The Brothel to Sweatshop Pipeline
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Re: The Brothel to Sweatshop Pipeline
Mishmash wrote: ↑Thu Oct 10, 2019 3:16 pmYeah and some good 'fairy-tale' stories to match..
I was trafficked at age 18 by the NGO's who I trusted to help me. Instead I was trafficked to a factory where the owner paid only according to the Labor Law. I couldn't stop shaking as i was forced to sign a contract for a fair wage. Every day i had to eat at the heavily - subsidized canteen - the varied and healthy meals made me long for the unhygienic outside stalls I enjoyed before. I was afraid for my children playing in the creche. The guards were so mean and nasty - they wouldn't let the children hurt themselves. Then the owner only paid me twice a month, along with days off for 'family reasons'. I can say there were not enough holidays - Cambodia is only top with 28 but there should be more. I would be sick more often if I could. The worst part was when the boss-lady explained i had to make a pair of jeans every now and again - it was horrific. Please, i beg Somaly Mom - don't let's try and better ourselves with an honest living. It's too much to bear - i could kill myself but my facebook likes during working hours are getting so popular
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Cambodia,,,, Don't fall in love with her.
Like the spoilt child she is, she will not be happy till she destroys herself from within and breaks your heart.
Like the spoilt child she is, she will not be happy till she destroys herself from within and breaks your heart.
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Re: The Brothel to Sweatshop Pipeline
Most of these girls/women have bottom of the barrel. literacy, much less sufficient education to freely seek better employerment elsewhere. Plus many jobs require a "ksai"or string to whom they must pay money to get that job. So how far does minimal or no education combined with poverty get them,? Small wonder there are so many street walkers and bar girls here.
And as for "The garment industry is well unionized" that is simply an illusion, real union workers from our countries would gag.
What are they being compared to-garment workers in Bangladesh?
And as for "The garment industry is well unionized" that is simply an illusion, real union workers from our countries would gag.
What are they being compared to-garment workers in Bangladesh?
As my old Cajun bait seller used to say, "I opes you luck.
Re: The Brothel to Sweatshop Pipeline
I don't think the article is about how hard or not it is for these girls working in the textile factories, but more on the charity and organisations to help these young victims to have a normal life.
Always "hope" but never "expect".
Re: The Brothel to Sweatshop Pipeline
https://www.afesip.org/donateDuncan wrote: ↑Thu Oct 10, 2019 3:32 pmMishmash wrote: ↑Thu Oct 10, 2019 3:16 pmYeah and some good 'fairy-tale' stories to match..
I was trafficked at age 18 by the NGO's who I trusted to help me. Instead I was trafficked to a factory where the owner paid only according to the Labor Law. I couldn't stop shaking as i was forced to sign a contract for a fair wage. Every day i had to eat at the heavily - subsidized canteen - the varied and healthy meals made me long for the unhygienic outside stalls I enjoyed before. I was afraid for my children playing in the creche. The guards were so mean and nasty - they wouldn't let the children hurt themselves. Then the owner only paid me twice a month, along with days off for 'family reasons'. I can say there were not enough holidays - Cambodia is only top with 28 but there should be more. I would be sick more often if I could. The worst part was when the boss-lady explained i had to make a pair of jeans every now and again - it was horrific. Please, i beg Somaly Mom - don't let's try and better ourselves with an honest living. It's too much to bear - i could kill myself but my facebook likes during working hours are getting so popular
Something wrong here,,,, Cannot find the '' Donate Here '' button.
Always "hope" but never "expect".
Re: The Brothel to Sweatshop Pipeline
The beefy 7% spent on Education and Training from their Annual Income convinces me this is the way forward... Just wait while i write the cheque..AndyKK wrote: ↑Thu Oct 10, 2019 4:01 pmhttps://www.afesip.org/donateDuncan wrote: ↑Thu Oct 10, 2019 3:32 pmMishmash wrote: ↑Thu Oct 10, 2019 3:16 pmYeah and some good 'fairy-tale' stories to match..
I was trafficked at age 18 by the NGO's who I trusted to help me. Instead I was trafficked to a factory where the owner paid only according to the Labor Law. I couldn't stop shaking as i was forced to sign a contract for a fair wage. Every day i had to eat at the heavily - subsidized canteen - the varied and healthy meals made me long for the unhygienic outside stalls I enjoyed before. I was afraid for my children playing in the creche. The guards were so mean and nasty - they wouldn't let the children hurt themselves. Then the owner only paid me twice a month, along with days off for 'family reasons'. I can say there were not enough holidays - Cambodia is only top with 28 but there should be more. I would be sick more often if I could. The worst part was when the boss-lady explained i had to make a pair of jeans every now and again - it was horrific. Please, i beg Somaly Mom - don't let's try and better ourselves with an honest living. It's too much to bear - i could kill myself but my facebook likes during working hours are getting so popular
Something wrong here,,,, Cannot find the '' Donate Here '' button.
I DID see a worthy cause - Tha angkor tep hospital from a recent thread where the ladies raised the cash to build it by genuine means. The boss gets 12k a year stipend and pays her own fares to and from Cambodia/Canada and her other expenses out of that. Their admin costs are 2%. I AM donating to that!
Re: The Brothel to Sweatshop Pipeline
It remind me some politicians that make you believe that they will help you but they only use you to get money or power.Kung-fu Hillbilly wrote: ↑Mon Sep 09, 2019 10:23 am
Photo by Schone Kleren Campagne
Meredith Kirby
Sep 2
How sex trafficking victims are “rescued” into other kinds of forced labor
Survivor, sex-trafficking activist, author of the autobiography The Road of Lost Innocence, and one of Time’s Most Influential People in 2009; the once-illustrious Somaly Mam claimed to have rescued thousands of women and children from sex trafficking.
One of Mam’s biggest “stars” was Meas Ratha, who described being sold to a brothel on French television in 1998. Ratha later admitted that she had never been trafficked, and was sent to AFESIP due to her parents being unable to care for their seven children.
Instead of liberating these women from slave conditions, many of these NGOs are simply normalizing other kinds of low-wage jobs, which also exist within dangerous and abusive work environments.These actions also create a culture of shame, where it’s not acceptable for a woman to reject this sort of job, once she has already been “rescued.”
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Very interesting post Kung-fu Hillbilly
Re: The Brothel to Sweatshop Pipeline
Yeah, the bandits extort us every month. Normally you can expect to get mugged once in a lifetime but these clever thieves have their hand constantly in my pocket.
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