At the end of this hallway is a doorway to a brothel. In order to curb human trafficking, the kingdom of Cambodia passed a law that makes prostitution illegal. But then commercial sex workers are being targeted and feel that their rights are being violated under this new law. Many organizations who work with this population are worried that this might make prostitution go underground and will make it harder for these women to get free reproductive health services. Cambodia has seen a decrease of AIDS/HIV infections the past few years and many fear that this might come to a halt if sex/entertainment workers were to go underground. To read more about this, go here.
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*MYL 57 months ago | reply
A moving photo and story Sam. The world is a complicated place.
Jean-Sien Kin 57 months ago | reply
Yes, I am afraid khmer government often takes quick, strong, and generally unappropriate decisions. I believe there are no easy responses to difficult problems. They also prevented khmer ladies to marry any foreigner, because of human traffic to Taiwan. Which is one more time not very clever, why not paying decently their police to afford to dismantle criminal networks instead?
Shahriar Erfanian 57 months ago | reply
wow amazing shot!
Mal the Dsturbd Citizn [deleted] 38 months ago | reply
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Mal's Best of the Best, and we'd love to have this added to the group!