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Cambodia, whose recent history has been tragic, with the loss of an estimated 2 million
lives (about 25% of the population) during Pol Pot's brutal reign in the 1970's, foreign
incursions and civil war, has one of the world’s highest rates of child sexual exploitation and large numbers of women and children are being trafficked both locally and internationally.

Child prostitution remains a major problem with children often forced into the sex trade,
sold by their caretakers and stolen from their villages. Incidents of rape, sexual assault and abduction are prevalent in both city and provincial areas of Cambodia and it has unfortunately become a popular and heavily frequented destination for sex tourists and child sex offenders.

Due to lackadaisical law enforcement, poverty and unequal development opportunities, human trafficking and sexual exploitation are disproportionately prevalent in Cambodia compared to neighboring countries and other parts of the world.

Poverty in Cambodia is grossly widespread affecting a large majority of the country’s population, magnifying the vulnerability of women and children to human trafficking and sexual exploitation and encouraging criminals and sexual predators to exploit the
population’s vulnerability.

Local law enforcement and judicial process is influenced by endemic corruption resulting in extremely low numbers of local policing investigations of human trafficking and illegal sexual activity and minimal detection and prosecution of offenders, both local and
international.