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An Update on Don't! Buy! Thai!
December 20, 2000
Here is a copy of the D!B!T! web page that details the world-wide problem of Child Sex Tourism. Links to articles on that page are no longer active.
Please see:
Serial Sex Offender Surfaces in Cambodia
ScrippsNews - May 13, 2009
Child sex trade soars in Cambodia, Aljazeera.net - October 22, 2008
U.S. cop on Cambodia child sex charge kills self
Reuters - October 30, 2006
Cambodia's Child Sex Crackdown, Time - October 5, 2006
Child-Sex Trade Thriving in Cambodia, Maclean's Magazine - November 24, 2003
British Sex Tourists Turn Killing Fields of Cambodia Into Paedophiles' Playground, The Independent - January 5, 2003
And, RESOURCES: Child Sex Tourism, for more articles detailing the situation over time.
| It's Not Just Thailand
No question but that Thailand is the center of the child-sex tourism industry. Or, to quote ECPAT, Thailand is "the major importer, exporter and transit country in the international trafficking sex trade."
However, the Thai government is not the sole perpetrator of this crime--there are other governments which allow their children to be raped for profit. Click on the connections below to learn more.
Professor Gets 105 Years for Importing Boy for Sex
Computer Scientist Faked Birth Certificate for Victim
May 26, 2000
World Congress Against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children
In the words of the General Rapporteur, Professor Vitit Muntarbhorn of Thailand, "there can be no more delusions" -- no-one can deny that the problem of children being sold for sex exists, here and now, in almost every country in the world.
Travel Industry Is Shamefully Silent About Child-Sex Tourism
Child sex tourism. It's travel's dirty little secret. Few will talk about it. Almost no one does anything about it.
Knight Ridder News Service, Sunday, October 10, 1999
Foreigners buy Egyptian girls for short-term marriages
A government study says only one of 200 marriages with foreigners lasts more than a few months.
Swiss Group Admits Abuse of Orphans
Ready the Associated Press article from July 22, 1999
Check out the web site: Captive Daughters and find out more about how it is not just Thailand anymore. Great links and articles!
By email at: captive@cloud9.net
URL: http://www.captive.org/
"Governments should do more to strengthen laws prohibiting sex tourism and exploitation of children, including offering protection to all children under 18, a UNICEF report said Friday." Read the entire January 22, 1999 article here.
Sri Lanka's President Chandrika Kumaratunga has established the Child Protection Authority to combat child sex tourism in his country. Or maybe just to combat bad press about the country's child sex tourism. Only time will tell. Read the article by the Associated Press NY December 13, 1998
Chris Ahamefule Iheduru, 45, testified Tuesday that it's not illegal in his native Nigeria to have sex with a juvenile and that he didn't know it was illegal here.
Read the article by the Associated Press NY October 07, 1998
Rape is spreading AIDS to young children in Africa. The trend is fueled by unscrupulous 'healers' who suggest that having sex with a virgin can cure the disease.
Read the artice by the Los Angeles
Times dated August 16, 1998.
A link to Children and Prostitution
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Please see, RESOURCES: Child Sex Tourism, for articles detailing the situation over time.
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