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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early years of the 21st Century 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. Joining on Somaly Mam’s Brothel Bust Nicholas Kristof, The
New York Times, November 12, 2011 kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/12/joining-on-somaly-mams-brothel-bust/ [accessed 13 November 2011] The other reaction
that people sometimes have is resignation, the sense that forced prostitution
is as inevitable as it is evil. On the contrary, I’m struck every time I
visit Human Trafficking On the Rise in Cambodia 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/content/a-13-2006-05-22-voa9/324966.html [accessed 28 August 2012] Ormond spoke of
female victims she met in vietnamembassy-usa.org/news/2006/05/vietnam-cambodia-crack-down-cross-border-human-trafficking [accessed 20 April 2012] 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 [accessed 28 August 2012] 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/report/freedom-world/2009/cambodia [accessed 26 June 2012] 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. 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 [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 of the work. All
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