“MoFA failed to act, says House panel report”, 9 August 2017

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) failed to act despite reports about human trafficking…officials from other state agencies, including the immigration department, colluded with human traffickers to send Nepali migrant workers to the Gulf, according to a parliamentary report...Several Nepali missions based in the Gulf had reported [to] MoFA about dozens of individuals and companies involved in human trafficking, but the ministry turned a blind eye, says the report of a sub-committee of the International Relations and Labour Committee of Parliament…[T]he House committee members had found during their interviews with around 1,000 [Nepali] women in the Gulf countries that they had suffered physical, mental and sexual violence...