Women's Issues: 7,000 women trafficked from Nepal each year

Mohan Prasad Ghimire, judge of the Pokhara Appellate Court of western Kaski district in Nepal, claims that about 7,000 women are being trafficked from Nepal every year - the majority being sold by their own relatives.

At a conference entitled, "United Nation's Millennium Development Goal for Gender Equality and Women Empowerment," he also claimed that the practice of sending a son in a high quality private school but a daughter to a low quality of government school, is still widespread.