Cambodia: Sex workers seek to help take on human trafficking

Like other Southeast Asian nations, Cambodia is home to an extensive sex industry. While some women choose to become sex workers for financial or other reasons, many others are victims of human trafficking. Cambodia's sex workers are now asking NGOs and law enforcement to let them have a say in programs to prevent human trafficking and educate at-risk populations on HIV.

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2009072827405/National-news/sex-workers-seek-policy-partners.html

Cambodia's government has lately faced international protests over its policy of isolating HIV-positive citizens, many of them sex workers, in a special HIV colony. Colony residents lack clean water and are far removed from jobs, adequate health care, etc.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/07/28/cambodia.hiv/index.html