Combating
Human Trafficking and Promoting Safe Migration
Nepal
April 2002
 U.S.
State Department estimates show that in 2002 as many as 4
million women and children were trafficked across global
borders. In Nepal, BEPS conducted an assessment on the worst
forms of child labor and determined that children affected
by the Maoist armed conflict, which began in 1996, are particularly
vulnerable to abusive child labor practices. While a cease
fire called during the team’s trip provided some hope
of peaceful resolution, children and families remain in urgent
need of educational services.
BEPS initiatives in Nepal aim
to use life skills and literacy training, mentoring, and
formal and nonformal education preventatively
to reach children, families and communities at large, on
child labor and trafficking issues.
The BEPS team collaborates
with World Education/Nepal and two Nepali NGOs, which are
currently designing a scope of
work to address children who are internally displaced or
out of school as a result of the conflict. BEPS will work
with the groups to provide educational support to children
affected by the conflict, vocational training to older youth,
and nonformal education, which will aim to better protect
children from domestic or cross-border trafficking and other
forms of abusive child labor. Emphasis will be placed on
linking youth to employment opportunities while raising awareness
on safe migration practices and key life skills
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