I caught the the second half of the show. There was a time when the very mention of the word 'Nepal' on television would get me glued to the screen infront of me. That was till Nepal started appearing in the news for reasons that weren't very flattering. From people sacrificing goats to make planes fly to some fathers selling off their daughters to the country being unable to elect a prime minister for the thousandth time, I found myself cringing everytime a story about Nepal appeared in the Western media.

While some of these stories raise some pressing issues, I think we need to be careful, as Nepalese, not to see Nepal through the jaded eyes of the Western media  because if we do so we risk seeing Nepal in caricature only. Yes, it is reprehensible that there is human trafficking in a poor country like Nepal. What is most shocking is that every year tens of thousands of US citizens are trafficked in an advanced country like the US as some of the previous posters have pointed out. Why is one story so much more sensationalized than the other?

I thought the documenary was quite informative and I liked it's focus, at least in the part I saw, on what was being done to fight it. I think we need to admit that we have a problem -- we can disagree over how big of a problem it is -- and take pride in what we as society are doing to change it. Anuradha Koirala deserves credit and her contributions are well documented and applauded. As for Demi Moore, I could care less, but I think someone must have figured having a celebrity on their side certainly helps with raising awarenss (and probably funds too!)