Country: Nepal
Group: Magar
Date: 10/23/2020
Team: Arisha Khan (lead), Rebekah Kamer, Alicia Hernandez, Ann Thomas
Content Warning: forced labor, forced displacement, forced marriage, trafficking, sexual slavery, violence against women
Approximate Time Period: 1951-present
In Nepal itself, even though forced labor was abolished in 1951, the government still allows forced labor of the Magar population to occur (Hitchcock, 1996). Furthermore, several recruitment agencies in Nepal force men to work in foreign military positions and women are forced into marriages (Magars). In recent history, Magar women from Nepal have been sex-trafficked, being coerced or forced to move to different countries. A large population of female sex workers working in India have come from Nepal, a lot of them being from the Magar community. Non-governmental organizations have stated that girls and women coming from Nepal make up half of the 100,000 sex workers working in brothels in Bombay. Many of these young women have been lured by neighbors, relatives, or local recruiters who promised jobs or marriages. Women in India are too afraid to report these problems for fear of harsh repercussions by the brothels, and because some of the police officers are loyal customers to these brothels (Human Rights Watch, 1995).
There was some detailed information, but not many peer-reviewed sources. Data quality is rated as a 2.
Sources
- Human Rights Watch/Asia, & Human Rights Watch (Organization) (Eds.). (1995). Rape for profit: Trafficking of Nepali girls and women to India’s brothels. Human Rights Watch.
- Hitchcock, J. T. (1996). Magar. In Encyclopedia of World Cultures (South Asia, Vol. 3, pp. 156–162). Macmillan Reference USA.
- Magars. (n.d.). Retrieved October 23, 2020, from https://sites.google.com/a/pdx.edu/magar/