IJM: Significant decrease of children in Cambodia's sex industry

[geovalin]

WASHINGTON, DC - A new prevalence study conducted by International Justice Mission (IJM) reveals that Cambodia—once "ground zero" for the unrestrained commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC)—has experienced a significant decrease in the prevalence of minors available in commercial sex establishments in three of the largest commercial sex markets in the nation. In the early 2000's, estimates of the prevalence of CSEC in Cambodia ranged from 15%-30%. Today, thanks to international attention and investment, along with a strong commitment by Cambodian government officials, prevalence of minors in the commercial sex trade in Phnom Penh, Siem Reap and Sihanoukville has dropped to 2.2% with minors 15 years and younger making up just 0.1% of the sex industry.

read more: http://www.eturbonews.com/59971/ijm-significant-decrease-children-cambodias-sex-industry

[ggt]

Filming foreigner customers buying children for sex...then exposing them to the press in their home country...has gone a long way to reduce this exploitation of children...

Keep up the good work...how does Thailand stack up on the child sex trade?

[meinanzi]

The IJM is a Christian organization that has an agenda that often hurts the very people they purport to help.

In their Chaing Mai raid on the Pink Lady brothel, the Mother Jones magazine reports the "rescued" women were held against their will in an orphanage:

"In the days following the Pink Lady raid, the rescued women and girls were locked into two rooms of an orphanage by Public Welfare authorities, and many of them hardly seemed relieved. While some told of having been promised waitressing jobs and then being forced into the brothel, others had chosen to work there, and several complained that they had not yet been ready to leave. "We need to make money for our families," one woman cried. "How can you do this to us?"

During the one hour each day when they were allowed outside the building, four girls soon slipped out the front gate and disappeared. A few nights later, 11 of them strung together sheets, shimmied down the second-floor window of the orphanage, and climbed over a concrete and wire fence. Nine more ran away weeks later. During one of the escape attempts, a woman fell from a second-story window and was hospitalized with back injuries."

..."Within one month following the raid, a total of 24 girls and women had run away from being saved."

..."You won't find these complications featured in IJM's literature, or in the group's media appearances."

[arrowsdawdle]

Filming foreigner customers buying children for sex...then exposing them to the press in their home country...has gone a long way to reduce this exploitation of children...

Keep up the good work...how does Thailand stack up on the child sex trade?

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[biggles45]

It must be nice to be able to pull stats out of the air to show what a great job you are doing and pull in millions more in donations. This IJM have a poor track record in Philippines as well. They 'rescue' these girls, all,of who are paid a wage to work in the bar and can leave anytime they want to. Then the cops put them in jail after a raid until the bar bosses pay money, meanwhile the girls and their families have no income, Virtually no under-age girls are usually found, and those who are have ID issued by the local authorities....no one jails the authorities.