“Punishment should not be given
to those who sell their body or labour because most of the times they were
forced to join the prostitution or leave their home country so as to provide
cheap labour service,” he told The Rising Nepal.
Sunesson came to Nepal on a three-day
visit to advance and strengthen the gender perspective in international efforts to
combat the human trafficking by encouraging the countries to adopt legislation
that criminalises the demand for sexual services similar to that of Swedish
legislation
He said that the countries that
were receiving labourers and sex workers had greater role in combating
trafficking by discouraging the traffickers to supply children and women.
“We see more trafficking taking
place in Europe and developed nations from the developing world, and it is thriving
all over the world. One of the major steps in curbing this crime is to stop the
demand for women and girls in the sex industry,” he said.
“Countries must stop this by
denying cheap labour and sex workers,” he said.
According to him, Germany alone had 400,000 legal prostitutes,
most of them were from low-income countries like Bulgaria ,
Rumania and Lithuania .
He said that Sweden had laws
effective for the last 17 years that put shame on the buyer of the trafficked
women or girls not on the victims, and urged Nepal to adopt the similar
measure.
“I am here to learn about the
challenges that Nepal
has been facing in curbing human trafficking. This trip was also to show
support to the anti-trafficking efforts of the government of Nepal ,” Sunesson said.
According to the ambassador, the
government was doing a beautiful job along with many other stakeholders who
come together to work against human trafficking.
“But, Nepal has a challenge in
this regard. There is a strong pull effect from India and other countries in the
Golf. Open border with the southern neighbour has made the human trafficking, especially
girls, easy.
(Published in The Rising Nepal Daily)
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