestic trafficking, cross border trafficking, overseas trafficking

should be checked, she mentioned and wondered if India has  any legal

and affecting framework to combat trafficking, as most of the brothels

in India are running in public places, which are not allowed in legal

terms.

“India has lots of laws ( regarding the prevention of human

trafficking) but zero implementation”, exclaimed Dr Doma T Bhutia,

Director, Human Rights Law Network, Sikkim Unit supporting the bitter

fact of contemporary system.