Kathmandu, Aug. 17:
The Members of Parliament (MPs) in today's House of Representatives (HoR) meeting suggested the government to remove the term 'prostitution' from the Bill to Amend the Human Trafficking and Transportation (Control) Act, stating that the laws should have respectful language towards women.
Taking part in the theoretical discussions on the bill tabled by Minister for Women, Children, Gender and Sexual Minorities and Social Security Sita Badi in today's HoR meeting, the lawmakers called for victim-centric laws.
MPs Indira Ranamagar, Sajida Khatun Siddique, Shova Khanal and other urged to remove the term 'prostitution', which is used multiple times in the bill. The MPs viewed that such terminologies are disrespectful to women.
Likewise, MP Srishti Bhattarai said the form of human trafficking has changed and the laws should be relevant to the context and added that a 'rapid response team' should be formed to rescue the citizens stranded abroad.
MPs Akriti Awasthi, Manmaya Bishwakarma and Nishkal Rai said that the law should ensure rights and the issue of treatment of survivors, not merely the provisions of punishment to the perpetrators, and compensation and rehabilitation for the survivors should be made effective.
Meanwhile, the proposal seeking consideration on bill was unanimously approved by the lower house. The proposal was presented for a decision by Speaker Dol Prasad Aryal.
The next meeting of the House of Representatives will be held at 11:00 am on Tuesday.(RSS)
