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by THI. Preventing even one girl from entering the conines
of an Indian brothel—a life characterized by rape, torture, and
violence—is powerful motivation to continue this vital work
(even in the face of frequent threats from traickers). Over the
past few years, THI has been privileged to be able to intercept
thousands of girls. One intercept at a time, THI confronts one
of the world’s greatest injustices—human traicking.

pages/viewdetails.aspx?src=ind&mtdsg_no=xviii-12a&chapter=18&lang=en (last updated May 15, 2014).
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also Nepal, Global Slavery Index 2013, http://www.globalslaveryindex.org/country/nepal/ (last visited May 15, 2014).

Kirklin Schweitzer received his J.D. from Regent
University School of Law. He currently works
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Overview, Global Slavery Index 2013, http://www.globalslaveryindex.org/indings/#overview (estimating that there are
29.8 million people in modern slavery) (last visited May 15, 2014,
5:29) [hereinater Overview]. India, Global Slavery Index 2013,
http://www.globalslaveryindex.org/country/india/ (noting that
the estimated number of enslaved people in India is approximately
13,300,000–14,700,000) (last visited May 15, 2014, 5:29), [hereinater India].
Arkansas is 52,035 square miles which amounts to approximately
135 square kilometers. See State & Country QuickFacts, U.S. Census Bureau, http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/05000.
html (last updated March 27, 2014). Nepal is 147,181 square
kilometers—slightly larger than Arkansas. Nepal, CIA World
Factbook, https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/theworld-factbook/geos/np.html (last updated Apr. 14, 2014)
[hereinater CIA World Factbook].

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Human Development Report 2013, United Nations Development Programme 18 (2013) (Nepal ranks 157th out of 187
countries), available at http://www.unas.org.sg/wp-content/
uploads/2013/07/HDR2013-Summary-English.pdf.

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Protocol to Prevent, Suppress, and Punish Traicking in Persons,
Especially Women and Children, Nov. 15, 2000, 2237 U.N.T.S. 319,
available at http://www.osce.org/odihr/19223?download=true.
Nepal, however, has not ratiied this protocol. See United
Nations Treaty Collections, https://treaties.un.org/

See Nepal, Trafficking in Persons Report 275 (2013), available at http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/210741.
pdf (identifying Nepal as a “source transit”).
Human Trafficking Assessment Tool Report for Nepal,
American Bar Association 1 (2011).
UNICEF, Equality, Development and Peace 33 (2000). See
also Katie Orlinsky, Women, Bought and Sold in Nepal, N.Y. Times
(Aug 31, 2013), http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/01/opinion/sunday/women-bought-and-sold-in-nepal.html?_r=0. his
number is even higher if you include Nepali girls traicked into the
Gulf countries.
See Human Traicking and Transportation (Control) Act, July 24,
2007, available at http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/population/
traicking/nepal.traicking.07.pdf.
For more information about Tiny Hands International, please see
tinyhandsinternational.org.
Rape for Profit: Trafficking of Nepali Girls and Women
to India’s Brothels, Human Rights Watch/Asia 15 (1995),
available at http://www.hrw.org/reports/pdfs/c/crd/india957.
pdf.
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