The episode of Samakon is on “Trafficking in girls and women in the name of foreign employment”. The public hearing was conducted in Chautara, Sindupalchowk. The panelist(S) are: Mr. Sher Bahadur Tamang, Member of Parliament; Mr. Kiran Bajracharya, Senior Police and Ms. Chari Maya Tamang, rights activist.

Trafficking victims often are taken to locations within Nepal, often from rural areas to the urban centers. Mainly young girls and women are trafficked for sxual exploitation in places such as cabin/dance restaurants, massage parlors, and other places within tourism sector. However, these spaces also host many women who entered sx work voluntarily, and those who might have entered voluntarily but were later not allowed to leave and end up in slave-like conditions. Within Nepal, labor trafficking is also common: victims often end up in carpet and garment factories, embroidering sweatshops, brick-kilns, and others.