Traffickers arrested, Kamalaris rehabilitated
Kantipur Report
At least 144 Kamalaris, indentured girl child labourers, have been rehabilitated and over two dozen traffickers arrested in Dang after the district was declared Kamalari-free on Jan. 14.
Police have intensified their activities at various places in the district in coordination with District Child Welfare Board and other organisations in the recent days. "Three to four cases relating to Kamalari are being registered in our office every day," said District Police Office.
Bhalubang police nabbed one Kaushalraj Sharma while he was taking Gita Chaudhary of Sonpur-7 to the capital as a Kamalari. She claimed that she has been working at Dr. Shashank Koirala's house in the capital since last seven years. Dr. Koirala, who is the nephew of former Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala, is a Constituent Assembly member.
(Are you serious? This guy is one of 601 people in the country who will write the new constitution and have the responsibility of integrating women's rights into the highest legal document in the land, and he kept this girl as a "slave". Do you think women's rights and issues are a concern for this man? No. So if him and his friends don't stand up and advocate women's concerns in the constitution...who will? This is yet another reflection of the elites in this country keeping marginalized groups and women subservient.)
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