Today dawns a new day rising from a comfy bed for so many of us. For upwards of 27 million of our fellow citizens around this same world we share, the door to their lives looks much different. Read Full Post ». Posted in Human Trafficking , sex trafficking , sexual abuse , tagged America , sex trafficking , sexual abuse , Vanity Fair on September 6, Leave a Comment ». The names of all victims and their relatives have been changed. Quotes from Dennis Paris, Gwen, and Alicia are taken from court testimony.
I have none of my irreplaceable things from my youth. Rhonnie Jaus, forensic pediatrician Dr. Sharon Cooper, ex-streetwalker Louise, and Judge Curtissa Cofield have all simultaneously and independently noted the same disturbing phenomenon. There are more young American girls entering the commercial sex industry—an estimated , at this moment—and their ages have been dropping drastically. The explanations offered for these downwardly expanding demographics are various, and not at all mutually exclusive.
Krishna Patel, assistant U. Read more of the Vanity Fair article. Posted in Asia , crimes against children , Human Trafficking , sexual abuse , tagged cambodia , sex trafficking , sex workers , sexual abuse on April 6, Leave a Comment ». Oddly a foreign man older than 50 is prohibited from marrying even Cambodian women of their age or older. Lonesome and indigent foreign women might take heart to note another discrepancy: they are still allowed to marry Cambodian men. This is not the first time the government has imposed a marriage ban between foreign men and Cambodian women.
Reports about South Korean men taking brides from Cambodia and other South-East Asian countries by means of human-trafficking rings—which essentially had enslaved the women they styled as wives—prompted the government to ban foreign marriages temporarily in Last year that ban was reinstated, though only as it applies to South Korean men.
But rights groups say the new ban is an ineffective—and potentially illegal—solution to ongoing concerns about the welfare of Cambodian women. And the salary floor, which the foreign ministry says is intended to guarantee Cambodian women a decent standard of living, prevents the vast majority of foreigners working here—including university teachers, NGO staff and journalists—from tying the knot with local women, unless they do so overseas. Even in the capital, Phnom Penh, where housing and merchandise is relatively costly, a monthly salary of several hundred dollars buys what is considered a middle-class existence.
