Rape for Profit: Trafficking of Nepali Girls and Women to India's Brothels
Human Rights Watch/Asia 1995
This book is about tragedy, major tragedy. Unfortunately, Rape jar Profit is also a tragedy, and not a minor one. The world listens to Human Rights Watch and HRW wasn´t watching, it was dozing. The book will have impact, and will solidify an obsolete perception of the trafficking industry in Nepal.
The book is a competent summary of a handful of reliable data and a shovelful of questionable data and outdated conventional wisdom. You´ve seen it on TV, you´ve read it in Newsweek poor Tamang girl from Nuwakot gets abducted to India and ends up an HIV-positive brothel slave. It is clearly a good story, it keeps selling. However, it is a portrait of trafficking circa 1989, and doesn´t reflect the radical changes the trafficking industry has undergone since—changes we must be aware of if trafficking is to be confronted.