Child Sex Trafficking in Southeast Asia

Sadly, sexual activity of children in Southeast Asia today is shocking. According to the Borjen project, the World Health Organization estimates that Thailand currently has 2 million sex workers, of which 80% are women under the age of 18. One-third of prostitution's victims are children (human trafficking). The victims of sex trade are mostly children and minority women. "Ethnic minorities and women and girls in the northern mountainous tribe are particularly vulnerable because of lack of citizenship" (trafficking in person).

Trafficking is the fastest growing company in organized crime and is the third largest criminal company in the world. Most sex trading is international and is a victim of South and Southeast Asia, the former Soviet Union, Latin America, and other low development areas and has moved to more developed areas including Asia, Middle East, Western Europe and North America I will. Https: //leb.fbi.gov/2011/march/human-sex-trafficking The imbalance in the number of women involved in trafficking is not only victims but also traffickers http: // www. Unodc.org/documents/human-trafficking/ Executive_summary_english.pdf Surprisingly, women are the largest proportion of traffickers in countries that offer 30% of gender information on traffickers. In some parts of the world, women selling women are becoming commonplace http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/human-trafficking/global-report-on-trafficking-in-persons. html

Southeast Asia is the world's largest trade center for women and children, accounting for one-third of global trafficking in trafficking. Southeast Asia is also the source of the greatest human trafficking to the United States and 60% of international sources trafficked in Southeast Asia in the United States. Supplying countries include Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Nepal, Philippines, Cambodia, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka. Most of the victims of human trafficking from Southeast Asia are involved in compulsory prostitution, but there are cases of forced domestic labor as well. The main social determinant of sex trade in Southeast Asia is poverty and many women promise to have the opportunity to earn money for their families. In addition, poverty is also linked to other social factors such as lack of formal education and low level status. Another important social determinant of trafficking in sex from Southeast Asia is the low value of women and girls.

Trafficking in Southeast Asia has been a problem in this area for a long time and it is still spreading today. As the economy continues to grow, the labor demand of the industrial sector and the sex tourism department has been observed to reach the highest ever in history. Mixture of poor people and desire for more wealth created an environment for traffickers to benefit in Southeast Asia. Many countries in this region are taking precautions to terminate trafficking in their territory and to punish the traffickers operating there.