World IN BRIEF : INDIA : Report Decries Trafficking in Girls
About half of Bombay’s 100,000 prostitutes are young women bought in Nepal and then raped, beaten and held in brothels as slaves, a New York-based human rights group said. Human Rights Watch blamed the governments of Nepal and India for permitting the traffic in Nepalese women, sought by brothels in Bombay because of their light skin. The report said many are lured from remote, impoverished villages with promises of marriage or jobs, then sold for $4 to brokers who deliver them to the brothels. In 1991, the average age of recruits from Nepal was 10, down from 16 in the 1980s, the group said.
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