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Malaysia to Fight Trafficking of Women and Children


World  (tags: Malaysia, children, women, crime, Anti-Trafficking )

Kemsa
- 954 days ago - inteldaily.com
The Malaysian Cabinet has approved a bill to fight the trafficking of women and children, a move welcomed Monday by an activist group that said it was the country's first law to fight the "huge problem."
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Nuraini A. (39)
Thursday May 17, 2007, 3:27 am
"According to police statistics in the ministry's statement, almost 400 foreign women were rescued "from vice" between 2004 and last year.

Fernandez said those figures seemed skewed. She said trafficking of women into Malaysia was a "huge problem" and estimated that thousands were being brought into the country illegally."


malaysia is a 'transit' country, as well as 'destination' country, to a smaller extent, and to even smaller extent, also a 'source' country. unfortunately, i think i deleted the link to the international NGO that compiled this information. :( sorry.
 

Enric Mestres Girbal (3)
Thursday May 17, 2007, 6:32 am
I wish them good luck, but, unfortunatly, I'm sceptic about the effectivity of such bills. Of course, we have to be glad, even if only one of those women or girls are saved from sex slavery, but when we look around we see the same problem in every country, and, no matter haw many laws, this type of crime grows... and grows... Corruption, big money, inadecuated laws, lenient judges, scarce police force, ?. En Europe, one of the biggest brothels is Spain; from north to south and frm east to west, the whole country is prostitution land; women from all over( willingly or not) are brought by the maffias; streets, road sides, flats and show centres are full of them... the police raids them every now and then...if they can get one of the maffia members, three days in jail... the girls can go to work nex day. Maybe its time to slow down in "modern ways of life" and bring back the old morals.
 

Kemsa Amon-Ra (177)
Thursday May 17, 2007, 7:40 am
I wonder why world society have to use children and women as sex slave. Slavery of all kind have to stop!!!!
 
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