After being sold in the brothels of India for as little as $300, many Nepali girls who have been rescued from sex trafficking are now finding ways to empower themselves in their home country.
Nepal: Escaped from the Sex Trade, Unable to Go Home
Published June 28, 2011
Sold by her uncle into prostitution at age 15, Laxmi Bishwokarma escaped the brothels, but cannot go home. She rebuilds her life with the help of a NGO.
Habiba Nosheen delivers keynote lecture at Womanity, a summit on global women's issues at Arizona State University.
Short films and discussion on the global phenomenon of child brides, honor killings in Pakistan, adoptions and trafficking in Nepal, and reproductive health in Liberia.
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Habiba Nosheen is a Gemini-nominated Pakistani-Canadian multimedia journalist who now lives and works in New York. She is a videographer and a radio reporter who is fluent in English, Urdu, Hindi...
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Anup is an award-winning multimedia journalist who currently works for the Washington Post. His work has appeared in theAtlantic.com, The Globe and Mail, Forbes.com, The Kathmandu Post...
