16 October 2007

Children for sale

“According to End Child Prostitution in Asian Tourism, children, sold by destitute parents or abducted by criminal syndicates, are currently being trafficked from Vietnam to Thailand, from Burma to the Pacific Rim countries, and from Nepal to India, where, in the brothels of Mumbai, the fair-skinned girls of Nepal are particularly prized. Some are no more than eight years old.”

– Caroline Moorehead, from Women and Children for Sale, The New York Review of Books, 11 October 2007

[ECPAT website; Combating The Trafficking in Children for Sexual Purposes Q&A PDF]

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