A Global Fight

The parliamentary privilege of the House of Commons to control the publication and broadcast of the proceedings of the House of Commons and its Committees is nonetheless reserved. [...] McDougall, the Government of Canada has focused on the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women in its international assistance programs.10 The Subcommittee focused its study on the six countries under the mandate of the South Asia bureau of the UNODC – Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka.11 South Asia is home to one-fifth of the world’s population and has cou [...] The UN Convention for the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) require state parties to take all appropriate measures to suppress the traffic, exploitation and prostitution of women,20 and to protect children from all forms of sexual exploitation, respectively.21 Canada and the South Asian states studied are all party to the CED [...] In light of testimony, the Subcommittee has made four recommendations to the Government of Canada on the matters of combating corruption, enhancing data collection and detection capacity, prioritizing the fight against sex trafficking in development aid and bilateral relations, and partnering with civil society in the fight against sex trafficking. [...] The U. S. Department of State notes that it is not clear whether the Act’s definition of human trafficking includes the exploitation of the prostitution of adults, though the prostitution of children is specifically included as a form of “exploitative conduct” that is criminalized.156 The U. S. Department of State reported that in Nepal, government efforts to identify domestic sex trafficking surv