Friday, October 16, 2015

Human trafficking in Cambodia

Cambodia is transit country for victims from neighboring countries such as Thailand and Vietnam. There are many causes of human trafficking in Cambodia and has increased because of a number of factors, including lack of unemployment, education, safe migration, increased tourism and poverty. Poverty being the most significant of trafficking.

Men are trafficked for forced labor in the agriculture, fishing and construction industries. ( I met a man about 2 months ago. He is one of the victims who were escaped from a fishing boat in Thailand. He said that I paid some money to a man who promised that he could get me to work in a factory in Thailand and I would get paid around $300 to $400 a month. He traveled to Thailand through a boat and when he arrived the place he was ask to get on a fishing boat to go out to the sea. He had only a few hours only to sleep everyday and worked like that for about 3 years and he never get any money. He always stayed on the boat so he had no chance to escape from the boat. One day the owner of the boat had party and all workers were landed back and join the party and on that night it's a good chance for him to talked with a few other friends who were working with and they decided to escaped. There are five of them were trying to escape but himself by chance was cut by a sword from the guard and other friends were rescued him. They traveled back to Cambodia and had to begged people for money in order to traveled back to homeland.)

Women are trafficked for sexual exploitation and forced labor in factories or as domestic servants. Children are trafficked for sexual exploitation and forced labor in organize begging rings, soliciting, street vending and flower selling.

This video is telling you about a girl who sold by her mother to get money.


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