15 / Feb 2016
“Nepal’s Slave Girls” an AlJazeera documentary made by journalist and feminist Subina Shrestha in 2013.
It is about the Kamlari tradition, though outlawed still practiced throughout middle class homes specially in Kathmandu.
It all started back when the girls from the Tharu community, an indigenous group that was stripped of its land and forced into bonded labour after Nepal’s first social order was introduced 160 years ago. Tharus farm the land of their landlord and, in return, give back half of what they produce. Often, they trade away their daughters as well.
Can the young girls be free from behind the hidden walls of city homes?
Event Location:
Voices Of Women Media