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  • Traffickers exploit increased mobility of underage girls. IRIN PlusNews, 04 September 2007. Sixteen-year-old Sushma does not want to reveal her true identity for fear that the traffickers who sold her into the notorious brothel area of Kamathipura in Mumbai, India, could track her down and kill her.
  • Nepal women strip to protest prostitution tradition. Reuters, 22 August 2007. Nepali police detained 13 women on Wednesday for stripping to their undergarments to protest against a widespread practice of forcing girls from their community into prostitution.
  • Traffickers exploit increased mobility of underage girls. IRIN News, 22 August 2007. Sixteen-year-old Sushma does not want to reveal her true identity for fear that the traffickers who sold her into the notorious brothel area of Kamathipura in Mumbai, India, could track her down and kill her.
  • Impoverished rural women prone to exploitation in towns. IRIN News, 12 June 2007. Maili Buda, 35, is having an increasingly difficult life since her husband was killed in Khalanga village, northwest of the capital, during a clash between the Maoist rebels and government security forces nearly six years ago.
  • Impoverished Nepalese girls tricked into prostitution. IRIN News, 9 May 2007. For the past three years, 25-year-old Sita Maskey has been fighting a court battle in the Nepalese capital, Kathmandu, to punish alleged trafficker Rekha Karki, who she says tricked her into forced prostitution in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates.
  • Brutal killings in Nepal could have been prevented, UN human rights arm says
    UN News, 20 April 2007. On 21 March, 27 people, including four women and one 17-year-old girl, were killed and many more injured at the Rice Mill field in Gaur, central Nepal.

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