Showing posts with label Sale of children for prostitution. Show all posts
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Sunday, April 29, 2012

Review: Nefarious

April 28, 2012
Written by Tiffany Owens
World Magazine

Benjamin Nolot’s award-winning documentary, Nefarious: Merchant of Souls, chronicles the filmmaker’s journey around the world as he investigated international sex trafficking of women and children.

Debuting on DVD May 1, the film follows Nolot and his team as they travel through Europe, Thailand, Cambodia, and the United States. At each stop, they uncover a different aspect of the modern-day sex slave trade.

Nefarious reveals tragic facts about sex trafficking: Many trafficked women and children originate from Eastern Europe and Thailand, often in an effort to escape poverty. Once lured into sex trafficking—either kidnapped or through false promises of work—they are physically and mentally abused and forced to work for manipulative, money-hungry men. Crippling socioeconomic systems and corrupt politics make escape virtually impossible. Once captured into trafficking, many are lucky to survive seven years.

The film also looks at the peculiarities of trafficking unique to each country. When Nolot visited Cambodia, he focused on the deeply ingrained sense of duty that many women have to provide for their family. Sadly, many believe prostitution is their only option: Young girls are prepared from an early age to work as prostitutes. It is common for Cambodian parents to sell their daughters into prostitution in exchange for money, fancy gadgets, and the luxury of not having to work.

Saturday, March 24, 2012

Part Six: From poverty to social pariah

Twelve-year-old child at the Trauma Recovery Centre in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. This girl is among the children at the centre who have been sexually abused. Most of the abusers are local men, but some of the children (not the girl pictured) have been the victims of so-called sex tourists. (Photograph by: Sopheak Kong , World Vision)
Svay Pak children watching cartoons at The Sanctuary. (Photograph by: Courtesy Brian McConaghy, Ratanak International)
A twelve-year-old girl with recovery worker at the Trauma Recovery Centre in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. (Photograph by: Sopheak Kong, World Vision)
Girls are educated at the Trauma Recovery Centre in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. These girls are among the children at the centre who have been sexually abused. Most of the abusers are local men, but some of the children (not those pictured) have been the victims of so-called sex tourists. (Photograph by: Sopheak Kong, World Vision)
Girls at the Trauma Recovery Centre in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. These girls are among the children at the centre who have been sexually abused. Most of the abusers are local men, but some of the children (not those pictured) have been the victims of so-called sex tourists. (Photograph by: Sopheak Kong, World Vision)

Prostitutes have few chances for other employment or for ever getting married


March 23, 2012
By Daphne Bramham
Vancouver Sun

Phnom Penh, Cambodia


Sreylin is tiny. Her dangling flip-flops barely touch the floor even though she’s sitting on the edge of her chair.

She has a classic Khmer face, like the enigmatic Buddhas at Angkor Wat. But she’s dressed in jeans and a black Calvin Klein T-shirt with rhinestones. Her thick, black hair is pulled back in a ponytail.

Sreylin is 16 with only a Grade 4 education. She was rescued by police from the commercial sex trade in 2010. She got there by selling her virginity for $200.

Everything I have done, I have done for my family to help improve their living conditions,” she says, softly. “I just wanted to help them.”

Sunday, November 20, 2011

Si vous pouvez lire cet article sans verser de larmes, vous ne seriez plus humain! Quelle HONTE pour le Cambodge!!!

Un monde sans pitié

L'éditorial de Richard Cannavo
Le Nouvel Obs
"Au Cambodge, il est bein connu que la virginité est un commerce." - Un officier de police
Vendues encore enfants, comme de simples marchandises, maltraitées; violées, nombre de petites Cambodgiennes finissent dans des bordels avant de mourir du sida.

J'ai vendu ma virginité 500 dollars à un vieil homme, pour aider ma famille : c'était la seule chose de valeur que nous possédions. » Au Cambodge, les femmes n'ont pas vraiment voix au chapitre, et les adolescentes moins encore. Innocentes, ignorantes, les plus pauvres d'entre elles sont arrachées à leur paisible campagne par un parent, un ami, un voisin sous de fausses promesses d'une vie meilleure, certaines sont droguées et kidnappées avant d'être vendues. «La personne qui m'a trahie était un ami. Je devais travailler dans un restaurant pour 145 dollars par mois. Et j'ai été violée...» Elle est encore comme hébétée : «J'ai appelé au secours mais personne n'est venu. J'avais été vendue. Le client pouvait faire ce qu'il voulait de moi. » Parfois le malheur provient de leur propre mère : « J'étais endettée et je cherchais à survivre. J'ai dû vendre ma fille pour 300 dollars. Maintenant j'ai de la peine pour elle... » Les très jeunes filles sont une marchandise comme une autre, dans ce pays où la virginité est un bien recherché parce que doté de vertus magiques. « Les hommes pensent que s'ils ont des rapports sexuels avec une vierge leur peau blanchira, qu'ils rajeuniront et prolongeront leur vie. » «La police et la population en général n'ont aucune notion de ce qu'est la pédophilie. Il n'existe même pas de mot, en khmer, pour désigner ce phénomène !», déplore le responsable d'une ONG. «Au Cambodge, il n'y a pas d'égalité entre les sexes, explique une vieille femme. On dit que si un homme se conduit mal, il peut s'en laver et il redevient propre. En revanche, les femmes sont comme du tissu blanc : si elles font quelque chose de mal, le tissu sera sale pour le restant de leur vie... » Ainsi, une jeune fille ayant perdu sa virginité attire le déshonneur sur toute sa famille, et devient une paria.

Tuesday, September 02, 2008

Cambodia: The Virginity Trade (trailer)


Harrowing and intimate interviews from all sides of the virginity trade that exists in Cambodia today. Produced and Directed by Matthew Watson for Zealot Films.