The south-eastern Cambodian province has been a focal point for trafficking of very young children and elderly. Cambodian Red Cross trafficking project manager, Sun Kanha, meets a Red Cross client who decided to keep two children she had by different men who raped her.
Men Neary Sopheak, deputy secretary general of the Cambodian Red Cross and its former director of communications. The Cambodian Red Cross is determined to intensify its advocacy against human trafficking and sexual exploitation as well as its own programme response, according to Men Neary Sopheak, CRC deputy secretary general.
A ground-breaking three-year project, supported by the Danish Red Cross, one of the most experienced National Societies in this field, is shortly marking the first anniversary of its launch in July A national anti-trafficking task force was set up and the police launched operations against traffickers and brothels. Cambodia had been relegated to the lowest tier in Sometimes all three. After he got sick and too weak to work, he was simply fired.
One of the main trafficking hot spots has long been the north-west province of Banteay Meancheay, on the border with Thailand, and the town of Poipet in particular, where the CRC held the first of four regional workshops on trafficking in Many are victims of rape and domestic violence. CRC project manager, Sun Kanha, recently met a Red Cross client who had decided to keep two children she had by different men who raped her. The woman and her children have been taken in by neighbours.
On 4 June about sex workers gathered in a meeting room in Phnom Penh to protest against the police operations and said they had been beaten and sexually abused in custody. But it seems reasonable to believe the country has as good a chance as any in the region of tackling sexual exploitation in a humane way β especially with the Cambodian Red Cross fully involved.
