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• The border between Nepal and India is notoriously busy with human trafficking, particularly for young Nepalese women and girls. 

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• Learn more about human trafficking and how to make an impact.

The 1,758-kilometre (1,092-mile) border between Nepal and India has always been known as one of the busiest human trafficking gateways in the world.

Since a 2015 earthquake in Nepal - which killed nearly 9,000 people, severely disrupted social and economic structures, and sank scores into destitution - the numbers have risen sharply, with thousands of Nepalese being trafficked across the border and vanishing, never to return.

Nepalese victims are plunged into the world of human trafficking in different ways. Some hoped to find jobs as domestic workers in India or Gulf countries but ended up being trafficked and raped in brothels abroad. Others were simply whisked away from their families and sold to brothels in India.

Many others fall prey to another type of human trafficking: illegal organ harvesting in India.

Research suggests that "approximately 12,000 children are trafficked by strangers, neighbours and families to India every year mainly for sexual exploitation" but also for work in fisheries, construction, circuses, domestic work, sweatshops, among many other forms of forced labour and exploitation, also including organ removal.

Nepal's civil society is trying to fight back. Every day, border monitors, some of whom are trafficking survivors themselves, try to intercept and rescue potential victims at border posts, preventing them from being trafficked out of Nepal. Others raise their voices against the deep social stigma that pursues its victims at home.

Read the full article about human trafficking in Nepal by Violeta Santos Moura at AlJazeera.