KATHMANDU: Speakers at a program have stressed the need for a strong collaboration among multiple agencies to reduce violence entrenched in entertainment sector. Individual awareness is equally important to avoid the risk, they added.
At the programme on management of labours in entertainment sector organized by Rakshya Nepal here Thursday, Member of the National Women Commission, Krishna Kumari Khatiwada, viewed the women of 14 to 45-year age group were involved in the entertainment sector, so the Commission was working to reduce violence against them.
“Campaigns are needed from the women and the households themselves to wipe out violence,” she said, urging the local levels to maintain the data of such women and children engaged in entertainment sector and share it with the Commission to work in collaboration.
On the occasion, Superintendent of Police at Human Trafficking Control Bureau of Nepal Police, Dan Bahadur Malla, informed that Nepal Police had mobilized police in plain clothes to scrutinize the activities in entertainment sector- dance bar, dohori ghars etc. He urged the women facing violence to call at 1177.
Former chairperson of Nepal Trade Union Congress, Khilanath Dahal, said more than 80 percent business of informal sector were run without being registered, so government should take this issue seriously. The labours must not be engaged in works for more than 42 hours in a week, he underlined.
Officer at the National Human Rights Commission, Yashoda Banjade, viewed it is necessary to change social perspective toward the people working in entertainment sector like dance bar.
Chairperson of Rakshya Nepal, Menuka Thapa, informed that the organization was providing shelter to the women facing difficulty while working in entertainment sector as dance bar, parlour. Assistance was provided to their children’s schooling as well. The rape victims are provided assistance throughout life, she added.
