Human Trafficking in [Cambodia Street Children in [Cambodia] [other countries]Child Prostitution in [Cambodia] [other countries] |
Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early years of the 21st
Century - 2000 to 2010 gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Cambodia.htm
Cambodia is a source, transit, and destination country for
men, women, and children trafficked for the purpose of commercial sexual
exploitation and forced labor. Women and girls are trafficked to Thailand and
Malaysia for exploitative labor as domestic workers and forced prostitution.
Some Cambodian men migrate willingly to Thailand and Malaysia for work and
are subsequently subjected to conditions of forced labor in the fishing,
construction, and agricultural industries. Parents sometimes sell their children into involuntary
servitude to serve as beggars, into brothels for commercial sexual
exploitation, or into domestic servitude. Within Cambodia, children are
trafficked for forced begging, waste scavenging, salt production, brick
making, and quarrying. - U.S.
State Dept Trafficking in Persons Report, June, 2009 [full country report] |
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FEATURED ARTICLES *** Child trafficking takes new forms in Southeast Asia Rafael D. Frankel, Special to The Christian Science
Monitor, Battambang www.csmonitor.com/2001/1212/p7s2-woap.html [accessed 26 January 2011] When he was 12, his parents in
rural "The trafficker told my
parents he would send them $55 a month," the boy says. "But I would
earn $18 or $25 every day or night I begged." Over the next three years, the boy
escaped twice and made his way home. But the trafficker found him,
repurchased him, and took him back to Thailand. The second time, his parents
sold his younger brother as well. Slavery Continues in the Form of Forced Prostitution Ed Vitagliano, News Editor for
American Family Association AFA Journal, Agape Press, April 15, 2004 www.crosswalk.com/1257639/page2/ [accessed 26 January 2011] Psychiatrist Wendy Freed authored a report for Physicians
for Human Rights. Her report on the psychological aspects of women trapped in
sexual slavery in Cambodia presented this frightening pattern faced by
thousands of girls and women: "The young women have been in
captivity for a period of weeks to months or years. Initially there is shock
and disbelief. Many young women describe not being able to believe that they
had been sold .... Once they realize that in fact they are sold, they fight
the brothel owner's demand that they accept customers. Refusal leads to
beatings, being locked in a room, and going without food. This persists until
the young woman gives up and realizes that indeed they are trapped and have
no options .... At some point in this process, the young woman becomes
submissive in order to avoid further beatings and torment; her 'spirit is
broken.' She surrenders, becomes resigned and accommodates to the
circumstances of captivity." ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms
of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/cambodia.htm [accessed 26 January 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61604.htm [accessed 26 January 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS – Children
were trafficked to Trafficking victims, especially
those trafficked for sexual exploitation, faced the risk of contracting sexually
transmitted diseases, including HIV/AIDS. In some cases victims were detained
and physically and mentally abused by traffickers, brothel owners, and
clients. Traffickers used a variety of
methods to acquire victims. In many cases victims were lured by promises of
legitimate employment. In other cases acquaintances, friends, and family
members sold the victims or received payment for helping deceive them. Young
children, the majority of them girls, were often "pledged" as
collateral for loans by desperately poor parents; the children were
responsible for repaying the loan and the accumulating interest. Local
traffickers covered specific small geographic areas and acted as middlemen
for larger trafficking networks. Organized crime groups, employment agencies,
and marriage brokers were believed to have some degree of involvement Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of
the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 2 June 2000 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/cambodia2000.html [accessed 26 January 2011] [63] While welcoming the enactment
of special legislation to combat sexual exploitation and the adoption of a
five-year Plan of Action against Sexual Exploitation of Children (2000-2004)
and other related measures in this area, the Committee expresses its concern
at the widespread phenomena of child prostitution and the sale and
trafficking of children; the inadequate enforcement of the new legislation on
these issues; and the shortage of trained people and institutions to provide
rehabilitation to the victims. Testimony of Bopha US Department of State, Office to Monitor and Combat
Trafficking in Persons, “Trafficking in Persons Report”, June 14, 2004 –
Introduction: Victim Profiles www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/2004/34021.htm [accessed 26 January 2011] [scroll down] Bopha lived in a rural village and married
at 17. Her husband immediately took her to a hotel in another village and
left her. Bopha discovered the hotel was a brothel
and tried to escape, but she was forcibly detained and told she must pay off
the price the hotel owner had paid for her. Bopha's debt kept increasing due to
charges for her food, clothing, and other necessities. Bopha
could not leave. Ravaged by HIV/AIDS, she was thrown out on the street and
finally found her way to an NGO shelter in Human Trafficking On the Rise in Voice of America ®, Pnom Phen, 23 March 2009 Click [here]
to connect to the article. Its URL is
not displayed because of its length [accessed 26 January 2011] TRAFFICKING VICTIMS ARE ENSLAVED,
TORTURED -
Trafficking victims in Human trafficking: The faces and sorrow at the heart of a
UN report UN News Centre, 13 February 2009 www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=29907&Cr=&Cr1= [accessed 26 January 2011] Sokha was 14 when she was trafficked
across the border from Sokha was eventually saved by an
organization in Thailand that rescues girls from prostitution. Now she hopes
to set up her own sewing business and employ other girls trafficked as she
was. If This Isn’t Slavery, What Is? Nicholas D. Kristof, The New
York Times, January 3, 2009 [accessed 26 January 2011] Pross was 13 and hadn’t even had her
first period when a young woman kidnapped her and sold her to a brothel in Sex workers want legislation changed Australian Associated Press AAP, June 24, 2008 news.theage.com.au/national/sex-workers-want-legislation-changed-20080624-2vtp.html [accessed 26 January 2011] Sex workers have delivered a
letter to the Cambodian embassy in The new laws had simply moved sex
work underground, in an unsafe, unregulated environment, alliance president
Elena Jeffreys told AAP. "Hundreds of sex workers have also
been arrested, detained, and have faced violence and sexual assault in
detention. "Sex workers who are
HIV positive have been unable to access their medication, which is placing
their lives at risk." The
Cambodian government overlooked the distinction between sex work and
trafficking, Ms Jeffreys said. Marielle Sander-Lindstrom, Wall Street
Journal online.wsj.com/article/SB121321985362065761.html?mod=googlenews_wsj [accessed 26 January 2011] Not all bliss for take-away Cambodian brides Brian McCartan, www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/JD08Ae01.html [accessed 26 January 2011] The mechanics of the trade are
still murky. What is known is that women from mostly rural areas are brought
by brokers into the capital city of Phnom Penh and put on display for
prospective foreign grooms. The brokers are usually either informal operators
or connected to one of several matchmaking businesses, which until now
operated freely in Cambodia. Because the business apparently
lacks a coercive element - women are allowed to turn down a marriage offer -
it is not technically considered human trafficking. The business side of the
trade, however, is certainly exploitative. Potential grooms pay as much as
US$20,000 to brokers for their services, while the bride's family is given
$1,000 as well as money to cover the costs of the wedding. The broker and
agency divvy up the rest of the spoils. Putting the red light on human trafficking Thomasina Larkin, The search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20070929a1.html [accessed 26 January 2011] "Neary
grew up in rural "The owner of the house told
her she had been sold by her husband for $300 and that she was actually in a
brothel. For five years, Neary was raped by five to
seven men every day. In addition to brutal physical abuse, Neary was infected with HIV and contracted AIDS. "The brothel threw her out when she
became sick, and she eventually found her way to a local shelter. She died of
HIV/AIDS at the age of 23." Human trafficking helps spread HIV/AIDS in Asia: UN Ranga Sirilal,
Reuters, www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSL22325220070822 [accessed 26 January 2011] "Trafficking ... contributes
to the spread of HIV by significantly increasing the vulnerability of
trafficked persons to infection," said Caitlin Wiesen-Antin,
HIV/AIDS regional coordinator, Major human trafficking routes run
between Nepal and India and between Thailand and neighbors like Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar. Many of the
victims are young teenage girls who end up in prostitution. "The link between human trafficking
and HIV/AIDS has only been identified fairly recently," Wiesen-Antin told the International Congress on AIDS in
Asia and the Pacific. Eat To Live: Feeding Pol Pot's
children Julia Watson, Posted at EARTHtimes.org, ki-media.blogspot.com/2007/05/eat-to-live-feeding-pol-pots-children.html [accessed 1 September 2011 January 2011] On the manicured lawn between the Gustav Auer of Friends restaurant
is not surprised. He and others involved in non-governmental organizations
locally are waiting to see whether the adoption efforts of Madonna and
Angelina Jolie -- who visited Friends when she was
in Cambodia recently -- have a positive or an adverse effect. There is no such thing, says Auer, as a
legal adoption policy in Cambodia. It's all about the money. You pay enough,
you get the papers. "In my nine years here, I know of only one legal
adoption where there was no financial compensation." Sue Pleming, Reuters, www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2431986320070424 [accessed 26 January 2011] Lundy, who was in Xinhua News Agency, April 06, 2007 english.people.com.cn/200704/06/eng20070406_364388.html [accessed 26 January 2011] According to official reports,
over 180,000 migration laborers toiled irregularly in Thailand, while
hundreds or even thousands of Cambodians are exploited to work as sex slaves
in Malaysia, Japan, China's Taiwan and Hong Kong, Qatar, Somali, and Saudi Arabia. More co-operation needed in war on human trafficking At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 4 September 2011] Reviewing the human trafficking
trend in the region, While in the past women and
children have been reported as trafficked victims, Thatun
said that boys and men have also been identified as victims as well into the
sex trade, heavy labour, begging, marriage, and the fishing industry. In Viet Nam, Thu reported that
most of the 4,530 women and children were trafficked to China and Cambodia from 1998 for the purpose of
prostitution, arranged marriages or labour exploitation. Because of the cross-border nature of human
trafficking, Thu proposed that, under the AIPO framework, ASEAN parliaments
should establish a project on legal co-operation to fight against human
trafficking to be more successful in fighting the complex form of crime. Microsoft Uses Grants To Help Alleviate Human Trafficking Josephine Roque, All Headline News
AHN, Manila At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 4 September 2011] Microsoft Corp. has released
grants worth more than $1 million to six Asian countries to deal with human
trafficking by providing computer skills. Called the "Unlimited
Potential," the grants were distributed throughout: Cambodia, India,
Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. Review of a Decade of Research On Trafficking in Persons, Annuska DERKS, Roger HENKE, LY Vanna, Center for Advanced Study, The www.asiafoundation.org/pdf/CB_TIPreview.pdf [accessed 26 January 2011] The Review of a Decade of Research
on Trafficking in Persons, Cambodia, provides a comprehensive assessment of over 70 research
studies, highlighting what is and what is not known about human trafficking
in Human Trafficking Conference Calls for Action against
Corruption, Weak Law Enforcement Ron Corben, Voice of www.voanews.com/burmese/news/a-27-2006-05-22-voa4-93504959.html?moddate=2006-05-22 [accessed 26 January 2011] Ormond spoke of female victims she
met in www.vietnamembassy-usa.org/news/story.php?d=20060524145325 [accessed 26 January 2011] Under the campaign, part of
specific activities under an agreement signed between the two governments in
October 2005 regarding cooperation in eliminating human trafficking and
helping victims, The Cambodian side will define key
areas, suspects and rings engaged in trafficking Vietnamese women and
children. Xinhua News Agency, news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-05/07/content_4517342.htm [accessed 26 January 2011] Since the signing of the historic
COMMIT Memorandum of Understanding in Yangon, Myanmar in October 2004, by
Ministers of the six countries, the Governments have been active in laying
the foundation for a network of cooperation to stop traffickers and prosecute
them, protect victims of trafficking and assist them return safely home, and
launch efforts to prevent others from sharing the same fate. Khmer girls' trafficking ordeal Kylie Morris, BBC News, Thai-Cambodian border, 2 June,
2005 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4599709.stm [accessed 26 January 2011] LOOKING FOR CASH - She and her cousin were 16
years old when they decided, against their family's wishes, to travel to "At first I refused to have sex with men. Then I was beaten so badly I had to hide my face for a month, until it healed. Then I was told again I would have to sleep with the customers. I knew if I refused I would be beaten again. I had no choice but to agree." Cambodian police raid hotel, rescue three girls from sex
trade Mainichi Daily News ( thefuturegroup.blogspot.com/2005/09/cambodian-police-raid-hotel-rescue.html [accessed 26 January 2011] Police arrested two women - a
broker and a pimp during the raid. One
of the victims was 16 years old and was allegedly sold for US$1,000 by her
mother, who needed the money to survive.
The alleged broker had the girl's family registration card and
intended to show it to pimp and buyer to prove the girl is truly 16 years
old. Rebuilding Karoline Kemp, theTravelrag,
September 6, 2005 www.thetravelrag.com/docs/10112.asp [accessed 26 January 2011] Thyda looks like any other young girl –
only she’s lived through trauma most of us could never imagine. At the age of
12 she was told that she needed to make money in order to buy medicine for
her sick grandfather. Because she was considered to be very beautiful, her
mother sold her to a friend for $300. This woman then sold her to a
high-ranking Cambodian official for $800. She stayed with him for three hours
on that first night. Thyda was moved all over the
country, being resold over and over again. Cambodian police rescue 88 sex workers Australian Broadcasting Corporation ABC Radio At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 4 September 2011] Police in Comments about Cambodia’s Tier 3 status in Trafficking in
Persons Report H. E. Prum Sokha,
Secretary of State, Ministry of Interior, The www.humantrafficking.org/updates/29 [accessed 26 January 2011] H. E.
PRUM SOKHA, SECRETARY OF STATE, MINISTRY OF INTERIOR, The $50 Baby Annette Langer (with additional material from Reuters),
Spiegel Online International, 01/28/2005 www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,339105,00.html [accessed 26 January 2011] The parents' horrifying decision
to sell their one-month old is one that many couples in Cambodian Women 'Not Abducted' Guy De Launey, BBC News, news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4275943.stm [accessed 26 January 2011] The Cambodian government has
issued a report into the alleged kidnapping of dozens of sex workers from a
safe house in the capital Police Rescue Sex Slaves In South African Press Association SAPA, Agence
France-Presse AFP, www.iol.co.za/news/world/police-rescue-sex-slaves-in-cambodia-1.238046 [accessed 26 January 2011] Cambodian police rescued 18
Vietnamese women, aged between 18 and 23, allegedly forced to be sex workers
in a massage parlor. "Every
evening they were forced to have sex with guests, and each woman had to pay
half of the money she charged a guest to the owners," Sun Bunthong said.
"They were not allowed to go out the house. One 18-year-old woman who had violated the
order was stabbed with a knife twice in her back. Press Release: United Nations, 10 March 2005 www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0503/S00179.htm [accessed 26 January 2011] The prosecution rested on the
testimony of eight Cambodian women, who left their home village believing
they would be offered work as noodle and clothes sellers in Decisive sentence handed down in Cambodian sex trafficking
cases [PDF] PR Newswire, www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-127292055.html [partially accessed 1 September 2011 - access restricted] A
brothel keeper and a pimp were found guilty of exploiting three teenage girls
who were regularly drugged and beaten at the brothel and forced to have sex.
The girls were sold to the brothel keeper who forced them to work off the amount
for which they were purchased. Each
time they were drugged, the cost of the drugs would also be added to their
debt. Myth 1 - After the Brothel Nicholas D. Kristof, The New
York Times, Poipet www.oneangrygirl.net/brothel.html [accessed 26 January 2011] The traffickers who were supposed to get her and four
female friends jobs as dishwashers smuggled them
instead to Nicholas D. Kristof, The New
York Times, www.nytimes.com/2005/01/15/opinion/15kristof.html [accessed 26 January 2011] Police report describes the Chai Hour II as a case "of confinement of human beings for commercial sex" and adds that it is also "a place for trafficking/sale of virgin girls." Review: "Terrify No More" by Gary A. Haugen -- W
Publishing Group, Nonfiction, ISBN: 0849918383 Lisa Ann Cockrel www.bookreporter.com/reviews2/0849918383.asp [accessed 26 January 2011] This non-fiction narrative revolves around IJM's efforts to dismantle the notorious sex trade in the
Cambodian Sex Trafficking Growing In S.E.Asia Fayen Wong, Reuters, www.chinapost.com.tw/international/detail.asp?GRP=D&id=61645 [accessed 1 September 2011] Girls from the villages of Myanmar, Cambodia, Indonesia
and the Philippines are lured into cities or neighboring countries with promises
of lucrative jobs as waitresses and domestic helpers, only to end up in
massage parlors and karaoke bars.
Others are flown as far as The Modern Scourge of Sex Slavery Dr. Martin Brass, Soldier of Fortune Magazine, www.military.com/NewContent/0,13190,SOF_0904_Slavery1,00.html [accessed 26 January 2011] [photo
caption] Cambodian
policeman escorts 11-year-old Vietnamese girl from brothel in Toul Kork red-light district of
The Protection Project - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/cambodia.doc [Last accessed 2009] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - It has been estimated that at
least 200,000 to 225,000 women and children are trafficked from Within Cambodia, children are
trafficked for work in garment factories in Phnom Penh and Sihanoukville, for begging in Svay
Rieng along the border with Vietnam, or for
construction work, domestic work, or work as porters. Vietnamese girls are trafficked to
Cambodia, where they are supposedly prized for their fairer skin. In fact, aid workers say that most women
working in Cambodia’s sex industry are Vietnamese. Trafficking gangs lure Vietnamese women
with promises of jobs as waitresses or hostesses. For example, a trafficking
gang broken up in January 2003 in southern Vietnam was accused of trafficking
18 Vietnamese women to Cambodia for forced prostitution between June 2002 and
January 2003. The women had been promised legitimate jobs. Freedom House Country Report - Political Rights: 6 Civil Liberties: 5 Status: Not Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=22&year=2009&country=7579 [accessed 26 January 2011] Human Rights Overview by Human
Rights Watch – Defending Human Rights Worldwide [accessed 26 January 2011] Library of Congress Call Number DS554.3 .C34 1990 lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/khtoc.html [accessed 26 January 2011] [3] Leaving the Brothel Behind Nicholas D. Kristof, The New
York Times, Battambang 209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/1324343/posts [accessed 26 January 2011] A year ago, a pimp handed me a
quivering teenage girl. Her name was Srey Neth, and she was one of the hundreds of thousands of
teenagers who are enslaved by the sex trafficking industry worldwide. Then I did something dreadfully unjournalistic: I bought her. I purchased Srey
Neth for $150 and another teenager, Srey Mom, for $203, receiving receipts from the brothel
owners. As readers may remember, I then freed the girls and took them back to
their villages. Now I've come back to
find out how they coped with freedom. [2] Bargaining For Freedom Nicholas D. Kristof, The New
York Times, Poipet query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D01E1DD1239F932A15752C0A9629C8B63 [accessed 26 January 2011] Finally, Srey
Mom said goodbye to ''Mother,'' the owner who had enslaved her, cheated her and
perhaps even helped infect her with the AIDS virus -- yet who had also been
kind to her when she was homesick, and who had never forced her to have sex
when she was ill. It was a farewell of infinite complexity, yet real
tenderness. So now I have purchased the
freedom of two human beings so I can return them to their villages. But will
emancipation help them? Will their families and villages accept them? Or will
they, like some other girls rescued from sexual servitude, find freedom so
unsettling that they slink back to slavery in the brothels? We'll see. [1] Girls For Nicholas D. Kristof, The New
York Times, Poipet query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0DEEDF1639F934A25752C0A9629C8B63 [accessed 26 January 2011] Srey Neth
claimed to be 18 but looked several years younger. She insisted at first
(through my Khmer interpreter) that she was free and not controlled by the
guesthouse. But soon she told her real story: a female cousin had arranged
her sale and taken her to the guesthouse. Now she was sharing a room with
three other prostitutes, and they were all pimped to guests. ''I can walk around in Poipet, but only with a close relative of the owner,''
she said. ''They keep me under close watch.They do
not let me go out alone. They're afraid I would run away.'' Why not try to escape at night? ''They would get me back, and something bad
would happen. Maybe a beating. I heard that when a group of girls tried to
escape, they locked them in the rooms and beat them up.'' Elise Labott, State Department
Producer, Cable News Network CNN, December 14, 2004 www.cnn.com/2004/US/12/14/cambodia.us.sex/index.html [accessed 26 January 2011] Under Un's
direction, the Cambodian police rescued 84 women and young girls from a
brothel last week. But the next day, gunmen kidnapped them and seven others
from the shelter where they were taken after their rescue. Hitting Slavery Where It Hurts Quentin Hardy, Forbes, 01.12.04 www.forbes.com/global/2004/0112/055.html [accessed 26 January 2011] "Nothing compares to the
deadness in the eyes of a kid in a brothel," Haugen, 40, says. "In
Rwanda, the dead were already gone. In the brothels of Cambodia, they are the
living dead." They mapped a systematic, and
highly profitable, trade in innocents. Kids from remote rural areas are
promised work or treats in distant cities by slave dealers, who sell them to
brothels for up to $1,000. Sex with these kids costs $30 compared with $5 for
an adult prostitute in Cambodia.
"Our investigators came into Svay Pak,
and within ten minutes pimps came up saying 'Do you want small-small? I can
get small-small,'" says Sharon Cohn, the head of IJM's
antitrafficking unit. "It was
unbelievable--kids as young as 5." Children for NBC News, 1/9/2005 msnbc.msn.com/id/4038249/#slice-2 [accessed 26 January 2011] Dateline goes undercover with a
human rights group to expose sex trafficking in Hagar, an NGO, Helps Human Trafficking Victims in www.america.gov/st/washfile-english/2004/June/20040617114848HVnamrevliS0.1714899.html [accessed 26 January 2011] Tami believes the dramatic rise in
abductions and coerced sex slavery in "Cambodia was just coming out
of 30 years of war, with weak legislation and rampant corruption, so
organized crime thrived," Tami continued. "Poverty and lack of
education, particularly among the countryside, also contributed to the phenomenon."
Cambodia is among the poorest and least developed countries of the world,
according to the World Bank. Slavery Continues in the Form of Forced Prostitution Ed Vitagliano, News Editor for
American Family Association AFA Journal, Agape Press, April 15, 2004 www.crosswalk.com/1257639/page2/ [accessed 26 January 2011] Psychiatrist Wendy Freed authored a report for
Physicians for Human Rights. Her report on the psychological aspects of women
trapped in sexual slavery in Cambodia presented this frightening pattern
faced by thousands of girls and women: "The young women have been in
captivity for a period of weeks to months or years. Initially there is shock
and disbelief. Many young women describe not being able to believe that they
had been sold .... Once they realize that in fact they are sold, they fight
the brothel owner's demand that they accept customers. Refusal leads to
beatings, being locked in a room, and going without food. This persists until
the young woman gives up and realizes that indeed they are trapped and have
no options .... At some point in this process, the young woman becomes
submissive in order to avoid further beatings and torment; her 'spirit is
broken.' She surrenders, becomes resigned and accommodates to the
circumstances of captivity." Edgar, TakingITGlobal, Aug 16,
2002 www.tigweb.org/youth-media/panorama/article.html?ContentID=513 [accessed 26 January 2011] "These arrests violate every
principle regarding the appropriate treatment of apparent trafficking
victims," said Colm. "They should be provided
with medical and legal services, counseling, secure shelter, and given the
opportunity to cooperate in the investigation into the traffickers. It is
imperative that these girls get the services they need and deserve." The investigating judge on the
case told reporters that initial findings revealed that the girls were
trafficking victims, but that when the court learned the girls had entered
Cambodia without legal documentation, they were no longer considered victims,
but violators of Cambodian law for illegal entry into the country. Measuring the Number of Trafficked Women and Children in Thomas M. Steinfatt, Professor
of Communication, At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 4 September 2011] [page 25]
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS - Across Child trafficking takes new forms in Southeast Asia Rafael D. Frankel, Special to The Christian Science
Monitor, Battambang www.csmonitor.com/2001/1212/p7s2-woap.html [accessed 26 January 2011] When he was 12, his parents in
rural "The trafficker told my
parents he would send them $55 a month," the boy says. "But I would
earn $18 or $25 every day or night I begged." Over the next three years, the boy
escaped twice and made his way home. But the trafficker found him,
repurchased him, and took him back to Thailand. The second time, his parents sold
his younger brother as well. World Congress Against the Commercial Sexual Exploitation
of Children -- Feature 3: World Congress Against the Commercial Sexual Exploitation
of Children, August 27-31, 1996 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 4 September 2011] ARIS STORY - My family is poor and so my
mother pledged me for $500 to help feed my eight brothers and sisters. I am
the most beautiful, Ari says with pride. Most of
the money she makes goes directly into the pocket of a brothel owner, leaving
little to pay off the debt she now shoulders. How Ari
came into prostitution is a familiar story to the local organisations
researching child sexual exploitation. According to NGOs, the majority of
child sex workers are abducted by middlemen (or women), sold or pledged by
parents, relatives, neighbours or boyfriends, or
deceived with the promise of jobs or marriages. Often children are hired out
or sold by their families to agents who may or may not reveal the true nature
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