Children enter the Adult Entertainment Sector and face labour exploitation and sexual abuse

This is a report of CLARISSA Nepal Action Research Group 8, which is located in a busy commercial, historical and tourist destination in the centre of Kathmandu Valley. The area is famous for its multiple big-scale shopping complexes and wholesale markets and for being a hotspot for street vendors and small-scale Adult Entertainment Sector (AES) venues. As many children and young people work in the AES in this area, the location was selected as one of the most important working locations for CLARISSA Action Research. The theme of this group was ‘Children enter the AES through friends, relatives, and unknown persons and face labour exploitation and sexual abuse’.