MALAYSIA WOMENS ISSUES
Malaysia is receiving country for trafficked women from Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, China, India, Taiwan, Singapore, Burma, Vietnam, Sri Lanka and Laos.
(CATW - Asia Pacific, Trafficking in Women and Prostitution in the Asia Pacific)
Malaysian women can be found in prostitution in Hong Kong and Australia.
(CATW - Asia Pacific, Trafficking in Women and Prostitution in the Asia Pacific)
In a brothel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 37 Thai and Chinese women were found hidden in a small secret room during a police raid on a restaurant which fronted as a brothel.
Up to 12 men bought them each night for M$18 (Bt215), which went to the brothel owner and pimps.
The women were in very poor mental and physical health.........
There are 43,000 to 142,000 or more prostituted persons in Malaysia.
Prostituted persons are mainly adult women, but there are also male, transvestite and child prostitutes, both girls and boys.
(International Labor Organization. Dario Agnote, "Sex trade key part of S.E. Asian economies, study says," Kyodo News, 18 August 1998)
Studies show that more than half of those ''rescued'' from various sex establishments were under age 18.
(Dario Agnote, "Sex trade key part of S.E. Asian economies, study says," Kyodo News, 18 August 1998)
Malaysia is a particular destination for various nations' sex tours.
(CATW - Asia Pacific, Trafficking in Women and Prostitution in the Asia Pacific)
Some of the women were suffering from asthma and some from wounds caused by severe beatings.
The women were never allowed outside.
Malaysian police in cooperation with Thai officials carried out the rescue.
The raid team, comprised of more than 50 officers, used hammers and acetylene torches to cut through three iron gates.
("Thai sex slaves set free," The Nation, 25 July 1997)
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