Human trafficking is being tackled by many agenciesFriday, 6 April 2007
By Guy Delauney
BBC News, Phnom Penh
The Cambodian government has launched the country's first national task force to combat human trafficking.
Thousands of people are trafficked in or through the south-east Asian nation every year.
The new task force will bring together government ministries, law enforcement groups and international agencies.
Cambodia has hundreds of different anti-trafficking organisations, and reducing duplication of effort will be one of the task force's main goals.
Clearer picture
Anti-trafficking is a fashionable cause, and donors have poured untold millions of dollars into efforts to help victims and punish traffickers.
But in Cambodia at least, that eagerness to help has also been the cause of consternation.
There are so many organisations operating here that it can be difficult to measure the success of anti-trafficking efforts, and many of them are competing for donor funding, muddying the waters still further.
The new task force hopes to co-ordinate efforts and get a clearer picture of what is actually going on.
"The problem up until now has been that we have about 200 organisations at least, and international organisations and government ministries," said Mariel Sander Linstrom of the Asia Foundation, who is the technical adviser to the task force.
She said that probably more than 5,000 people were all over Cambodia trying to stop trafficking, but they were not speaking to each other or following the same systems or standards.
Improving law enforcement is another goal. In the past, police efforts to arrest traffickers have been undermined by courts failing to prosecute suspects or throwing out cases.
Despite the problems, there are signs that Cambodia is making some progress.
Last year, the United States elevated the country from the lowest level on its human trafficking watch list.
Thousands of people are trafficked in or through the south-east Asian nation every year.
The new task force will bring together government ministries, law enforcement groups and international agencies.
Cambodia has hundreds of different anti-trafficking organisations, and reducing duplication of effort will be one of the task force's main goals.
Clearer picture
Anti-trafficking is a fashionable cause, and donors have poured untold millions of dollars into efforts to help victims and punish traffickers.
But in Cambodia at least, that eagerness to help has also been the cause of consternation.
There are so many organisations operating here that it can be difficult to measure the success of anti-trafficking efforts, and many of them are competing for donor funding, muddying the waters still further.
The new task force hopes to co-ordinate efforts and get a clearer picture of what is actually going on.
"The problem up until now has been that we have about 200 organisations at least, and international organisations and government ministries," said Mariel Sander Linstrom of the Asia Foundation, who is the technical adviser to the task force.
She said that probably more than 5,000 people were all over Cambodia trying to stop trafficking, but they were not speaking to each other or following the same systems or standards.
Improving law enforcement is another goal. In the past, police efforts to arrest traffickers have been undermined by courts failing to prosecute suspects or throwing out cases.
Despite the problems, there are signs that Cambodia is making some progress.
Last year, the United States elevated the country from the lowest level on its human trafficking watch list.
13 comments:
lol how are you going to crack down on sex trades when police chief Hok Lundy is the head of the brothel trade.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4geLOEzH_6Y
Of course if you want to stop it just arrest Hoc Lundi, Moc Chito and Hun Sen and the rest of the group, who are the leadders of those traffics, including drug, Human crimes....
I saw on the TV, the pimps all spoke yuon. Of course, the biigest yuon whorehouse is Hok Lundi.
It won't be finished there. Futile exercise.
I wondered how many people in HUMAN TRAFFICKING COMBAT TASK FORCE 80 pay visits to PHNOM PENH's MIAMI RED LIGHT DISTRICT.
Oh my god on youtube they say some westerner have sex with an 8 years old girl. This is beyond my imagination on how such men do this. Very sad to see it.
Well, once those westerners are
bored from the overpromoted normal
sex in the west, they want
something different. Is that hard
to understand?
9:49 AM the western also want your sister too. fagged.
Which one do they want? I have a
7 years old, a 10, and a 23.
yeap...look at those yellow pale legs...they are all VIET whores...
When it comes to the VIET whores, history doesn't lie: just ask the FRENCH and the AMERICANS - They will tell you all about it!!!
What changes is when they all know the true colors of the VIET! That's when HO CHI MINH's dreams becomes just daydreams!!!
That is Ah Khmer-Yuons, you idiots,
They don't have them (Low-Lifes) in
Hanoi. Moreover, that is why
Hanoi have to take over the south.
Who in their right mind would want
their country to be a whore's
house?
Your mother is a Viet whore...and you are pretending to be khmer dumb arse - is that it? You are one dumb arse son of a Viet whore..Man!
Nope, that is Ah Khmer-Yuon loser's
department. We (Khmers) don't care
for your minority bussiness.
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