Identifier
Created
Classification
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06KATHMANDU315
2006-01-31 09:42:00
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Embassy Kathmandu
Cable title:  

INTERIM TIP ASSESSMENT DELIVERED

Tags:  PREL PGOV PHUM KHUM SMIG NP 
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OO RUEHWEB

DE RUEHKT #0315 0310942
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
O 310942Z JAN 06
FM AMEMBASSY KATHMANDU
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 0123
INFO RUEHLM/AMEMBASSY COLOMBO PRIORITY 4121
RUEHKA/AMEMBASSY DHAKA PRIORITY 9188
RUEHIL/AMEMBASSY ISLAMABAD PRIORITY 2105
RUEHNE/AMEMBASSY NEW DELHI PRIORITY 9127
RHEHNSC/NSC WASHDC PRIORITY
UNCLAS KATHMANDU 000315 

SIPDIS

SENSITIVE
SIPDIS

DEPT FOR SA/INS, SA/RA
NSC FOR DRICHELSOPH

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL PGOV PHUM KHUM SMIG NP
SUBJECT: INTERIM TIP ASSESSMENT DELIVERED

REF: A. STATE 2172

B. STATE 15286

UNCLAS KATHMANDU 000315

SIPDIS

SENSITIVE
SIPDIS

DEPT FOR SA/INS, SA/RA
NSC FOR DRICHELSOPH

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL PGOV PHUM KHUM SMIG NP
SUBJECT: INTERIM TIP ASSESSMENT DELIVERED

REF: A. STATE 2172

B. STATE 15286


1. (SBU) Per ref B, Post delivered Nepal's Interim Assessment
report of progress made on anti-trafficking efforts (ref A)
on January 31 to Shyam Sundar Sharma, Joint Secretary,
Ministry of Women, Children and Social Welfare, Yadav Kanal,
Under Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Parbati
Thapa, Superintendent of Police, Nepal Police Women's Cell.



2. (SBU) Addressing some of the areas of needed improvement
mentioned in the Interim Assessment, Sharma noted that: a)
Nepal's Trafficking Action Plan was being followed; b)
trafficking task forces in 26 districts have been more active
recently; c) Nepal ratified the South Asian Association for
Regional Cooperation's (SAARC) Convention on Preventing and
Combating Trafficking in Women and Children for Prostitution
in November 2005; d) Nepal and India have increased sharing
of trafficking related information; and e) the Nepal Police
Women's Cell had begun collecting data on trafficking crimes.
Sharma added that he was "really impressed" by the report.
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