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This study examines domestic legislation and legal procedures Nepal as they relate to the commercial sexual exploitation of children. It also analyses these laws and procedures in light of the relevant regional and international standards and recommends legislative and procedural reforms to better protect children against commercial sexual exploitation.

The paper finds that children in Nepal are not protected sufficiently against commercial sexual exploitation, it lacks a comprehensive legal framework and fails to enforce existing laws and legal procedures.

The report makes a number of recommendation regarding laws and procedures to better protect children. These include:

• Nepalese laws should be drafted and/or amended to harmonise them with international standards
• Nepalese laws should be strengthened by ratifying the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography and other international instruments related to the commercial sexual exploitation of children
• crimes that result in the commercial sexual exploitation of children should be made extraditable offences under the Nepal-India Extradition Treaty
• Nepal should raise public awareness of sexual crimes against children
• develop a system to monitor cases of abuse and train law enforcement on using scientific techniques to investigate sexual crimes against children
• Nepal should adopt policies and establish additional Children’s Homes, Juvenile Reform Homes, and quality government and non-government counselling and rehabilitation centres to better support the rehabilitation and reintegration of child survivors of commercial sexual exploitation
• coordination needs to be improved among law enforcement, judicial officers, lawyers, and social service providers.

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