Stop the Traffick (18/22)
This is also part of this series: City Life Series (22)
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Subjects:
Child Abuse, Child Labour, Children's Rights, Global Issues, Globalization, History, Human Rights, Poverty, Sociology, Southeast Asian Studies, War |
Grade Level: SrH-Adult
Producer: Bullfrog Films
Closed Captioned: No |
Running Time: 27 mins
Country of Origin: Great Britain
Study Guide: No |
Copyright Date: 2001
Available in French: No
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Thirty years of war has left Cambodia ravaged and poverty-stricken. Since the end of the brutal Khmer Rouge rule, poverty, corruption and global tourism have combined to make it particularly vulnerable to the child labour industry. Children as young as ten years old are trafficked into cities from rural areas to become sex workers or trafficked out to comparatively wealthy Thailand to work as beggars, domestic labourers, or labourers on construction sites. Most of the sex workers are girls, although some of the boys on the streets are working as prostitutes too. With seventy percent of the Cambodian population living in rural areas, international trafficking gangs target poor rural families, often striking when times are hardest. |
Links: http://www.lifeonline.org/archve/citylife20main.htmlwww.tve.org/life - the producer’s site