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  • Child trafficking and prostitution in Cambodia.Bar "Walkabout" in Phnom Penh is one of the bars where young and many times underaged prostitutes go to pick up foreign clients. The bar also offers rooms for its customers on the upper floor.
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  • Mother and child at a slam behind "the building", a run-down apartment block occupied by squatters. Many young girls that grow up in poverty in that slam are easily drown in to prostitution before they reach adulthood, either in the brothels situated in "the building" or they pick up their clients in bars and at the river-front of Phnom Penh. Cambodia
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  • People living in a slam behind "the building", a run-down apartment block occupied by squatters. Many young girls that grow up in poverty in that slam are easily drown in to prostitution before they reach adulthood, either in the brothels situated in "the building" or they pick up their clients in bars and at the river-front of Phnom Penh. Cambodia
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  • 16 year old girl crying (middle) after her mother (R) invited me to photograph her in her room that she also uses to receive customers as a prostitute. The room is in a slam behind "the building", a run-down appartment block occupied by squatters. When she was 13 she was raped by a Khmer man and a bit after that she started taking customers as a prostitute. Virginity is still considered very important for a Cambodian woman, making it very difficult for her to get married to a Khmer man after loosing it. One year ago she also started taking crystal meth, a drug that is comonly used by prostitutes in Phnom Penh because it helps them stay awake the nights they go to bars to pick up foreign customers. The drug also makes her look deranged and over-emotional. .On the left, a neigbor woman that also works part time as a prostitute.
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  • Son Rathany (14) (R) and Rous Mach (15) (L) who are both working as prostitutes, in the room where they sleep and sometimes bring clients, in a slam behind the "building" in Phnom Penh. They both started working as prostitutes about half a year ago. Son after her family broke up and Rous after being tricked to start going to bars by a divorced female friend of hers. They take 1-2 clients a night. Rous goes mainly to "Martini Pub" a bar where foreign men go to pick up prostitutes. Son looks very young so it is more difficult for her to go in the bars but she refused to say how she finds customers.
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  • French guy (left) with a young prostitute, siting at the riverfront of Phnom Penh. The riverfront if a place where many Cambodians go for an evening out but also prostitutes look for customers and vice-versa.
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  • Kanha Thy (22) together with her 3 years old son, in the room that she shares with 5 more people in a slam behind the "building". She grew up in the slum and when she was 14, her mother was sick and bleeding (possible because a miscarriage) and a neighbor taught her in to selling her virginity to a foreigner for 150 US$ so that she can buy medicine to help her. From the $150 she had to give him $50 for helping her. Since then she started working as a prostitute, going to bars to pick up foreign customers. To make herself look older she had to wear make-up and high hills and this way she could enter the bars with no problems. She got married when she was 19 but her husband doesn't make much money out of collecting scrub so she still works as a prostitute and continues even now that she is expecting her second child, by hiding her belly under layers of cloths.
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  • Karaoke bar in Phnom Penh. Karraoke bars, most times serve as a front for brothels often with underaged prostitutes.
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  • boat-bars that every night cruse Tonle Sap river along Phnom Penh. Many prostitutes meet clients in those bars
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  • 12 year old girl that is working as a prostitute at a brothel in "the building", a run-down appartment block occupied by squatters. (face digitaly blured)
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  • Karaoke bar in Phnom Penh. Karraoke bars, most times serve as a front for brothels often with underaged prostitutes.
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  • Rady arriving at her outside their home in a remote location outside Sisophon city while her step-mother Jan Cum Saang is closing the gate of the piece of land where they live behind her.
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  • Rady with her step-mother Jan Cum Saang, her brother Yort (7) (L) and her younger brother Heir (4) (R) outside their home in a remote location outside Sisophon city.
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  • Rady (18) at a rehabilitation center of an NGO that deals with raped and sexually trafficked children. Rady was born in a refugee camp in Thailand and grew up with her father and her step mother together with their 6 other children. When she was around 14 her family returned to Cambodia to live in very pure conditions in villages in Kompong Thom and Banteay Meanchey provinces. When she was 15 and a half she was working in a bakery shop to help her family but the shop closed and she was left without a job. Poverty in combination with her father's alcoholism and her step-mother's gambling, created many conflicts between them and Rady and that made her feel unwanted. She then decided to leave secretly for Phnom Penh where she was planning to meet one aunt who she was hoping could help her find a job. On arrival in Phnom Penh, she discovered that she had lost her aunt's phone number and she started searching for her with the help of a moto-taxi driver. She couldn't find her and after spending a night with the driver's family she went to the river-front where as she was wandering by herself a Moslem woman approached her and offered to help her find a job. Rady followed her and the woman sold her to a brothel that was at "the building", a run-down appartment block occupied by squatters. At that time Rady didn't even know what a brothel was. There Rady's virginity was sold to a Japanese man. After that Rady stayed at the brothel for one and a half month but she wouldn't receive any more clients because she became sick and was constantly vomiting. The owner of the brothel didn't want to let her go because she had payed money to buy her, but eventually she did when Rady asked for help form a visiting NGO person who was distributing condoms there. Rady spent 2 years at that NGO and when she left to go back to her family, the NGO helped her start her own business by providing her with a machine with which she could produce juice from sugarcane. The business went well until she
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  • Rady 's half brothers Yort (7) (R) and Heir (4) (L) on their bed, inside their home in a remote location outside Sisophon city.
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  • Street in Sway Pa village. Sway Pa is a Vietnamese village 11 Km away from Phnom Penh that used to openly be a center of sex trafficking, especialy of underaged girls, even children. One year ago the police cracked down on the brothels but NGO people and journalists who recently visited undercover, found out that underaged girls are still be available on request. Rummors say that the place never stoped functioning but went undercover as many other similar places that the police tried to close down.
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  • Rady (18) at a rehabilitation center of an NGO that deals with raped and sexually trafficked children. Rady was born in a refugee camp in Thailand and grew up with her father and her step mother together with their 6 other children. When she was around 14 her family returned to Cambodia to live in very pure conditions in villages in Kompong Thom and Banteay Meanchey provinces. When she was 15 and a half she was working in a bakery shop to help her family but the shop closed and she was left without a job. Poverty in combination with her father's alcoholism and her step-mother's gambling, created many conflicts between them and Rady and that made her feel unwanted. She then decided to leave secretly for Phnom Penh where she was planning to meet one aunt who she was hoping could help her find a job. On arrival in Phnom Penh, she discovered that she had lost her aunt's phone number and she started searching for her with the help of a moto-taxi driver. She couldn't find her and after spending a night with the driver's family she went to the river-front where as she was wandering by herself a Moslem woman approached her and offered to help her find a job. Rady followed her and the woman sold her to a brothel that was at "the building", a run-down appartment block occupied by squatters. At that time Rady didn't even know what a brothel was. There Rady's virginity was sold to a Japanese man. After that Rady stayed at the brothel for one and a half month but she wouldn't receive any more clients because she became sick and was constantly vomiting. The owner of the brothel didn't want to let her go because she had payed money to buy her, but eventually she did when Rady asked for help form a visiting NGO person who was distributing condoms there. Rady spent 2 years at that NGO and when she left to go back to her family, the NGO helped her start her own business by providing her with a machine with which she could produce juice from sugarcane. The business went well until she
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  • Rady ariving at her home in a remote location outside Sisophon city.
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  • Rady's step-mother Jan Cum Saang (37) hiding her crying face when she is asked to tell what she thinks of Rady's story. She is very sorry that their relationship was bad and because of it Rady run away and she is now affraid of her other younger daughter that is vaunerable as she also has to work to help her family. She lives with her family in very poor conditions, in a wooden hut outside Sisophon town.
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  • Vat Sarom (16) in a rehabilitation center of an NGO that deals with raped and sexually trafficked children. About one and a half year ago Sarom was living in a village bordering Thailand with her family. Her father had just had an accident stepping on a mine and her mother was pregnant, when a trafficker offered to help her get a job as a waitress at a restaurant in Siem Reap. She left her village and on the way the trafficker lied to her and instead brought her to Banteay Manchey province where she made her stay in a hotel, promising her that after that they would go to Siem Reap. There the woman trafficker sold her virginity to a man and forced her to stay with an other man for 3 nights. After that, instead of bringing her to Siem Reap, she sold her to a brothel at the village Sasda on the Thai border. There Sarom was locked in and forced to take 8-10 customers every night. To keep her awake and cheerful, the brother owner gave her drugs. These made her not wanting to eat or sleep and she was feeling happy without thinking any more. She was taking the drug every 3 days with the money she made of her tips. There were 14 girls in the brothel but only she and one more girl were underaged. She was afraid to escape because the owner of the brothel belonged to the military police and when some girls managed to escape, they were quickly caught and badly beaten when they were brought back. Eventually she managed to contact a relative of hers by borrowing a phone from a client and this way the operation for her rescuing started. On March 2007 and after she had spent 8 months in the brothel, the combination of a court decision, police pressure and the efforts of the NGO made the brothel owner release her. .Since then she is in the rehabilitation center, happy to be rescued but also very sad that all this happened, blaming herself for following the trafficker. She is trying to forget but she can not and instead she escapes in to her music, any music that she can hear from he
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  • Street children at the riverfront nof Phnom Penh. The 3 of them with Pov (12) (front in blue) as their leader are looking either for gay customers whom they can offer to follow to their hotel rooms or straight customers for whom they can find girls of any age.
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  • Children in Sway Pa village. Sway Pa is a Vietnamese village 11 Km away from Phnom Penh that used to openly be a center of sex trafficking, especialy of underaged girls, even children. One year ago the police cracked down on the brothels but NGO people and journalists who recently visited undercover, found out that underaged girls are still be available on request. Rummors say that the place never stoped functioning but went undercover as many other similar places that the police tried to close down.
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  • Rady (18) (on the right) at a rehabilitation center of an NGO that deals with raped and sexually trafficked children, during a psychological support class. The NGO that is run by christian Cambodians, is trying to help the girls by using the Bible to teach them how to live life and go through the problems they face.
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  • Building that used to be a brothel in Sway Pa village. Sway Pa is a Vietnamese village 11 Km away from Phnom Penh that used to openly be a center of sex trafficking, especialy of underaged girls, even children. One year ago the police cracked down on the brothels but NGO people and journalists who recently visited undercover, found out that underaged girls are still be available on request. Rummors say that the place never stoped functioning but went undercover as many other similar places that the police tried to close down.
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  • School-kids passing in front of an Anti-Pedophiliac advertisement in the outskirts of Poipek town, near the border with Thailand.
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  • Vat Sarom (16) in a rehabilitation center of an NGO that deals with raped and sexually trafficked children. About one and a half year ago Sarom was living in a village bordering Thailand with her family. Her father had just had an accident stepping on a mine and her mother was pregnant, when a trafficker offered to help her get a job as a waitress at a restaurant in Siem Reap. She left her village and on the way the trafficker lied to her and instead brought her to Banteay Manchey province where she made her stay in a hotel, promising her that after that they would go to Siem Reap. There the woman trafficker sold her virginity to a man and forced her to stay with an other man for 3 nights. After that, instead of bringing her to Siem Reap, she sold her to a brothel at the village Sasda on the Thai border. There Sarom was locked in and forced to take 8-10 customers every night. To keep her awake and cheerful, the brother owner gave her drugs. These made her not wanting to eat or sleep and she was feeling happy without thinking any more. She was taking the drug every 3 days with the money she made of her tips. There were 14 girls in the brothel but only she and one more girl were underaged. She was afraid to escape because the owner of the brothel belonged to the military police and when some girls managed to escape, they were quickly caught and badly beaten when they were brought back. Eventually she managed to contact a relative of hers by borrowing a phone from a client and this way the operation for her rescuing started. On March 2007 and after she had spent 8 months in the brothel, the combination of a court decision, police pressure and the efforts of the NGO made the brothel owner release her. .Since then she is in the rehabilitation center, happy to be rescued but also very sad that all this happened, blaming herself for following the trafficker. She is trying to forget but she can not and instead she escapes in to her music, any music that she can hear from he
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  • Rady 's half brothers Yort (7) (L) and Heir (4) (R) inside their home in a remote location outside Sisophon city.
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  • Street children by Tonle Sap river in Phnom Penh. The river-front is a place where many Cambodians go for a night out but also street children hung out. They sleep there do part time jobs like selling books to foreigners or begging and often get picked up by traffickers or pedophiles.
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  • Street in Phnom Penh. The extreme poverty of Cambodia contrusted by expensive cars on its streets that often belong to corrupted government officials.
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  • Many signs on the national road that connects Phnom Penh and Battambang to Sieam Reap and the border with Thailand, campaign against the use of guns
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  • Shanghai Bar: Hostes bar in Phnom Penh.
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  • Girl at riverfront of Tonle Sap river in Phnom Penh. The river-front is a place where many Cambodians go for a night out but also street children hung out. They sleep there do part time jobs like selling books to foreigners or begging and often get picked up by traffickers or pedophiles.
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  • French middle-aged man with young prostitute he just picked up on the riverfront, on a boat-bar that every night cruses Tonle Sap river along Phnom Penh.
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