Saving girls from traffickers on the India-Nepal border

Police and NGOs in India and Nepal work together to tackle human trafficking of women and girls across the open border between the two countries. DW spoke to one young girl who managed to escape her kidnappers and return home to Nepal.

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The UN‘s International Organization for Migration (IOM) says between 100,000 to 300,000 Nepalis move to India each year.

There is no official count of how many people migrate annually, as India and Nepal have shared an open border since 1950.

The UN’s crime agency, the UNODC, estimates that in South Asia alone, human trafficking generates $52 billion in annual profits.

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