Shakti Samuha

Shakti Samuha

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Last update: Jan 21, 2025 Last update: Jan 21, 2025
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Legal residence:Nepal
Organization type:NGO
Funding agencies:Other
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Sectors:Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid & Emergency, Law
Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid & Emergency, Law
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Shakti Samuha is the world’s first organization which has been established and run by the survivors of human trafficking. In 1996, the Indian government conducted a raid in the red light area in Mumbai and freed about 500 young girls from Nepal, India, and Bangladesh and kept them in government houses. The young girls were forced to stay at those houses despite the inhuman treatment and criminal environment against them. Though the Nepalese girls wanted to return home, the Nepalese government did not approve their arrival in the fear that they might bring HIV aids back home. During the same time, 7 organizations who were working against the human trafficking ( WOREC Nepal, ABC Nepal, CWIN, Maiti Nepal, Nawa Jyoti Kendra, and Istri Shakti) were able to bring home those girls from India. From among them, 12 girls were kept in the rehabilitation center of WOREC Nepal.

WOREC Nepal conducted 10 days of basic training to those girls about gender, health services, and trafficking. There were 15 girls in total who participated in that training. After the training, the girls concluded that it was not their fault to be involved in trafficking and opined that trafficking had taken roots in the Nepalese society as a crime. So, in order to stop, the 15 girls came together and established the SHAKTI SAMUHA with the determination of  ‘ Turning tears into Power’. Shakti Samuha worked unofficially against human trafficking since 1996 and in 2000 AD only it was officially registered and started working legally.

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