{"id":31985,"date":"2018-10-29T12:08:06","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T06:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=31985"},"modified":"2018-10-29T12:08:06","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T06:38:06","slug":"open-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/open-trafficking\/","title":{"rendered":"Open trafficking\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/open-trafficking\/article22451522.ece\"><strong>Open trafficking<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Employment opportunities should be created in Nepal to prevent cross-border trafficking between Nepal and India<\/p>\n<p><strong>What<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Following the 2015 Nepal earthquake, the Ministry of Home Affairs said that human trafficking from Nepal to India witnessed \u201ca three-fold jump\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The SashastraSeemaBal (SSB) reported that most of the victims were minors, with girls and boys in equal numbers, and many were from the earthquake-affected districts of Nepal<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Women gone to other countries<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A large number of women from this district left the country after the earthquake to find employment abroad, either through Rasuwagadhi or some other transit point along the India-Nepal border, said Asha from an NGO.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Open Border<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Indo-Nepal Treaty of Peace and Friendship, 1950 provides for an open border between Nepal and India<\/p>\n<p><strong>Easy to cross<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At the Gauriphanta border in LakhimpurKheri district and Sanuali border in Maharajganj district of U.P. bordering Nepal, was easy to cross over to Nepal<\/p>\n<p><strong>People not stopped from entering India<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An official from SSB at Gauriphanta, which guards the Indian side of the border, said that those entering India are not stopped, but \u201cthose with luggage or any suspicion are stopped and questioned.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Closing the borders not a solution<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Closing the border may prevent cross-border trafficking, but it could also engender or accentuate economic vulnerabilities for those who have jobs or own businesses along the border<\/p>\n<p><strong>The way forward<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is imperative to create economic opportunities, particularly for the youth, within the country. Further, the Nepal-India border needs to be equipped with enhanced intelligence networks and effective monitoring mechanisms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open trafficking\u00a0 Context Employment opportunities should be created in Nepal to prevent cross-border trafficking between Nepal and India What Following the 2015 Nepal earthquake, the Ministry of Home Affairs said that human trafficking from Nepal to India witnessed \u201ca three-fold jump\u201d The SashastraSeemaBal (SSB) reported that most of the victims were minors, with girls and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/open-trafficking\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Open trafficking\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704783446},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}