INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
KATHMANDU, SEPTEMBER 17One thousand six hundred and seventy-nine persons who had
fallen prey to human trafficking have been rescued from various countries, including Nepal, in the last five years.
Nepali children rescued from India
EDITORIAL: Human trafficking
Nepal Police, Human Trafficking Investigation Bureau said
this many victims of human trafficking were rescued from fiscal year 2019/20 to 2023/24.Bureau Chief, Senior Superintendent of Police Jeevan
Kumar Shrestha said among those rescued, 1,134 were rescued by the police offices in various districts
Five hundred and forty-four persons were rescued at the initiatives of the Bureau alone.
One thousand and seventy-eight
among those rescued are women and 605 are men
Shrestha said 214 people who were the victims of human trafficking were rescued in fiscal year 2022/23 while 336 were rescued in fiscal year
2023/24.As he said the incidences of trafficking in persons are increasing in the name of foreign employment.
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