The documentary makes you feel teary eyed at the sheer inhumanity of it all. Innocent lives affected like nothing else. Few things to ponder:

- Prime Minister gives Demi Moore the permission to go talk to a convict, but she is denied the luxury by the prison guard who has the ability to circumvent the orders of the Prime Minister. It was embarassing moment for Nepalis watching how a position of Prime Minister is not worth anything.

- In addition to what Maiti Nepal is doing from the Nepali side to stop trafficking, it would be also be ideal to pressure the Indian government to curb such heinous crime in thier country for not doing anything actively against such crime. Organizations such as Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher foundation have millions of dollars they can use to help. If they were able to put some sort of reward for Indian police for helping send these girls home - let's say $100 for every girl returned to Nepal from the brothels then if the DNA Foundation can generate $10 million, it would mean 100,000 Nepali girls are returned or saved from this crime.

Good thoughts. I also watched it. I was in tears. I hope with the generosity of Demi moore, this crime will end pretty soon. All we need is to educate women and children in the rural areas.

Neo: is there a functionality where I would be able to only see comments from certain users and not others while I can participate fully. I know it is called "ignore" in real life...but talking about having that feature installed so that i can filter out certain individuals comments i do not wish to see?

Chaure i'm thinking of putting in a feature that allows Users to BLOCK certain users from replying to any of  their threads.

I haven't thought about a global block it might look a little odd because if Ignored users start a thread and others reply to it - should it be shown or not...

ok for example if I add a user to my blocked list...and the blocked user starts a thread...can there a be a notification that will tell me that  "a user that you have added to your blocked list started this thread and commented first or commented here" and maybe Unblock to view and/or reply? maybe unblock feature be added?

 what she has done is definitely a good work...now maiti nepal has been exposed to the world, it  might get some donors, and more funding...which definitely is going to be helpful in curbing the girl trafficking problem in nepal.. but if u look at it from a differing perspective..these hollywood celebrities are name and fame hungry..and the actors like her whos lost her appeal in this industry are always in a lookout to stand apart and aspire to be global citizens that gives them a chance for publiity...its like ..they are competing with each other in who is endorsing a greater cause in the third world...she is just one example..there  are others like angelina jolie, leonardo dicaprio, orlando bloom, ben affleck, morgan freeman and many more...but then if publicity comes from doing a good work ...there is nothing wrong with it...specially when it helps an organizatins like maiti nepal which is fighting this chronic problem,gain momentum on it cause...i dont see anything wrong!!
 

I also personally dont like the  documentary and I think by  airing it they just want to show how things are bad in Nepal but they dont realize that almost similar things happeneing in US and elswhere in so called developed countries.

I think most of the Nepalis, if you are not a ignorant, know about the girls trafficking in Nepal, because this type of stories are  published in many Nepali news papers.
The documentary will serve good to those Nepalis which were unware of the situation.
BUt whatever done is done. We cant time travel and stop it. Now we should think how we can benefit from it? One way is as suggested by Neo.
India claims herself as a biggest democracy, developed, blah bhal, but what type of democratic country allowes open human  trafficking ?
Although it is not possible to stop 100%, if Indian governement is serious 70 to 80 % of girl trafficking can be stopped.
What can we do,? We should raise this issue with Indians whenever we have opprtunity. Use social media like face book, asking why India is keeping blind eye on girl trafficking ?
It will create a pressure on Indian government, and some international organization also may want to involve.
otherwise the documentary will be just a shame on us.

i don't get it at all.... So should no hollywood star, politicians or any famous figures who are past prime be involved in any charity or support any charities at all just cause people think they are doing it for fame?
what have we done lately to make a difference? to be honest I have not done anything directly as these stars have and i think they are doing a good job. Instead of making useless assumptions why don't we just support what they are doing and shift the focus on the CAUSE rather than individuals who are working for the CAUSE.

Nas bro,

when her own billion dollar US Government funded contractors like Dynecorp, Halliburton, Kellog-Brown-Root (KBR) have been trafficking boys and girls as young as 12 years as sex slaves worldwide.

Can you provide some links on what you are talking about above. I am interested in knowing this. I know there is a huge sex trade that goes between models of the west (preferably the white girls) and Sultans of Arabs. Once there was a documentary on how the Sultans and rich Arabs keep models as their personal whores for certain number of years and they send them back with 5 - 6 million bucks. Are you talking about those kind of trades or is there something else?

Nas,

The link does not seem to work.....thanks anyway....i will google it after work today.

2002? Comon NAS you can do better than that. Anything more pressing and new?

NAS Bro

You are jumping the gun here. I did not say anything except make a comment about the year of the news you posted. That news is pretty old. Don't you think?

Sex trade exists in many countries you are correct but this one is about sex trade of Nepali girls thats why I am concerned. Demi Moore does say in the documentary she wants to learn so that she could use her knowledge in help to fight traffickers in the US.

Even in US, presidents go to Talk shows so that doesn't make them lose their value or credibility. If stars choose to give some exposure to the problems in our country, that is a good thing because more exposure means more people are aware and something positive may come out of it. If it's a win win situation for everyone involved including the celebrity then there's no reason to discourage it.

 i am with bad boy 

I caught the the second half of the show. There was a time when the very mention of the word 'Nepal' on television would get me glued to the screen infront of me. That was till Nepal started appearing in the news for reasons that weren't very flattering. From people sacrificing goats to make planes fly to some fathers selling off their daughters to the country being unable to elect a prime minister for the thousandth time, I found myself cringing everytime a story about Nepal appeared in the Western media.

While some of these stories raise some pressing issues, I think we need to be careful, as Nepalese, not to see Nepal through the jaded eyes of the Western media  because if we do so we risk seeing Nepal in caricature only. Yes, it is reprehensible that there is human trafficking in a poor country like Nepal. What is most shocking is that every year tens of thousands of US citizens are trafficked in an advanced country like the US as some of the previous posters have pointed out. Why is one story so much more sensationalized than the other?

I thought the documenary was quite informative and I liked it's focus, at least in the part I saw, on what was being done to fight it. I think we need to admit that we have a problem -- we can disagree over how big of a problem it is -- and take pride in what we as society are doing to change it. Anuradha Koirala deserves credit and her contributions are well documented and applauded. As for Demi Moore, I could care less, but I think someone must have figured having a celebrity on their side certainly helps with raising awarenss (and probably funds too!)