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A Ukrainian woman trafficked to Brussels reported having 20 men per day buy her. (Lily Hyde, “Ukraine: Film Warns Of Forcible Prostitution Abroad from,” RFE/RL)

In 1996, in Serbia a Ukrainian woman, who tried to escape prostitution, was beheaded in public. (Michael Specter, “Traffickers’ New Cargo: Naive Slavic Women,” New York Times)

Policy and Law Ukraine has adopted a law making trafficking and forcing someone into prostitution punishable by up to 15 years in prison. (Radio Liberty Prague Czech Republic, “Ukraine Cracks Down on Sexual Slavery,” RFE/RL Newsline, Vol2, No71, Part2)

The governments of Poland and Ukraine agreed on July 16, 1998, to cooperate in fighting prostitution and sex slave trafficking to the West. “The Mafia has got engaged in [the trafficking of women]. We must take preventive measures together,” a Ukrainian Interior Ministry representative commented on the agreement. (“Poland, Ukraine to fight sex slave industry,” Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Newsline, Vol. 2, No. 136 Part II)

The governments of Poland and Ukraine agreed on July 16, 1998, to cooperate in fighting prostitution and sex slave trafficking to the West. “The Mafia has got engaged in [the trafficking of women]. We must take preventive measures together,” a Ukrainian Interior Ministry representative commented on the agreement. (“Poland, Ukraine to fight sex slave industry,” Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Newsline, Vol. 2, No. 136 Part II)

5% of prostitutes in Vietnam are children, which means that 20,000 children are in prostitution in Vietnam. This rose from 11% in 1991. (Christian Science Monitor)

There are 70,000 prostitutes in Vietnam – an old figure that seems far too low given the increasing number of new karaoke bars, massage parlors and discos known for prostitution. (government statistics Keith B. Richburg, “The Go-Go Dancers Haven’t Gone,” The Washington Post)

One third of 55,000 prostitutes in Cambodia are under 18 and most are Vietnamese. (World Human Rights Organization and UNICEF, “Vietnam Child Sex Trade Rising,” Associated Press)

Ukraine is currently one of the largest exporters of women to the international sex industry. (“Ukraine Film Warns of Forcible Prostitution Abroad,” Russia Today)

More than 100,000 Ukrainian women, many of them minors, have been trapped and enslaved as prostitutes in the West. (International Organization for Migration, Piotr Bazylko “Poland, Ukraine to fight sex slave industry” Reuters, 16 July 1998)

1,000 Ukrainian women are in prostitution in Poland. (Piotr Bazylko “Poland, Ukraine to fight sex slave industry,” Reuters)

Ukrainian women constitute the largest ethnic group of foreign women in Turkey’s sex industry. (“Ukraine Film Warns of Forcible Prostitution Abroad,” Russia Today)

18 women were rescued by police in a raid of the Baan Nok Pirab (Pigeons’ House) brothel in Ban Pong district in Ratchaburi province. One woman had been a slave there for 12 years. Sod Seusa-nga, 42, the manager of the brothel, was arrested on charges of prostitution and illegal detention. (“Police rescue 18 women to end prostitution ring,” The Nation)

Two Pattaya policemen have been arrested for running an operation that sold under-age boys to prostitution tourists and planted drugs on other boys in order to blackmail them. Another officer has been charged with running a brothel and kidnapping a 15-year-old girl for prostitution. (Mark Baker, “Sin city can¹t shake vice¹s grip,” Sydney Morning Herald)

A 25-year-old woman, named Ploywilai, was enslaved in a brothel for 12 years. After she was rescued in a raid, she told police she ran away from home at the age of 13 to stay with her boyfriend in Mahachai, Samut Sakhon province. After her boyfriend was arrested for using marijuana, a man lured her into prostitution in a brothel in Mahachai. After staying there for about two months, she was sold to the brothel in Ratchaburi. ”I was at Baan Nok Pirab for 12 years and they never let me go out. I wanted to go home but escape seemed impossible,” she said. Ploywilai said she wrote to her mother to seek police help and asked a brothel visitor to be her messenger. (“Police rescue 18 women to end prostitution ring,” The Nation)

In northern Thailand villages girls as young as five are fitted with copper collars weighing ten pounds. The number of collars are increased, stretching the neck, until the girl becomes 25. When the women speak they are barely audible. Women are vulnerable to men who will kill them if they take off the collars. (Halima Embarek Warzazi, expert from Morocco, “Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of MinoritiesAddresses Harmful Traditional Practices Affecting Health of Women and Girls,” DPI-Releases)

Women from Burma¹s Karenni tribe kidnapped by a Thai businessman are being exhibited as a tourist attraction at a human zoo in Northern Thailand. From the age of five, the women wrap heavy copper coils around their necks to elongate them. Their necks eventually become so long and weak that they cannot support their heads without the coils. In some tribes the coils are removed to punish women who have committed adultery. (“ŒAmazing Thailand¹ offers human zoo,” BBC World)

Victims of trafficking from other nations are easily deceived or lured because they face poverty, unemployment, broken families and unstable governments in their own countries. (Sirinya Wattanasukchai, “Flesh trade shrugs off new risks,” The Nation)

Girls in China are kidnapped and trafficked through Burma to Thailand. In one kidnapping scheme in the central Thai provinces, an agent photographed village girls on their way to school; showed the photos to a brothel keeper who ordered the girls he wanted. The agent returned and kidnaped the chosen girl. (CATW – Asia Pacific, Trafficking in Women and Prostitution in the Asia Pacific)

Fewer girls from Northern Thailand have entered the sex industry in the past few years. As their numbers decline they are replaced by women and girls from Burma and southern China. (Kritaya Archavanitkul, Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidol University, The Passage of Women in Neighbouring Countries Into the Sex Trade in Thailand, “Academic urges action in war against flesh trade,” Yindee Lertcharoenchok, Mukdawan Sakboon, The Nation)

“Floating brothels” are a booming business off the coast of Quemoy, Taiwan, just out of the reach of the Coast Guard. Men wade into the water and board the fishing boats, about 165 feet off shore from the island of Quemoy. (“Floating Brothels Popular in Taiwan,” Associated Press)

There are 60,000 female child prostitutes aged 12 – 17 in Taiwan. Most of these are sold into prostitution by their parents. (Chi Hui-jung, Deputy Director, Garden of Hope)

There are 30,000 minors in prostitution in Taiwan. (Government’s estimation)

40% of young prostitutes in the main red-light district are aboriginal girls. (CATW – Asia Pacific, Trafficking in Women and Prostitution in the Asia Pacific)

An 18-year-old woman, who thought she was going to pick oranges, was trafficked to Cyprus, then Turkey where she was put in a brothel, raped, drugged and prostituted. She was forced to undergo two abortions, which left her unable to have children. (Vladmir Isachenkov,”Soviet Women Slavery Flourishes,” Associated Press, )

A 12-year-old girl, found on the street in Saratov by police, said she was in prostitution to raise enough money to buy a Barbie doll. (Lt. Andrei Demikhov, Alessandra Stanley, “Russian Cities Weigh Legalization of Prostitution,” )

A recent study showed that prostitution is high on the list of “professions” that modern Russian schoolgirls dream of pursuing. With no other options for survival, women increasingly resort to prostitution. Nadia, a Siberian woman was divorced, and with no other economic opportunities resorted to prostitution. She said it was humiliating, but she didn’t have a choice. (Helen Womack, “Street life – I’m a prostitute. I have no choice so I lose no self respect,” The Independent)

Approximately 500 prostitutes, called “night-time butterflies, were are on Tverskaya Street, in Moscow each night. (Interior Minister Anatoly Kulikov, Maura Reynolds, “Moscow Plans Prostitute Zone,” Associated Press)

There are more than 80 escort services operating in Saratov, Russia. (Alessandra Stanley, “Russian Cities Weigh Legalization of Prostitution,” )

Criminal groups make an estimated $7 billion annually by trafficking in women from Russian and other former Soviet Republics (Gillian Caldwell, Global Survival Network, Reuters)

Four Chinese women suspected of being prostitutes were arrested by the Manila Police in a karaoke bar. The club manager however, was not arrested. One of the arresting officers is accused of raping one of the apprehended women. These arrests brought the number to 23 Chinese women found to be working as prostitutes in Manila clubs alone. (Dona Z. Pazzibugan, “4 More Chinese Girsl Arrested in Karaoke Bars,” Phillippine Daily Inquirer)

The number of prostituted persons in the Philippines is about the size of the country’s manufacturing workforce, according to Rene Ofreneo, a former Philippine labor undersecretary and an expert on the sex trade. (Dario Agnote, “Sex trade key part of S.E. Asian economies, study says,” Kyodo News)

There are 400,000 to 500,000 prostituted persons in the Philippines. Prostituted persons are mainly adult women, but there are also male, transvestite and child prostitutes, both girls and boys. (International Labor Organization. Dario Agnote, “Sex trade key part of S.E. Asian economies, study says,” Kyodo News)

In the Philippines, a recent study showed there are about 75,000 children, who were forced into prostitution due to poverty. (Dario Agnote, “Sex trade key part of S.E. Asian economies, study says,” Kyodo News)

There are 400,000 women in prostitution in 1998, excluding unregistered, seasonal prostitutes, overseas entertainers and victims of external trafficking. One fourth of them are children and each year 3,266 more children are forced into the sex industry. (GABRIELA, Diana Mendoza, “RP Has 400,000 Prostitutes,” TODAY)

There are 375,000 women and children in prostitution in the Philippines. Most of them, aged 15 – 20, are from semi-rural and urban backgrounds and have been victims of incest and sexual abuse. (“375,000 Filipino Women and Kids Are Into Prostitution,” Philippine Daily Inquirer, 26 July 1997)

There are 300,000 women and children in prostitution in the Philippines. (Gabriela, Statistics and the State of the Philippines) There are more than 60,000 children in prostitution. (Welfare officials estimates, Abby Tan, “Sex Case Focuses Concern On Domestic Paedophilia,” 21 March 1997)

40,000 Filipino children were involved in child prostitution. (Philippine Foreign Ministry, Jill Serjeant, “Asia to launch joint crackdown on child sex trade,” Reuters)

There are reports of people prostituting for food or water. (CATW – Asia Pacific, Trafficking in Women and Prostitution in the Asia Pacific)

Most of the men buying prostitutes in Pasay City are taxi drivers, laborers, businessmen, foreigners and male teenagers’ eager to lose their virginity. (Joel San Juan, “Poverty still behind world’s oldest profession,” TODAY, 26 July 1998)

In Cebu, the number of registered prostitutes increased from 1,557 in 1992, to 2,189 in June 1994, to 2.988 in June 1996. This number does not include the estimated 1.500 non-registered prostitutes. (Gabriela, Statistics and the State of the Philippines, 24 July 1997)

In Cebu City, the number of registered prostitutes rose from 1,500 in 1993 to 4,500 in 1997. In Davao City in 1993, there were 80 prostitution establishments, by 1997 there were 135, which increased the number of registered prostitutes by 2,000 and the number of unregistered by 2,000. (GABRIELA, Diana Mendoza, “RP Has 400,000 Prostitutes,” TODAY)

In Davao, there were 868 prostitutes in 1993 and 1,525 in the first half of 1996. (Gabriela, Statistics and the State of the Philippines)

Of 500 prostitutes in Angeles City, 75% are children. (Sol. F. Juvida, “Philippines – Children: Scourge of Child Prostitution,” IPS)

The Philippines is fourth among 9 nations with the most children in prostitution, with 60,000 – 100,000. The top five areas for child prostitution and sex tourism are Metro Manila, Angeles City, Puerto Galera in Mindoro Province, Davao and Cebu(UNICEF and non-governmental organizations, Sol. F. Juvida, “Philippines – Children: Scourge of Child Prostitution,” IPS)

40,000 Filipino children are in prostitution. (Philippines Foreign Minister, Domingo Siazon, Robin Cook, “Clampdown on child sex tourism,” BBC News UK)

75% of the estimated 500 prostitutes in the “Area,” a ghetto known for child prostitution in Angeles City are children. (Susan Pineda, of Pro-Women Action, “Scourge of Child Prostitution,” Sol. F. Juvida, InterPress Service)

Filipinos are the main users of Filipinas in prostitution. (Women’s Education, Development, Productivity and Research Organisation, “Scourge of Child Prostitution,” Sol. F. Juvida, InterPress Service)

Filipino men who buy prostitutes don’t care if she is 15 or 25. (“Scourge of Child Prostitution,” Sol. F. Juvida, InterPress Service)

In 1984, there were 7 provinces with child sex rings. Today, they are present in 37 provinces. (UNICEF, Sol. F. Juvida, “Philippines – Children: Scourge of Child Prostitution,” IPS)

Children, aged 11 to 15, in prostitution said relatives introduced them to prostitution, or they were recruited by friends. (Institute for the Protection of Children, Sol. F. Juvida, “Philippines – Children: Scourge of Child Prostitution,” IPS)

The increase in the exploitation of prostituted children is attributed to the fear of HIV/AIDS. Some people believe children have less risk of having the disease. The sex trade in chidlren is so well established, because of the influx of sex tourists and the existence of sex tours catering to Japanese, European and other Caucasian tourists. (Sol. F. Juvida, “Philippines – Children: Scourge of Child Prostitution,” IPS, 12 October 1997)

Prostitution and sex trafficking are pervasive in the countryside. According to a study made by various non-governmental organizations led by the Women’s Education, Development, Productivity and Research Organization (WEDPRO), even remote rural areas are becoming favorite sites for sex traffickers and prostitution syndicates. Certain areas in Laoag, General Santos City, Negros, Southern Tagalog provinces, Pinatubo area, and Pagadian, to name a few, have reported increasing numbers of cases of prostitution, and where prostituted women are no longer from other provinces, but are local women. (“Ex-streetwalkers fight VFA: Form advocacy groups in urban centers,” The Philippine Journal)

Teen-age girls are being forced into prostitution due to the Asian economic crisis. In Davao City, the Philippines, there are more than 1,000 prostituted teen-age girls; customers pay as little as from 50 cents to $2.50. This rise in prostitution increases the spread of AIDS, especially as contraceptive costs have gone up with the currency collapse and bankrupt government cuts in distribution programs.( Tambayan Center for Abused Street Girls, “Asians in unhealthy crisis Financial woes produce ill effects on depressed region’s poverty-stricken,” Washington Times)

Sharon, a 13-year-old girl was kidnapped and sold as a virgin for US$30. In a brothel, she was raped by 8 to 15 men every night, even when she had her menstrual period or was running a fever, and by the time she escaped with a customer’s help in February 1997, she had ’serviced’ more than 1,500 men. (“Scourge of Child Prostitution,” Sol. F. Juvida, InterPress Service)

Former Congressman Manolet Lavides, promised 30 dollars, for sexual favors, to four 15 year old girls – enough for a new pair of shoes one of the girls said she needed. (Sol. F. Juvida, “Philippines – Children: Scourge of Child Prostitution,” IPS)

Korean police have been cracking down on prostitution in Texas Village, Seoul. According to estimates by police, about 1,000 women were engaged in prostitution in Texas Village, but the figure has been reduced to 200. (Kim Song-ae, ” ŒTexas Village¹ may become residential area,” Korean Herald)

Sixteen sex shop owners from the Texas Village red-light district of Seoul were arrested and 78 others apprehended without physical detention. (Kim Song-ae, ” ŒTexas Village¹ may become residential area,” Korean Herald)

There are 60,000-70,000 Filipina dancers in Japan; a third are undocumented. (Virginia Calvez, a director at the POEA manpower registry division, Roli Ng, “Feature: Filipina dancers keep swinging despite yen,” Reuters)

Philippine women are vulnerable to trafficking due to the Asian economic crisis. Requests for entertainer visas for Japan did not decline in the first six months of 1998. Travel to Japan increased 21% in the first half of this year compared with the same period in 1997. The label “entertainer” sometimes implies “sex worker.” The women are vulnerable in Japan, not because they lack skills, but because they are young, beautiful women in a hazardous or vulnerable occupation. Trafficking laws exists but are not enforced. (Supalak Ganjanakhundee, “Migrant workers booming as Asian economy declines,” Kyodo News)

32 foreign women called the Japanese National Police for help in 1997, triple the number in 1996. Four calls for help came in 1994, eight in 1995, nine in 1996. The women were trafficked under false pretenses and forced into prostitution Of the 32 cases in 1997, 15 women were from Taiwan, 6 from Cambodia, 2 from Hong Kong, 2 from Thailand and 2 from Cost Rica. (Japan¹s National Police Agency, “Forced prostitutes climb in Japan,” UPI)

Some 80% of Asian female migrant workers who legally entered Japan in the 1990s were “entertainers,” a euphemism for those engaged in the booming sex industry. (International Labor Organization, Elif Kaban, “UN labour body urges recognition of sex industry,” Reuters)

There are more than 150,000 foreign women in prostitution in Japan; more than half are Filipinas and 40% are Thai. (CATW-Asia Pacific, Newsletter Volume 1.2)

Sri Lankan women are lured under false pretenses to Japan, and then disappear. (CATW – Asia Pacific, Trafficking in Women and Prostitution in the Asia Pacific)

Japan is a destination of trafficked women from Ukraine and Russia. (Global Survival Network, Vladmir Isachenkov, “Soviet Women Slavery Flourishes,” Associated Press)

There are over 10,00 women in prostitution in Tel Aviv. (CEDAW Report)

Men pay for 25,000 acts of prostitution every day. There are 250,000 foreign male workers who help create a demand for prostituted women. Women are held in apartments, bars and brothels where they are bought by up to 15 men a day. They sleep in shifts, four to a bed. (Police officials, Michael Specter, “Traffickers’ New Cargo: Naive Slavic Women,” New York Times)

The Russian mafia has moved into Israel to profit from trafficking and prostitution. Police in Israel have been keeping around 30 organized key crime suspects under surveillance. (Kevin Connolly, “How Russia’s mafia is taking over Israel’s underworld,” BBC)

£2.5 billion (US$4 billion) of organized crime money from the former Soviet Union has been invested in Israeli real estate, businesses and banks in the past seven years. Gregory Lerner, who was arrested in 1997 for defrauding four Russian banks of £70 million (US$106 million), was reputedly sent to Israel to head up one of the money laundering operations. One highly profitable area in which organized crime thrives is prostitution. Dozens of brothels and peepshows have sprung up in Tel Aviv and Haifa in the last few years. (Former police chief Asaf Hefetz, Kevin Connolly “How Russia’s mafia is taking over Israel’s underworld” (BBC)

Israel’s demand for prostituted women may be bolstered by three groups — foreign workers, Orthodox Jews and Arabs. Many of Israel’s nearly 200,000 legal and illegal foreign workers are young, unattached men likely to buy sex. (Elisabeth Eaves, “Israel not the promised land for Russian sex slaves”, Reuters)

Amir, a Tel Aviv pimp, said a woman could cost up to $20,000, depending on her looks. “It’s like a car. It depends how valuable she is,” he said, standing on a street lined with flashing lights advertising brothels near Tel Aviv’s old central bus station. Arabs and Orthodox Jews have “very strong taboos against sexual connections outside of marriage and therefore go to a place where they can do it more anonymously. It’s a matter of supply and demand,” he said. (Elisabeth Eaves, “Israel not the promised land for Russian sex slaves,” Reuters)

The Tropicana in Tel Aviv is one of the busiest brothels. The women are all Russian. There are 12 cubicles where 20 women work in shifts, 8 during the daytime, 12 at night. Buyers are Israeli soldiers, business executives, tourists, and foreign workers. The brothel owner said, “Israelis love Russian girls. They are blonde and good looking, and they are desperate. They are ready to do anything for money.” (Michael Specter, “Traffickers’ New Cargo: Naive Slavic Women,” New York Times)

There are no official numbers regarding the extent of prostitution and the traffic of women in Israel, but there is a general consensus that it is becoming more prevalent. (CEDAW Report)

There has been a steady increase in the numbers of foreign women involved in prostitution who are arrested for illegal stays in Israel and who are detained before being deported to their home-countries; in over 95% of the cases, they were from the former USSR. The average time these women spend in prison is 50 days. The women themselves are supposed to pay for their expenses to leave Israel, but when their resources are inadequate, the Ministry of Interior finances their deportation from a special budget. (Authorities, Neve Tirza women’s prison, CEDAW Report)

Traffickers and pimps earned US$50,000 – 100,000 a year from each prostituted woman, resulting in a US$450 million sex industry. (“A modern form of slavery,” The Jerusalem Post)

1,500 Russian and Ukrainian trafficked women have been deported from 1995-1997. (Michael Specter, “Traffickers’ New Cargo: Naive Slavic Women,” New York Times)

Russian women are bought and sold by pimps in Israel for prices ranging from US$5,000 to $20,000. (Police sources, “‘Invisible’ Women Shown In Russia’s Demographics,” Martina Vandenberg, St. Petersburg Times,)

A small brothel with ten women can make up to 750,000 shekels a month (US $215,000). (Michael Specter, “Traffickers’ New Cargo: Naive Slavic Women,” New York Times)

Women trafficked from Eastern Europe, were stripped and sold naked as slaves to Tel Aviv traders for US$500-1,000. Smuggling, fraudulent documents, collaboration between police and brothel owners are involved. There are routine brutal beatings and sexual abuse. (New York Times)

The non-profit Israel Women’s Network estimates that 70% of prostituted women in Tel Aviv, Israel’s commercial center, come from the former Soviet republics, and that about 1,000 women are brought into Israel illegally each year. At any one time, as many as 100 women may be awaiting deportation in Neve Tirza women’s prison near Tel Aviv’s Ben-Gurion airport, a prison spokeswoman said. (Elisabeth Eaves, “Israel not the promised land for Russian sex slaves”, Reuters)

A poll by the Women’s Network showed 44% of Israelis believed all Russian immigrant women provided sexual services for pay. Illegal immigrants in Israel, who are mostly Russian, are often stereotyped as having brought crime and prostitution while exploiting Israeli laws enabling anyone with a Jewish grandparent to immigrate.(Elisabeth Eaves, “Israel not the promised land for Russian sex slaves,” Reuters)

Sheyda Khoramzadeh Esfahani was sentenced to death following her conviction on charges of ‘organizing `corrupt gatherings’ with prostitutes, alcohol, drugs, music and dance ` and to establish immoral contacts with people in various political bodies.” She was executed in August 1997. Her husband Abolghasem Majd-Abkahi was reportedly executed in late December 1996 or early January 1997. (Amnesty International, Further information on EXTRA 115/96)

Three women and three men were stoned to death in public in Khazar Abad after a court found them guilty of adultery and prostitution under Iran’s Islamic laws. Prostitution and adultery are illegal and punishable by death. The stoning was carried out by local citizens in public in Khazar Abad, near the Caspian Sea. (Salam, “Iran Stones Six to Death,” Asociated Press)

A 20-year-old Iranian woman was stoned for adultery in Bukan, in Western Iran. Stoning is a death sentence, but she was mistaken for dead and later revived in the morgue. A court official said that an appeal for amnesty has been submitted to the court. (“Young woman survives stoning to wake up in morgue,” Agence France Presse)

A 1992 survey showed that one out of 10 prostituted persons was under age 17, and that one out of five of those older than that age said they took up prostitution before they reached 17. (Dario Agnote, “Sex trade key part of S.E. Asian economies, study says,” Kyodo News)

The sex industry accounts for an estimated 1.2 billion dollars to 3.3 billion dollars in annual earnings, or between 0.8 and 2.4% of the country’s GDP, the study said. In Jakarta alone, prostitution-related activities are estimated to be worth 91 million dollars annually. (Dario Agnote, “Sex trade key part of S.E. Asian economies, study says,” Kyodo News)

There are between 140,000 and 230,000 prostituted persons in Indonesia (1993-1994 estimates). Prostituted persons are mainly adult women, but there are also male, transvestite and child prostitutes, both girls and boys. (International Labor Organization. Dario Agnote, “Sex trade key part of S.E. Asian economies, study says,” Kyodo News)

There are at least 650,000 prostitutes in Indonesia. In 1998 there were 150,000 registered prostitutes compared to 72,000 in 1995. 30 percent are children. (Yogyakarta Free Children Society, Mohammad Farid, “Indonesian economic crisis boosts prostitution,” Reuters)

There were 65,582 registered prostitutes in 1994. The highest estimate is 500,000 women in prostitution. (CATW – Asia Pacific, Trafficking in Women and Prostitution in the Asia Pacific)

About 200 prostituted women in Jakarta, Indonesia, protesting plans by the mayor to close down their complex carried signs stating “I did not want to become a prostitute. The economic difficulties have made me a prostitute.” (“Indonesian prostitutes join wave of protests,” Reuters)

Earnings from prostitution average $600 a month in Indonesia and are higher than in other unskilled jobs. (International Labor Organization, Elif Kaban, “UN labour body urges recognition of sex industry,” Reuters)

Particularly because of the economic crises in Asia, women in Thailand and Indonesia are increasingly forced into prostitution as the only means of survival. (“Women Workers Are Last in, First Out,” Associated Press)

In Indonesia the economic crisis has driven thousands of women into prostitution for economic survival. Although “streetwalkers” are prohibited in Jakarta, there is no law prohibiting the sale of sexual services. (Yogyakarta Free Children Society, Mohammad Farid, “Indonesian economic crisis boosts prostitution,” Reuters)

The sex industry takes in US$ 1.2 – US$ 3.6 billion. (CATW – Asia Pacific, Trafficking in Women and Prostitution in the Asia Pacific)

The city of Surbaya, with tens of thousands of prostitutes, is the largest sex industry center in South East Asia, which consists of hectares and hectares of modest houses with large, plate-glass windows where bored girls sit waiting: “streets full of human aquariums”. It is also a magnet for the divorced and dispossessed women of the strict Islamic villages. The sex industry serves as a source of women for prostitution in provincial towns, through a black market network of pimps. (Louise Williams, “Sex in the Cemetary,” Sydney Morning Herald)

30% of the girls in Semarang, Indonesia who are homeless are forced into prostitution for survival. (University Diponegoro study, Nicholas D. Kristof “Asian Crisis Deals Setbacks to Women”)

Indonesian women are being forced into prostitution as the economic crisis worsens say human rights groups. (“Indonesian mob torches prostitution complex,” Reuters)

A red-light district in Jakarta was burned by a group of 100 citizens who would not tolerate its existence any longer. The area had been raided numerous times over the course of 15 years, but never closed down. No casualties occurred. (“Indonesian mob torches prostitution complex,” Reuters)

One girl who was sold into prostitution by her family was locked up, starved and threatened by her captors. She tried to commit suicide, but the wounds were bandaged by her captors. (University Diponegoro study, Nicholas D. Kristof “Asian Crisis Deals Setbacks to Women”)

trafficker was arrested and confessed to having abducted 1,800 women from Beijing. Because of opposition from the villagers and from local officials, police were only able to rescue six women out of 1,800. (Stephanie Ho, “Trafficking of Women in China,” Voice of America)

A 12-year-old girl from the Zheijang region was sold for US$40,000 to a trafficker. She was taken to Bangkok, Thailand for “instruction” in prostitution. Authorities found the girl in Italy. Her destination was the sex industry in Miami, Florida, USA. (“Pedophilia ring uncovered in Italy,” USA Today)

A Vietnamese woman, one of seven, was trafficked under false pretenses to China. She escaped from the brothel, and returned to Vietnam, where she was locked in a hut and threatened by a local Public Security Bureau official. She eventually fled to Hong Kong in July 1991, and filed for refugee status, which was denied in 1993. In February 1998, she was still appealing the decision. (“Viet women Œdeceived into life as Œsex slaves¹,” South China Morning Post)

45 kidnapped women and children were freed after a raid on a trafficking ring in Kok Kong Province, Cambodia. (Chris Seper, “Police Sweeps Help Clean Up Child Prostitution,” Christian Science Monitor)

One trafficker, Chay Heang, arrested by police in Sihanoukville had 14 Cambodian women and children who were to be trafficked to Thailand for the purpose of sexual exploitation. Police say Heang is a minor criminal; he is connected to Chea Sarith an alleged major trafficker who lives in Koh Kong Province near the Thai border. (Chris Seper, “Police Sweeps Help Clean Up Child Prostitution,” Christian Science Monitor)

In one village in Chiang Rai, families sold 61 daughters, most between 13 or 14 years old, into prostitution, for about $480 each, an advance of her “future earnings”. At least 13 of the women were sent to brothels in Japan, or along the Thai/Malaysia border. Some of the girls have already contracted AIDS and died. The girls spend months and years enslaved to pay off the advance given to their parents. (7 year study, beginning mid1980s, Cameron W. Barr, “Asia Traffickers Keep Girls in Sexual Servitude, Criminal groups deceive and lure poor villagers,” Christian Science Monitor)

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