Oh Just Some More Info

I keep reading news articles and keep hearing the same stories over and over again about poverty, forced prostitution, and pedophiles. Here is just a few more random facts that I have not yet come across in all of my research:

·        As the Cambodian government cracks down on the sex trade, it forces the sex trade to go underground. The people involved have to more inconspicuous when they are operating their brothels. They can’t be as open about it on the streets, but by far, it hasn’t stopped prostitution and trafficking.

·        Also, they have gone out from the cities into the more rural provinces where anti-trafficking systems are not yet set up. Cambodia can’t afford to cover the rural areas, so much of their anti-trafficking movement is targeting cities like Phnom Penh and Sihanoukville.

·        The Dominican Republic, Bosnia and Guatemala are alternate places where sex tourists are likely to go instead of Cambodia because they have less restrictions and it is easier to get away with it.  

·        The government is marketing its anti-trafficking stance across the country. They have posters at airports, and message boards. These are supposed to serve as warning to sex tourists. Some have slogans like: “Turn a sex tourist into an ex-tourist” or “Abuse a child in this country, go to jail in yours.”

The article I read was: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1543174,00.html

 

Sign on the road leading into Cambodia from Thailand: Absoutely against Child Sex

I got the photo from:  http://japanfocus.org/products/details/2687

~ by shainalent on March 24, 2008.