Phone:
602.465.0131
Email:
info@hopejewelry.org
"International prostitution and trafficking of Asian women and children is increasing. Worldwide 700,000 to four million women and one million children are trafficked into the sex industry every year. It is the third largest and fastest growing criminal industry in the world and one of the most urgent human rights issues today.
Patpong is well known as a center for sex entertainment in Thailand and is patronized by many tourists. It consists of two small streets located in the midst of the downtown business area of Bangkok. Quiet by day with a few shops, restaurants and small businesses, at night Patpong becomes vibrant and alive with neon signs, loud music and more than 100 beer bars, Go-Go bars, brothels and massage parlors. It is estimated that each night over 4,000 women work here.
Nana Soi 4 is an emerging red light district in another area of Bangkok. Young women, many under the age of 18 work in the bars. Many foreign expatriates living in Thailand frequent the area in this horseshoe-shaped cluster of over 50 bars.
Many women working in Patpong and Soi Nana have come from poor families in the rural areas of Thailand and have little formal education and few employable skills. They come to Bangkok to earn money to support their families. At first, they do not realize that working in the bars involves prostitution."
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