Speech On Human Trafficking

Human trafficking is a modern-day form of slavery involving the illegal trade of people for exploitation or commercial gain. It involves controlling a person through force, fraud, or coercion to exploit the victim for forced labor, sexual exploitation, or both and can occur within a country or trans-nationally. Every year, millions of men, women, and children are trafficked in countries around the world, including Nepal. According to the United Nations Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children (Palermo Protocol), individuals may be trafficking victims regardless of whether they once consented, participated in a crime as a direct result of being trafficked, were transported into the exploitative situation, or were simply born into a state of servitude. Despite a term that seems to suggest movement, the phenomenon of trafficking in persons includes the many forms of enslavement, not the activities involved in international transportation.

Human trafficking is one of the serious problems of not only Nepal but the world as a whole. In fact, it is the third largest international criminal activity. It consists of recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons by means of threat or use of force, coercion, abduction, fraud, deception, abuse of power or vulnerability, or by giving payments or benefits to a person in control of the victim. Usually girls from rural areas, illiterate people, orphan children and