Journey to Hell & Back - Nepal

Nov 2001
With undercover filming, we follow this "road to hell", and the harsh life of prostitution these girls are forced to endure. In a dark backroom in Bombay's red light district, we meet the girls who are held here as prisoners. Forced to line up like animals in a market, they all look in their teens. Their eyes are empty. Most of the girls are too psychologically damaged to even think about escaping. "What could we do if we escape? The police won't help you. They're all corrupt," says one young girl, Kalpana. It all started on her way home from work at a carpet factory in Kathmandu, when a landslide caused the bus to stop. "I was really thirsty. Two men said, 'Drink from this bottle.' After drinking a few sips, I blacked out." When she woke up, she was in a brothel in Bombay. Kalpana is only one of over 100,000 prostitutes here, many of them child prostitutes. There are several aid organisations working to expose child prostitution; Rescue Foundation is one of these, and has a number of informers working undercover in Bombay. We see a raid on a brothel suspected of housing under-age girls. 14 young girls emerge from a room with a hidden ceiling -- six or seven of them are Nepalese. The growing sex industry in India clearly provides the incentive for trafficking. But some think the problem stems from cultural traditions: "Women's personality is always defined in terms of sex and marital status," says lawyer Yubaraj Sangroula. And this is a much harder problem to tackle.

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[gicas73]

this isn't just a Nepalese or Indian issue. But a Worldwide problem!!!

[shyamranger]

India is Shit of the World.

[714dilema]

I can't wait till a group of people just go around saving girls and bombing buildings down, with even a lil support for there local government they can atleast make traffickers think twice. It should be life in prison for those who traffic children!!

[ChannalRyukGurung]

India .i.

[tltan88nyc]

I watch the video and I believe we could implant a bug, like they do for pets. Telling the person scanning the implant the name of the potential victim, the address and contact number. We could add the birthdate and so on. Border patrols can scan for the implant. Also volunteers stopping this trade can also do this scan.

[pandadrama1]

How dare men exploit women and girls like this ...anywhere in the world

[brokedudeonearth]

@geoenvirons1 get a gal fren dude.....i went to a parlor in nepal...paid the money but could not do it....i just dint feel it was right....i left and ive never returned there.....im glad i walked away....you just gotta be brave and say no..,,,

[sumanp007]

@sanjeevzn Too much of money makes people careless about what they have (like in the West) and too little of money makes people vulnerable to this kind of risk. Well said! :)

[sumanp007]

This is psychologically disturbing. However, a great documentary about what's going on in the lives of those young women...sad, very sad!

I really don't like the open border system between Nepal and India.

I wish I were the one who would govern the country...?

[sanjeevzn]

@usamassusa in your rich country they become prostitute for easy money, coz they choose it. Here they are forced without knowing they are being sold to india. ! Think twice !!

[environexplorer]

@angiesolomon85 thanks a lot..for ..posting and writing something to me which i can share my stories..i am sinner..pervert..whatever..i did the mistakes after mistakes..i am here in country of kangaroos,since two years..i started goin after i decided to go and get experienced...now whenver i get stress ..it diverts and reminds me of pleasure..so i keep on goin again..as a weekly..i tried hard...once i go and come back home..that is the last..gont to counsellor..but its been 100 times..cant cntrl