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Forced Marriages Turn Women Into Slaves: Report

About 55,000 Cambodians are victims of forced marriage in Cambodia and they comprise 22 percent of the estimated 256,800 people in modern slavery in Cambodia, according to an Australian NGO’s findings cited in the Global Slavery Index report released yesterday.

According to the 2016 Global Slavery Index, Cambodia had the third highest estimated prevalence of modern slavery, behind North Korea and Uzbekistan. The Global Slavery Index estimates 256,800 Cambodians, or 1.65 percent of the total population, live in conditions of modern slavery in the Kingdom, based on a national representative survey undertaken last year to identify instances of both forced marriage and forced labor within the general population.

Surveys done by the Western Australia-based Walk Free Foundation for the Global Slavery Index suggest some 55,800 Cambodian women, or 22 percent of the 256,800 in slavery, were in forced marriages and trafficked for marriage overseas to countries like China, Taiwan and South Korea.

“In 2014, UNICEF reported 18 percent of Cambodian women marry under the age of 18. Article 5 of the Law on Marriage and Family (1989) allows for the marriage of children upon the consent of their parents or guardians if the girl becomes pregnant,” said the report. But the report stressed the need for further research into forced marriages, and added: “While girls might be forced to marry if they get pregnant through rape, there is insufficient data to suggest this is widespread.”

The Walk Free surveys on the trafficking of marriage-age Cambodian women indicate the growing demand for foreign brides in China where men are desperate to marry because of the dearth of marriageable Chinese women, due in part to the stark gender imbalance in the country.

“Cambodian women, eager to escape impoverished lives in rural villages, are entering brokered marriages to Chinese men in the hope of a more lucrative life. In reality, many women find themselves deceived about their new living conditions, with many resettled in rural China forced to work on farms or as domestic helpers, with some experiencing abuse at the hands of their husbands,” stated the Global Slavery Index report.

The report also stated that Cambodian women were forced into marriages with Korean and Taiwanese men, some of whom were subsequently forced into prostitution...

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No surprise here, the poor are fucked over everywhere.
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Who doesn't have a live-in maid getting paid $80 a month?


I don't. But it was the norm for many years.
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What exactly is a "forced marriage" with the definition of this study? Anybody that get married under the age of 18, any all arranged marriages, all brokered marriages, or some subset of these? If it is a subset, how do they know how many were "forced"?
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LTO wrote:What exactly is a "forced marriage" with the definition of this study? Anybody that get married under the age of 18, any all arranged marriages, all brokered marriages, or some subset of these? If it is a subset, how do they know how many were "forced"?
Good question.I couldn't find the definition used for this study, but I found this from wikipedia which makes interesting reading. The Global Slavery Index was only started in 2013, and some of their findings are contested.

Interesting to compare their stats from 2014 to 2016 - to keep things simple with 3 figures:
1/ Estimated % of population in modern slavery 2/ Estimated number of population in modern slavery 3/Total population of the country.
In 2014 Cambodia was N° 14 on the Global Slavery Index, in 2016 Cambodia is listed as N°3 after n.Korea and Uzbekistan.

N°14/ 2014 Cambodia 1/ 1.0292 2/ 155,800 3/ 15,135,169

N°3/ 2016 Cambodia 1/ 1.648 2/ 256,800 3/ 15,578,000
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Slavery_Index
http://www.globalslaveryindex.org/findings/#

What does this mean ? How to explain 100,000 more slaves in Cambodia in 2 years ? I haven't even looked, but I'd guess they have changed either their criteria or the method of gathering data.
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Username Taken wrote:Who doesn't have a live-in maid getting paid $80 a month?
I don't. But it was the norm for many years.
Yep, so if you marry your maid you can save $80 a month, that makes $960 a year, plus inflation. :stir:
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In short, the study is bullshit.
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