Research Catalog

Title

Rape for profit : trafficking of Nepali girls and women to India's brothels.

Author

Guthrie, Jeannine.

Publication

New York : Human Rights Watch, c1995.

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Additional Authors

• Human Rights Watch (Organization)
• Human Rights Watch/Asia.

Description

90 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

At least hundreds of thousands, and probably more than a million women and children are employed in Indian brothels. Many are victims of the increasingly widespread practice of trafficking in persons across international borders. In India, a large percentage of the victims are women and girls from Nepal. This report focuses on the trafficking of girls and women from Nepal to brothels in Bombay, where nongovernmental organizations say they comprise up to half of the city's estimated 100,000 brothel workers. Twenty percent of Bombay's brothel population is thought to be girls under the age of eighteen, and half of that population may be infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Trafficking victims in India are subjected to conditions tantamount to slavery and to serious physical abuse. Held in debt bondage for years at a time, they are raped and subjected to other forms of torture, to severe beatings, exposure to AIDS, and arbitrary imprisonment.

Alternative Title

Trafficking of Nepali girls and women to India's brothels.

Subject

• Prostitution > India
• Child prostitution > India
• Girls > Crimes against > Nepal
• Women > Crimes against > Nepal
• India > Social conditions
• Nepal > Social conditions

Genre/Form

• comment.
• reference.
• commentaire.
• référence bibliographique.
• comentario.
• referencia.

Note

• Written by Jeannine Guthrie.
• "Human Rights Watch/Asia."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

156432155X (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^95078059^

OCLC

• 32865692
• SCSB-11256215

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library