Forced Marriages Turn Women into Slaves
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2016 6:04 pm
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...
Read on: http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25615/ ... s--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...
Read on: http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25615/ ... s--report/
