India - Nepal Corridor
The Indo-Nepal Treaty of Peace and Friendship between the Government of India and the Government of Nepal, was signed in Kathmandu, on 31st July 1950. This Indo-Nepal dialogue aims to take forward the values of the treaty, and bring about renewed attention to the issue of cooperation to combat child trafficking across the borders between India and Nepal.
As per the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) report titled “Human Trafficking: A Vision Document”, in South Asia, Nepal remains the country with highest number of children and women being trafficked, followed by India. Cross border trafficking is a challenge for the governments and law enforcement agencies. In Nepal, women and children are trafficked internally, as well as to India and neighbouring countries for commercial sexual exploitation or forced marriage.
In 2007, the South Asian March Against Child Trafficking worked towards spreading awareness against trafficking of children from Bangladesh and Nepal to India, as well as intra-border (within India) trafficking. Bachpan Bachao Andolan (Save The Childhood Movement) in association with its key partners, Global March Against Child Labour, BSAF (a conglomeration of 250 Bangladeshi NGOs), BASE and CWIN from Nepal, and hundreds of civil society partners, organized a 5000km long march starting from Kolkata on 25 February 2007 and culminating in New Delhi on 22 March 2007. 150 core marchers participated, half of them being child victims of trafficking for forced labour along the IndoNepal and Indo-Bangladesh borders.
Some of the key observations of the South Asian March Against Child Trafficking included the presence of clear source, transit and destination points for trafficking in persons. the notable points were highlighted as Raxaul, Kishanganj, Siliguri, Malda in India; and Bhairwha, Banbasa in Nepal amongst others. Other points that were highlighted included the lack of law enforcement of trafficking.
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