Controlling human trafficking in Nepal: Activist says there are improvements but the sector awaits concerted efforts

It was just her tenacity and zeal to control human trafficking to a maximum extent that impelled Benu Maya Gurung to serve in the anti-human trafficking sector. She is satisfied with what she has been doing for the last 18 years but also is aware that there is still a long way to go.

Gurung is currently an executive director at Alliance Against Trafficking in Women and Children in Nepal ( AATWIN ), a national-level network against human trafficking . She has been working with the network since 2004. While many of her contemporaries have left the sector, Gurung says she still has the same energy as in the past to work for the betterment of this sector.