Nepal quake survivors face threat from human traffickers supplying sex trade

Criminal networks using cover of rescue effort to target poor rural communities in country from which an estimated 15,000 girls are trafficked a year, warn NGOs

  
Armed Nepalese police help people in Sindhupalchok district board a helicopter to Kathmandu after last month’s earthquake. Photograph: Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters

Jason Burke in Kathmandu-Tuesday 5 May 2015
Tens of thousands of young women from regions devastated by the earthquake inNepal are being targeted by human traffickers supplying a network of brothels across south Asia, campaigners in Kathmandu and affected areas say.

The Guardian’s Pete Pattisson reports from Barkobot, a Nepalese village hard hit by the earthquake

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