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Nepal – Safety for Women and Strategies against Sex Trafficking

Question:

This thread has diversified under different subject headers into different forums, which makes it more difficult to follow for anyone doing a search in Deja.com. As you say, Colin….. In this forum it figures under: Nepal – safety and strategies against sex trafficking – also – Nepal – Safety for Women and Strategies against Sex Trafficking In soc.culture.nepal it figures under: HOW SAFE IS NEPAL ? HOW SAFE IS NEPAL ? plus Strategies against Sex Trafficking But most of the full subjects don’t show because they are long, so how about Nepal – Travel Safety & Anti-trafficking ideas. Anything referring to travel agents and tour operators in Nepal must be relevant in the appropriate rec.travel forums, but I suggest we keep the thread in soc.culture.nepal, with brief pointers in rec.travel.asia, also in rec.travel, because I know what it’s like trying to follow a thread in Deja.com when a subject header changes and you’re not sure of the author. I did see posts on the same topic in rec.travel a week or two ago. Did they archive? I hope this post contain all the keywords, so clarifies things for other – is that OK by you? Heather (altair), have you tried a deja search? Helen Brown (Still traveling, but wired up to the Net again!) A campaign for increased tourist safety linked to a strategy against sex trafficking in Nepal? I would like to know more about this. Helen, I do know your Nepal Travel, Trekking and Trafficking site at http://www.blue-fox.com/nepal Is there anything more? BTW, this thread seems to have diversified into more than one forum with slightly different subject headers, which makes it harder to follow. Colin Bell

– Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter – Martin Luther King Jr.     Check Nepal Travel Trekking and Trafficking – http://www.blue-fox.com/nepal

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A campaign for increased tourist safety linked to a strategy against sex trafficking in Nepal? I would like to know more about this. I do know the http://www.blue-fox.com/nepal site. Is there anything more? BTW, this thread seems to have diversified into more than one forum with slightly different subject headers, which makes it harder to follow. Colin Bell – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – We’ve been impressed by the strategy against sex trafficking in Nepal that begins by making the tourism industry more accountable in its treatment of women tourists, who can still be sexually harassed and sexually exploited without proper redress. Check Nepal, Travel, Trekking and Trafficking – http://www.blue-fox.com/nepal Certain parties have vested interests in denying the facts and will go to extraordinary lengths to do so. There is a travel agent, married to a Nepalese tour operator, with whom we could sympathise because she is also the victim of her husbands’ sexual habits. [She must be if he goes to such lengths to sleep with other women and risks jeopardizing reputations in the process.] If she faces reality she has major problems in both her marriage and her business. If she denies reality, she can make believe all is well. What she apparently will not do is face the fact that her husband’s conduct is the root cause of her misery. This makes me sorry for her. A very difficult situation, but not a reason for endangering others through turning a blind eye. For her own convenience and peace of mind, she vehemently attacks all defenders of the truth. These attacks are not only verbal – they are also physical. Reliable witnesses have seen her knock a person to the

ground. <snip I included the complete reply in soc.culture.nepal. Colin Bell Before you buy.

Response:

We’ve been impressed by the strategy against sex trafficking in Nepal that begins by making the tourism industry more accountable in its treatment of women tourists, who can still be sexually harassed and sexually exploited without proper redress. Check Nepal, Travel, Trekking and Trafficking – http://www.blue-fox.com/nepal Certain parties have vested interests in denying the facts and will go to extraordinary lengths to do so. There is a travel agent, married to a Nepalese tour operator, with whom we could sympathise because she is also the victim of her husbands’ sexual habits. [She must be if he goes to such lengths to sleep with other women and risks jeopardizing reputations in the process.] If she faces reality she has major problems in both her marriage and her business. If she denies reality, she can make believe all is well. What she apparently will not do is face the fact that her husband’s conduct is the root cause of her misery. This makes me sorry for her. A very difficult situation, but not a reason for endangering others through turning a blind eye. For her own convenience and peace of mind, she vehemently attacks all defenders of the truth. These attacks are not only verbal – they are also physical. Reliable witnesses have seen her knock a person to the ground. We have permission to quote from an email from a person who is not surprisingly worried about retaliation. I was physically beaten up by a travel agent operating through the tour

operator who sexually abused me, purely on the grounds that I had taken him before the Nepalese authorities. They had found him guilty, yet left him in business. Publishing this is too easily dismissed by the opposition as "vindictive,

libellous" and so on. [Libellous -  it was independently witnessed.] Vindictive, actually, no! I believe that if this can happen unchecked in the tourism industry, people have a right to know so they can vote with their feet! If we can’t overcome issues like these, then how on earth can we use the human rights of western tourists as a tool to persuade the Nepalese authorities that women are human beings too, and all trafficking must stop! Our sympathies to all travel agents marketing holidays through responsible agents. We know you are many. Please help us to eradicate the minority who do not abide by your high standards, in the interests of a healthy travel industry and a step towards the end of trafficking. Thanks for your attention. Heather Archer — A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

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