The Article ' Child Trafficking Thailand : Prevention And Prosecution Challenges `` By Ross Michael Pink

Nothing drives emotions out the window more than hearing about innocent children being used for sex. In Cambodia, sex trafficking has grown into a troublesome issue. Sex trafficking has become one of the fastest growing crimes occurring internationally. It is the third largest crime-business in the world, after drugs and arms trafficking. Women, girls, and even men and boys are victims of the billion-dollar sex trafficking industry. Sex trafficking occurs everywhere, and it is not culturally specific, but a gender specific issue. There are numerous cases of sex trafficking within Cambodia, however child sex trafficking is extremely captivating and distressing to learn about.

“ She was just seventeen when she got into prostitution- child trafficking- but she didn’t know she was a victim at the time. She had been beaten and raped by her father since she was twelve years old.” (Zhai Yun, 1.) Young victims of youth sex trafficking are not just kidnapped by unknown people into this. It can be by their father, mother, brother, or sister. It can be forced upon them by people who have come into their life claiming they can make it better. When in reality it just makes it worse. They have no idea what they are getting into and what is going to happen to them. They are fed with lies and false pretentions of what is going to happen. They are caught in a trap that is hard to get out of. Often they are to scared to try to run or be rescued. They just do what they are told so that they live or so their loved ones live.

Women and children who are being sexually exploited are often found in the urban areas of Thailand, but even rural areas have a share of commercial sex workers (Lau, June 2008). The Thai society is extremely male dominated as men are considered superior to women and hold the government and societal power (Vejar & Quach, May 2013). Foreign investors have a great deal of power in Thailand as the country has become more dependent tourism and manufacturing rather than the traditional small farm economy (Geary & Meyer, June 1993).

Each year, “600,000 to 800,000 people are trafficked across international borders;” half of those people are children (“11 Facts”). Human trafficking is a criminal act and violates human rights; it is especially devastating to children. Countless innocent children and families are impacted by Child Trafficking

Around the world children are being exploited daily through a variety of disturbing practices. The United States of America is the land of the free, the home of the brave, and the number one producer of Child Pornography in the world. (1 Kutcher) It is a frightening statistic. Child sex trafficking is the second most lucrative crime business around the world. It is second only to the business of narcotics trafficking. (3 The CNN Freedom Project) Education on the topic is crucial in order to develop a local, as well as a global, solution in the fight to save children from this heinous act upon their innocence. It is necessary to understand how children get introduced and pulled into this way of life, ways the children are exploited, and what's being done to stop these horrific crimes against the children.

“Thailand? Why would you take students to Thailand?” was the question posed when Florencio Ricohermoso, Middle School Math Teacher at Leland and Gray, first proposed leading a student trip to the exotic destination in Southeast Asia.

Human trafficking is prevalent throughout the world, especially in Asia and more specifically in China but the government and non-governmental organizations (NGO) are taking measures to put an end to it. Human trafficking involves exploitation of human beings; either sexually or by coercing them to work in unfavourable conditions for little pay or nothing at all. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) defines human trafficking as “the acquisition of people by improper means such as force, fraud or deception, with the aim of exploiting them.” Women and children, especially girls between the ages of fourteen and twenty constitute the majority of victims of human trafficking. “China is a source, transit and destination country

When one thinks of human trafficking, they more often than not think of forced sex by women. On the other hand, there is labor trafficking, another branch of human trafficking, which is actually in more demand. Victims are taken for all sorts of labor such as domestic services, factory work, and sweat shops. Many of these people being taken for prostitution and servitude are poor and malnourished, making them an easy target. By providing free services to help these victims, one is allowing education to be equally spread to the people who need it, not only to those who can afford it. According to Michelle Simon in the article “5 Prevailing causes of Human Trafficking” (2012) “Traffickers look for people who are susceptible to coercion into the human trafficking industry. Those people tend to be migrants, fleeing their homes either because of economic hardship, natural disasters, conflict or political instability. The displacement of populations increases individuals’ emotional vulnerability, and frequently they do not have the financial support to protect themselves.” (para.5). This further explains how this theory of being poverty-stricken directly ties to a cause of human trafficking. This in turn means that the asian people will be assisted by having this

Northeast Asia consists of _______ countries, therefore, for the purpose of this assignment, the group has identified three countries such as China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan as a case from which to illustrate the current realities of the baby and child trafficking situation in Northeast Asia. This is especially given the strong economic connections and historical animosity between them. In addition, China and Japan are specially chosen because as a rising power in the Asia-Pacific, its approach to security and economics has the wide-ranging impact on other states in the region, and as such, highly coveted generalizations can be made insofar as this characteristic is expressed. While South Korea and Taiwan was chosen based on security issue

In a small village consumed by poverty a man in a business suit shows up. He goes from family to family offering to buy children for a year’s worth of pay. He gets to one family with a young girl whose father sells her to feed his addiction for heroine. Scared and confused the girl is now forced into a brothel, sexually pleasing more than 20 men a day. Nearly five years later she is rescued only to lose her life to AIDS from unprotected sex. The human trafficking industry in Thailand has long been overlooked both internally and externally. Corruption, greed, foreign relations, economic pressure, and overall demand have fueled the trafficking industry in Thailand. Until the world and the Thai government make serious changes to the way they

Today, Human Trafficking is one the world’s leading criminal empires, and has globally been in existence since the beginning of time. The horrendous Human trafficking industry is extremely prosperous and profitable in South East Asia. The industry’s prosperity in the region is not because there have been no laws to curb it. On the contrary, several laws have been put in place to stunt the rampancy of trafficking. However, they have been ineffective because they are mostly directed towards the effect and do not address the root of the problem. It must be noted that because there is not a single effective solution, a multidisciplinary approach, that simultaneously punishes perpetrators, provides for rescued victims and also aims to eliminate

Imagine a four year old girl growing up in contemporary Cambodia. Each morning she wakes up miles from home, homesick and scared. She is forced to beg for money for the brothel that she belongs to, and all of her earnings go straight to her master. Then, that night, about seven men come to the brothel. These men, some as old as fifty, often pay as little as two dollars to partake in sexual intercourse with these school-aged children. The toddlers enslaved in the horrific sex trade are forever stripped of their purity, making human trafficking a major issue in present day Cambodia. Over 30,000 children are sexually exploited annually (“Children for Sale”), and millions have been forced into human trafficking

Wang stated that there is an inseparably link between trafficking and prostitution because the goal of human trafficking normally makes the victims themselves involved into prostitution (Wang 2005: 4). Not just prostitution, but human trafficking has also led these victims into the forced labor or services, slavery, and removing of organs for others. The victims who are being targeted into trafficking are most likely women and young children, but sometimes men and boys are also targeted in some cases too (Shim 2013: 6). The victims of women and girls are viewed as more vulnerable than men in trafficking because of the inequality of gender and economic power. In between the year 2005 and 2009, CEOP reports indicated that “approximately 6,000 women and children were identified as being trafficked from Vietnam” (CEOP 2011: 4). In 2010, “the report identified 58 children potentially trafficked from Vietnam to the UK over the 12 month period of the study” (CEOP 2011: 3). Due to safety issue, the demand of human trafficking for young virgins and children in prostitution has been increasing because of the factors such as the threat of HIV/AIDS. From the Human Trafficking in Vietnam research, it has identified that there are also newborn babies and children

Every year, Thailand experiences high rates of human trafficking from its rural parts and from its the neighboring countries in the Greater Mekong Sub-region. Sex trafficking is not just described as the trade in humans for sexual slavery but also consists of forced marriages or even martyr organ donors. Trafficking is often seen through the hue of sexual slavery and it is critical to understand the social, political and economic reasons that contribute to the growth of human trafficking in Thailand. Since the Vietnam War, sex trafficking has been on a constant rise due to foreign troops being the very first clients to sex workers, there has been a perception of Thailand as a sought of after destination for

“The global market of child trafficking is at over $12 billion a year with over 2 million child victims” (“Stop Child Trafficking Now” 1). This statement from the article “Stop Child Trafficking Now” describes how serious this crisis is nationwide. Child labor, illegal adoptions and child prostitution are the three forms child trafficking typically exists as (“Riverkids Project” 1). There has been a rising number of Cambodian children being trafficked for sexual exploitation and forced labor because of poverty, unemployment and lack of education; however organizations such as the Coordinated Mekong Ministerial Initiative Against Trafficking (COMMIT) are trying to raise awareness of this crisis.