Established in 1987, Child Workers in Nepal Concerned Centre (CWIN) is an organisation that advocates for the rights of children and focuses on children living and working in difficult circumstances. The main issues focused on by CWIN’s are child labour, street children, child marriage, bonded labour, trafficking of children, children in conflict with the law and the commercial sexual exploitation of children.
Maiti Nepal is committed to preventing the trafficking and sexual exploitation of women and children. It is actively engaged in protecting, rescuing and rehabilitating trafficked and sexually exploited survivors through action-oriented activities at different levels.
Shakti Samuha is the first organisation in Nepal established and run by survivors of trafficking. Since 1996 it has been organising and empowering returning trafficking survivors by providing shelter, legal aid, vocational training and counselling. The vision of Shakti Samuha is that trafficking survivors will be empowered to lead a dignified life in society. Its mission is trafficking survivors and women and children at risk of trafficking will be organised, empowered and aware, which will enable them to contribute to campaigns against human trafficking, protecting women and girls living in vulnerable conditions.
ChildSafeNet is a Nepal-based non-governmental organisation dedicated to making the internet safer for children and young people. Created in 2018, ChildSafeNet works to raise awareness on cyber safety and to online child sexual abuse and exploitation, cyberbullying, phishing and gaming addiction. The organisation focuses its work on developing toolkits and guides to duty-bearers and services providers, conducting researches on issues affecting online safety, raising awareness on cybersecurity through both online and offline environments, and providing capacity buildings to relevant actors in Nepal.
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Year: 2020
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Age of sexual consent is set at 18 years. The national legislation does not provide for a close-in-age exemption.
ECO Nepal, 2020
Partial
Universal jurisdiction is provided for some SEC related offences such as rape against girls and CEFM. Passive extraterritoriality is provided for trafficking crimes. For the rest of the crimes it is required that both victim and offender are Nepalese to exercise extraterritoriality.
Extradition applies only to those crimes included in extradition treaties concluded between Nepal and foreign states and conventions to which Nepal is a party. It is unclear which SEC related offences are extraditable and whether double criminality is required.
SECTT Legal Checklist Nepal, 2020
No
The national legislation does not provide a definition of CSAM which is in line with international standards. The definition provided does not include non-visual material, nor material depicting a person appearing to be a minor and computer/digitally generated CSAM including realistic images of non-existing children.
ECO Nepal, 2020
No
There are no mandatory legal provisions for criminal background checks. Convicted sex offenders are prohibited from holding positions in both public and private settings involving or facilitating contact with children.
SECTT Legal Checklist Nepal, 2020
Partial
Nepal has ratified the CRC, the OPSC, the Trafficking Protocol and the ILO Convention No. 182.
Nepal has not ratified the OPIC, the UNWTO Framework Convention on Tourism Ethics nor the Council of Europe’s Lanzarote and Budapest Conventions.
SECTT Legal Checklist Nepal, 2020
Not Yet Assessed
Partial
There are several police units including SEC in their mandates, mainly the Anti-Trafficking-in- Persons Bureau and the Cybercrime
Control Bureau. It is unclear whether both offences under national and extra-territorial jurisdiction are able to be addressed by these units, or whether they are fully functional.
ECO Nepal, 2020
No
There are no child protection standards for the travel and tourism industry in place.
SECTT Legal Checklist Nepal, Aug-20
No
Data is only available for trafficking cases. No information was found on whether this data is clearly disaggregated, made available periodically and whether it contains data on offenders and on compensation sought by victims.
ECO Nepal, 2020
