Links We Like

MTV Asia has a series of hardhitting documentaries on human trafficking. Excellent introduction! EXIT

A Cambodian family's long path to reconciliation (IHT)

James Pond's blog for his post-trafficking shelter, Transitions, in Cambodia has a great entry right now about why poverty doesn't drive trafficking.

Positive Deviance is not a new webcomic, but a strategy to prevent trafficking by figuring out why families don't sell their kids. Applied in Indonesia, we're using some of these strategies and hope to find more.

Why prosecuting sex abuse in Cambodia is so tough

A clear and detailed report (June 2006) on the legal and proceedural problems of prosecuting child abuse in Cambodia. Part of it is that the law is unclear on several points, then there’s corruption, training to handle sex cases and the huge, huge social shame. Then I think about when I was a kid and to even mention sex abuse as a problem was a huge scandal. Now it’s a recognized tragedy, and the victims have a voice. So I’m hopeful, especially when there are people like Action Pour Les Enfants and Licadho working.

PDF file, about 500KB. Highly recommended.

Cambodia: A Poster Child for Modern-Day Slavery

It's shocking to realize. This small, round-cheeked 14-year-old in the pale, pink sleeveless top (we will call her An, though her real name must be withheld to protect her privacy) could be a poster child for modern-day slavery.

Sold by her aunt and brutally raped by a sex predator, An’s experience parallels that of the approximately 2 million children in the world today enslaved in the global sex trade.

Read more about An and other kids like her

Other good articles:

Kalliyan on Her Life as a Victim of the Illegal Sex Industry — and Her Recovery

For Cambodian girls, education is antidote to poverty and sexual exploitation