Khadga Bahadur Basnet
Mornag DDC President
Morang District Police Office

   - Equal responsibility for all organizations

Week long training program in Biratnager
January 2000

Tulsi Prasad Bhattari
Chief District Officer

   - Trained manpower should be posted at exit points of country

Week long training program in Biratnager
January 2000

Kalyan Kumar Timsina
Superintendent of Police
Morang District Police Office

   - Awareness campaigns have been launched

Week long training program in Biratnager
January 2000

Bharat Chudal
Senior Superintendent of Police
Kathmandu District Police Office

   - It will take more than just the government to fix the problem

Two day orientation program on Prevention and Control of Women Trafficking and Child Sex Exploitation
Kathmandu
March 1999

Ishwori Bhattarai
Ministry of Women and Social Welfare

   - Political leaders must put pressure on administrators to release girls

Two day orientation program on Prevention and Control of Women Trafficking and Child Sex Exploitation
Kathmandu
March 1999

Govind Prasad Thapa
DIGP, Nepal Police

   - silent sufferers are increasing
   - legal reform
   - awareness of problem in entire community

Four day-long regional seminar on developing better methods of joint investigation and tracing missing persons organized by British Embassy and Nepal Police
Nepal
February 1999

Dharanidhar Khatiwada
Joint Secretary of the Ministry of Women and Social Welfare

   - issues of child abuse in Nepal have not reached international forum

Four day-long regional seminar on developing better methods of joint investigation and tracing missing persons organized by British Embassy and Nepal Police
Nepal
February 1999

Bharat Chudal
Senior Superintendent of Police

   - need help from NGOs for effective control of girl trafficking

Four day-long regional seminar on developing better methods of joint investigation and tracing missing persons organized by British Embassy and Nepal Police
Nepal
February 1999

Madhav Kumar Nepal
General Secretary of CPN (UML)

   - reactive support from people to curb sex trafficking
   - escalated by poverty and illiteracy
   - punishing politicians that protect criminals

Seminar on human rights, child prostitution and trafficking
Kathmandu
January 1999

Herve Berger
Human Rights and Peace Society
Seminar on human rights, child prostitution and trafficking
Kathmandu
January 1999

Krishna Pahadi
Human Rights and Peace Society
Seminar on human rights, child prostitution and trafficking
Kathmandu
January 1999

Krishan Kandel
Human Rights and Peace Society
Seminar on human rights, child prostitution and trafficking
Kathmandu
January 1999

Somsri Berger
Chairperson of Amnesty International- Thailand
Seminar on human rights, child prostitution and trafficking
Kathmandu
January 1999

Binod Nepal
Chairperson of Amnesty International- Nepal
Seminar on human rights, child prostitution and trafficking
Kathmandu
January 1999

Shushil Payakurel
Chairperson of INSEC
Seminar on human rights, child prostitution and trafficking
Kathmandu
January 1999

Yubaraj Sangroula
Coordinator of Centre for Legal Research and Resource Development (CeLRRD)
Release of Chhori (Music Album: Mela and Mahili)

   - deeply rooted prejudices against women is partial cause in trafficking
   - education is good way to combat trafficking

Kathmandu
February 2000

Dr. Shanta Thapalia
President of LACC and CJC
  Consultancy Centre (LACC)

   - Only NGO providing legal aid to child victims of sexual abuse and exploitation,  trafficking, labor, and bondages
   - child trafficking is directly related to cultural and traditional practices such as child marriages

Other attendees: Lalitpur CDO Office, Police Head Office’s Crime Investigation Women Cell, CWIN, Maiti Nepal
Seminar based on launching a Children Justice Centre (CJC) through the Legal Aid
Kathmandu
February 1999

Naresh Newar
Journalist that has done extensive research on trafficking

      - cannot get true picture of problem because there are a lack of concrete facts

Geeta Uprety
In charge of Women’s Cell at the Valley Police Headquarters

     -  alarmed at increase in numbers of trafficked women

Sapna Pradhan Malla
Advocate for legal rights of prostitutes

   - exploitation will be minimized if prostitutes have access to legal resources

Anuradha Koirala
Director of Maiti Nepal (NGO working to rehabilitate trafficked women)

   - there are new markets in India and South East Asian countries for trafficked Nepali women
   - traffickers have gotten around laws forbidding women to work in Middle East by going through India first

Indu Aryal
ABC Nepal (NGO)

     -  cases right now are just tip of iceberg

Catie Lott
USAID, Office of Women in Development

      -  met with government officials, social workers, and toured villages to learn about sex trafficking
      - satisfaction that progress is being made

Frank Ralph
US Ambassador to Nepal

   - satisfaction of progress being made with committee sent to Nepal