Local women patrol the Nepal-Indian border to apprehend people taking girls out of the country
Just before dawn in the bustling city of Birgunj, an elegant middle-aged woman clocks on to start her border patrol shift.
Maya Gurung has policed these streets for the past nine years. But she is not a law enforcement officer. She is one of a team of people who scour the Nepali-Indian borderlands for signs of one of the most insidious – and growing – crimes in this part of the world: the trafficking for sex of young women.
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Written by Gavin Kelleher in Birgunj
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/03/nosy-persistent-brave-the-women-who-catch-sex-traffickers-red-handed under the title “Nosy, persistent, brave: the women who catch sex-traffickers red-handed”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
