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- According to UNIFEM, the most widely quoted source on the magnitude of the trafficking problem in Nepal, it is estimated that 5,000 to 7,000 girls are trafficked from Nepal to India and other neighbouring countries every year, primarily for prostitution, and 200,000 Nepali girls and women are currently working in the sex industry in India
- Thirty nine per cent of all rape victims are young women and under the age of 19 and another 39 per cent are between 20 and 29 years; all are at high risk of sexually transmitted infections, particularly HIV/AIDS, and other sexual and reproductive disorders
- In 2006, 936 instances of domestic violence were reported, according to the Central Women’s Cell of Nepal Police
- Despite a decade long struggle to pass a law on domestic violence, such a law has not come to be
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