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It is reported in  the State Department's Trafficking in Person's Report (TIP Report), Cambodia is ranked as a Tier 2 and on the Watch List. Ranked as a Tier 2 and on the watch list means that the Cambodian government "does not fully comply with the Act’s minimum standards but are making significant efforts to bring themselves into compliance with those standards."

The country of "Cambodia is a source, destination, and transit country for men, women, and children trafficked for the purposes of sexual exploitation and forced labor."  It is also known that, "Cambodia is a transit and destination point for women from Vietnam trafficked for sexual exploitation"

ASSOCIATED PRESS 11:25 p.m. October 29, 2006

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia – A police officer from San Francisco has been arrested and charged with sexually abusing a girl in Cambodia, officials said Monday.
Ngeth Sarath, a prosecutor of the Phnom Penh Municipal Court, said that on Sunday he formally charged Donald Rene Ramirez, 50, with debauchery for allegedly having sex with a 14-year-old ethnic Vietnamese girl. 

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By KAREN MATTHEWS
Associated Press Writer October 30, 2006, 8:16 PM EST
NEW YORK -- A Cambodian human rights activist who has dedicated her life to rescuing women and girls from sexual slavery said Monday she hopes that being honored as one of Glamour magazine's women of the year will help draw attention to her cause.

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PHNOM PENH: A Cambodian court charged an American man with human trafficking and sexually abusing two underage Vietnamese girls. Myron Maboris, 46, a US citizen of South Korean origin, was arrested Wednesday after police raided his room at a guesthouse in Phnom Penh, said Keo Thea, deputy chief of the municipal anti-trafficking police.

 

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(18-10-2006)

HA NOI — Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung yesterday received a delegation from Cambodia’s Ministry of Social Affairs, Labour, Vocational Training and Youth Rehabilitation, led by Minister Ith Sam Heng.

 

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HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - A court in Ho Chi Minh City sentenced two women to prison for smuggling 16 women to Malaysia and other countries in the region and forcing them to work as prostitutes, state-controlled media reported Tuesday.   Read More...


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