Thousands of girls and young women in western Nepal are working as indentured domestic servants in conditions campaigners say amount to slavery. Parents send them away in exchange for a small sum of money paid by landlords who sometimes keep the girls for years until they virtually lose touch with their families.
Charitable groups have freed nearly three thousand such girls, who are known as Kamlaris – but in many places the practice continues undisturbed. The BBC’s Charles Haviland visits Dang in western Nepal. |
