Cambodian prostitutes Pheap Neang, left, Srey Mao, back left, Soeum Rotha, center, Yin Nuon, back center, Chan Toeung, back right, and Yin Ney, front right, gather at a Phnom Penh slum. (Photo: ASSOCIATED PRESS)While the US has done much work to punish sex traffickers in Cambodia, many other countries fail to do so, leaving children in danger.
By Sok Khemara, VOA Khmer
Washington
Saturday, 10 April 2010
While the US has done much work to punish sex traffickers in Cambodia, many other countries fail to do so, leaving children in danger, the director of a rights group said Thursday.
“There are some countries that ignore or don’t pay full attention to punishing and trying their own citizens who commit this in Cambodia,” Samleang Seila, Cambodia’s country director for Action Pour Les Enfants, told “Hello VOA.”
Some nations support the release of alleged perpetrators from detention or seek reduced punishment from the government, he said.
“Some countries apply [the law] well and firmly, such as the US, but some countries need to take similar action,” he said.
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