The French humanitarian association Planète Enfants, active in Nepal since 1998 in defending the rights of women and children, opened on ist October’s first center for prevention against trafficking in women in the border with India, in Nepalgunj, on the road to New Delhi.
An estimated 15,000 Nepalese women, aged 13 to 20 years, having left [...]
Among the countries of South Asia, Nepal is considered the main source country of trafficking in human beings, particularly to India for the purpose of sexual exploitation. According to the different actors in the fight against trafficking, 5 to 7 000 Nepalese girls and women are trafficked annually to India. A study by the International [...]
The promotion and protection of human rights has been a major preoccupation for the United Nations since 1945, when the Organization’s founding nations resolved that the horrors of The Second World War should never be allowed to recur. Respect for human rights and human dignity “is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the [...]
The diplomacy of human rights carried out by the European Union has led to introduce a form of conditionality on human rights in its partnership agreements.The “human rights clauses” justify measures up to the suspension of the agreement.If this mechanism is theoretically intended to ensure respect for human rights, it may do if applied in [...]