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Prostitution in Cambodia is illegal, but prevalent. A 2008 Cambodian Law on Suppression of Human Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation [ 1 ] has proven controversial, with international concerns regarding human rights abuses resulting from it, such as outlined in the 2010 Human Rights Watch report.
The Somaly Mam Foundation (SMF) attracted the support of U.S. business leaders and Hollywood stars. SMF was the global fundraising arm of Somaly Mam's Phnom Penh-based AFESIP. [15] After the May 2014 Newsweek article questioning Mam's claims, the Somaly Mam Foundation undertook its own investigation by Goodwin Procter, a Boston-based law firm ...
The Redlight Children Campaign was inspired by Guy Jacobson's personal experiences backpacking in Cambodia in 2002. While traveling in Phnom Penh, a group of young girls, some only five years old, began to aggressively solicit him for prostitution. Although he refused several times, they revealed to him that they would be beaten by the brothel ...
In 2006, Cambodia was a source, transit, and destination country for human trafficking. The traffickers were reportedly organized crime syndicates, parents, relatives, friends, intimate partners, and neighbors. [1] Cambodia ratified the 2000 UN TIP Protocol in July 2007. [2]
Svay Pak is located eleven or twelve kilometres (6.8 or 7.5 mi) north of the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, [5] [6] in the district of Russey Keo, [7] at coordinates As of December 2021, the urban commune had a square footage of 5.675 square kilometres (2.191 sq mi); [2] in January 2003, Svay Pak had a diameter of 150 metres (490 ft).
In 2004, the organization, Gender and Development for Cambodia, stated that 6% of the female workforce in Cambodia is paid. [7] According to a World Bank report [citation needed] labor force participation for women in Cambodia is lower than that of their male counterparts, with 69.9% of women working and 82.1% of men working.
Violence against women in Cambodia is a serious issue. Cambodia has had a history of violence against women especially due to its past conflicts. [1] During the Pol Pot regime, women were exposed to several different violent acts against them such as forced marriages [2] and rape by the Khmer Rouge officials in Cambodia and refugee camps in Thailand. [3]
The Cambodian jungle girl is a Vietnamese [1] woman who emerged from the jungle in Ratanakiri province, Cambodia on January 13, 2007. A family in a nearby village claimed that the woman was their daughter Rochom P'ngieng (born 1981) who had disappeared 18 or 19 years previously; the story was covered in most media as one of a feral child who lived in the jungle for most of her life. [2]