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US grant for anti-trafficking
initiatives
Post Report
KATHMANDU, April 15:The government of United
States has provided a grant of US$ 200,000 to support the on-going anti-trafficking
initiatives in Nepal, states a press release issued here today by the American Embassy in
the capital today.
The fund is provided to the Asia Foundation and
the local Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) to conduct awareness programmes for
prevention, assist the survivors of trafficking and review existing legalization on
trafficking and immigration to ensure that women’s rights to safe migration are
protected.
According to the release, work will be carried
out in five districts identified by the Ministry of Women, Children and Social Welfare
(MWCSW) as sources or transit points on trafficking victims. The programme aims to
strengthen the district, municipal and village-level trafficking task forces in these
districts.
The US government has been supporting
anti-trafficking activities initiating in Nepal since 1999, both through the country
office of USAID and through funding of multi-lateral organisations including ILO, UNIFEM
and UNICEF.
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