Shelter management has a direct and positive impact on the successful reintegration of survivors. Shelters play a crucial and significant role in building the confidence of survivors and empowering them economically to reintegrate into their family and society.
Nepal is considered a source, transit, and destination country for human trafficking. Trafficking in Nepal is diverse and is cross-border, international, and internal. According to the report published by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), about 35,000 people were victims of human trafficking in the year 2018. They were trafficked for various purposes: sexual exploitation, […]
Data available on the incidence of trafficking in persons (TIP) in Nepal is scant and scattered. This leaves unanswered questions about the actual number of people trafficked from Nepal every year and the socio-economic characteristics of TIP survivors. According to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC)’s latest annual report on TIP in Nepal, a total […]
This policy brief explores: 1) prevalence of trafficking in persons (TIP) indicators among Nepali workers while participating in international labor migration, and 2) factors that place migrant workers at the risk of trafficking. These are important factors given that hundreds of thousands of Nepali workers participate in foreign employment every year and existing studies/media reports […]
Survivors of human trafficking in Nepal face extreme challenges to access justice. Many are still waiting to begin the process and those who are mid-process continue to encounter multiple legal and institutional barriers.
Nepal is one of the most highly affected countries regarding human trafficking (HT); however, the country does not have a centralized and updated database on HT. The estimated HT data was conducted in 2022 by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) with around 35,000 persons affected, which included a high number of women (15,000) and […]
Under the USAID Thailand CTIP project, World Vision and local partners hosted Roundtable Forums in Chiang Rai and Surat Thani for migrants, local government, CSOs, employers, community leaders, and youth to identify challenges in the migrant labor protection system and develop recommendations. These activities served as an attempt to shift the approaches of policymakers and […]
This study on Service Provision for Gender and Sexual Minorities in Shelters for Human Trafficking Survivors in Thailand aims to: understand the existing policies and procedures for providing services to this group in specialized TIP shelters in Thailand; and provide recommendations on how to meet their needs better.
This report was originally conceived to be an exploratory analysis of case data on trafficking and exploitation in Southeast Asia that begins online, trying to understand if recruitment is occurring via social media, messaging apps and websites and, if so, in which countries and to what extent. We attempted to examine and analyze information on […]
The U.S. Mid-South region has seen only nominal growth in organic production due in part to the lack of geographically specific production information. The most significant barriers include complex organic crop management and pest control, and the organic certification process.