SHAME ON MOFA
The Kathmandu Post
13 August 2017
SHAME ON MOFA
It was shocking to hear how the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) failed to act on curbing and controlling
human trafficking to Gulf countries in accordance with a report released by a
team of parliamentarians headed by Prabhu Sah, the then Chairman of the
sub-committee of International Relation and Labour Committee of Parliament. The
team found out that the officials of the other state agencies and even the immigration
department colluded with the human traffickers(“MoFA failed to act, says House panel report” August 9, Page 1).
More than 60 % of domestic
workers who reached the Gulf were found to have travelled through Tribhuvan
International Airport (TIA). This indicates that there is a well established network
between the concerned officials and human traffickers. There seems to be
serious flaws in the immigration system which needs to be immediately corrected
in order to curb human trafficking However, the question here is; which
government organization can take this initiative?
Over 30,000 domestic women workers
from Nepal have reached Saudi Arabia illegally to work as domestic help and the
number of women reaching other countries through illegal channels operated in
collusion with immigration officials and smugglers is equally high. The
condition of most of these women working as domestic help was found to be
extremely awful. The time has come for the concerned government organization to
act swiftly and lawfully punish the culprits to discourage human trafficking.
Rai Biren Bangdel
Maharajgunj
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