Women trafficked to S'pore & Aussie lured into prostitution
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Women trafficked to Singapore and Australia
lured into prostitution.
David Manne, director of the Refugee and Immigration Legal Centre in Melbourne which represented the five women, said sexual slavery still existed in Australia.....
This is a universial problems,too.
Some women or even girls in First World countries are also
cheated or forced to work as prostitutes in their own
countries or overseas.
Do u know in HK and Macau,they dispaly''Girls from Singapore.
Malaysia and Thailand''to serve u?
Many forumers are too navie to think that
only SG suffer from similiar problems.In other countries,
corruptions,lose of guns control ,drugs and organised gangsters
activitives make all the problems.There,u hardly see problems
improve in the near future.........
LKY may be politically incorrectly to leaglise prostituton.
But in reality , it would be worse if not legalised.
More women would suffer.
Singapore are open country
SG dunt need to see your bank saving before letting them in.
SG have mutual agreements with ASEAN countries for
free travelling.How can the ICA staff in can tell that she is
sold to SG?
Blame her own country more,please
The life in their own countries improve too slow,
partly thanks to westerns advocating elections
and rotations of governments.
Dunt treat SG as the only sin country.Others also
facing same problems
Australia is a good examples where many forumers
say they are very familiar.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/latest/4970964/sex-slave-convictions-upheld
Sex slave convictions upheld
August 28, 2008, 6:04 pm
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The (Australia)federal government needs to do more to eliminate sexual slavery in Australia, a lawyer said, after the High Court upheld the conviction of a former Melbourne brothel owner.
Wei Tang was sentenced to 10 years jail for enslaving five Thai women at her inner- Melbourne brothel, Club 417, and forcing them to serve 900 clients to work off debts of $45,000 each.
In June last year, Tang successfully appealed her convictions in the Victorian Court of Appeal.
But the High Court on Thursday overturned the Court of Appeal order for a new trial and held that the prosecution made out the required elements of the offences and did not need to prove she knew or believed the women were slaves.....
The federal government needs to do more to eliminate sexual slavery in Australia, a lawyer said, after the High Court upheld the conviction of a former Melbourne brothel owner.
Wei Tang was sentenced to 10 years jail for enslaving five Thai women at her inner- Melbourne brothel, Club 417, and forcing them to serve 900 clients to work off debts of $45,000 each.
In June last year, Tang successfully appealed her convictions in the Victorian Court of Appeal.
But the High Court on Thursday overturned the Court of Appeal order for a new trial and held that the prosecution made out the required elements of the offences and did not need to prove she knew or believed the women were slaves.
David Manne, director of the Refugee and Immigration Legal Centre in Melbourne which represented the five women, said sexual slavery still existed in Australia.....
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http://singabloodypore.rsfblog.org/archive/2008/09/01/women-trafficked-to-singapore-lured-into-prostitution.html
Women trafficked to Singapore lured into prostitution
SINGAPORE (AFP) — Three weeks after having her appendix removed last year, Filipina bar girl Camille was forced by her pimp back to work as a prostitute in Singapore.
Penniless and deeply in debt in a foreign land, 24-year-old Camille, not her real name, had no choice.
She says she had sex with men in hotel trysts arranged by her pimp, who took most of the money, until she sought shelter at the Philippine embassy.Pl learn from other countries how to tackle problems,
dunt just balme PAP
We are not the sole sin countries in Asia or in the world.
nnn
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NGOs say more can be done to help duped foreign workers
By Esther Ng, TODAY | Posted: 05 September 2008 1108 hrs
SINGAPORE: They were promised well-paying jobs as waitresses in Singapore, food and lodging all paid for; all they needed to do was to buy an air ticket.
But when Rosa, 28, and Gabrielle, 26, (not their real names) arrived in Singapore, they were whisked from the airport to a bar in Tanjong Katong and were told to entertain men.
"We were shocked. The girls were acting like prostitutes. We thought we would be working as waitresses," said Rosa.
Stories of unscrupulous labour agents promising foreign workers lucrative jobs in Singapore are not new. In July, The Daily Express, a newspaper in Sabah, reported how a group of Sabahan young men and women ended up doing menial jobs in the Republic.
One of them, a 21-year-old Sabahan, told the paper that he was promised a job in the hotel sector, but he ended up being forced to clean septic tanks and was given only one meal a day.
The youth claimed that some 70 Sabahan youths, including about 20 girls, were facing a similar predicament.
Why, despite Singapore's strict labour laws, are we still hearing stories of foreign workers being duped into coming to Singapore?
Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) that TODAY spoke to said these people -usually from rural areas - are not very educated and naive. If this is the case, is there any way Singapore can better inform foreign workers about the work conditions here?
What about host countries, such as Indonesia, the Philippines and Bangladesh? Are they doing enough to educate their citizens about the market conditions in Singapore?
The Philippine government seems most proactive in this respect. It has a special agency, the Philippine Overseas Employment Agency, that is tasked with deploying Filipino workers overseas.
The agency has units which investigate and prosecute illegal recruiters. Under Philippine law, illegal recruitment is a criminal act and punishable by imprisonment and/or fine.
According to the Philippine Ambassador to Singapore, Ms Belen Fule-Anota, the embassy constantly reminds its local government units to be vigilant against illegal job recruiters and agencies.
And while its efforts are commendable, the Philippine government has found it hard educating its citizens that most will not qualify for Singapore's employment schemes and that the work promised by illegal recruiters are just a sham - hence stories like Rosa's and Gabrielle continue to be told.
It doesn't help that many who have been duped are unwilling to make a police report.
"Women who have trafficked into the sex trade just want to go home. They are scared to make a police report because they are afraid that the syndicates will harm them or their family members," said Ms Saleemah Ismail, president of the United Nations Development Fund for Women (Unifem) Singapore.
Another reason, according to Ms Bridget Liew, founder and president of Humanitarian Organisation for Migration Economics, is that a police investigation would mean that they would have to stay back to give evidence in court.
"This could take a few months to a year depending on the case. In the mean time, the women languish at a shelter as they can't find work," explained Ms Liew.
In April this year, Nominated MP Eunice Olsen asked Mr Gan Kim Yong, the Acting Minister for Manpower, what was being done to prevent rogue agents from duping foreign workers into coming to Singapore, and whether those who have been duped are considered to have committed any offence and therefore treated as criminals.
Mr Gan replied that the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) will revoke the licences of employment agencies found to be involved in such scams.
Agencies operating without a licence will be charged under the Employment Agencies Act and fined up to S$5,000; repeat offenders can be fined up to S$10,000, jailed up to six months, or both.
"If investigations reveal that victims of such scams unknowingly overstayed or worked illegally, they will not be prosecuted. Instead, they will be issued Special Passes and allowed to work under MOM's Temporary Jobs Scheme," he said.
Foreign nationals required as prosecution witnesses will also be issued with Special Passes to remain in Singapore, and allowed to participate in the Temporary Jobs Scheme.
The MOM will also be sharing information on such scams with the embassies of the countries involved, so that they can help warn their nationals against unscrupulous employment agencies in their home countries, Mr Gan said.
CALL FOR GREATER COORDINATION
However, several NGO officials say that illegal construction workers are more likely to seek redress if they can apply for a Special Pass and work while they testify against their errant employment agency.
It is harder for women who have been duped to identify agents or syndicates since these businesses are shady and most probably not registered.
Moreover, these women have to deal with the trauma of sexual abuse, the burden of debt and the fear that their family members may be in harm's way. The last thing they want to do is to prolong their stay in Singapore.
According to Ms Saleemah: "It would help if our police were trained to be deal with women who have been trafficked, perhaps that might encourage them to bring charges against these syndicates."
President of Transient Workers Count Two, Mr John Gee, suggests that greater coordination between home and recipient countries is needed to address the problem of trafficking.
These include protection for witnesses, financial support for these trafficked victims, stepping-up anti-human trafficking laws and reducing poverty in the region.
On its part, MOM says it is working with all the relevant organisations to extend a helping hand to workers affected by unscrupulous employment agents. - TODAY/fa
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Hmm.... I've heard of girls coming to Sg using a social visit visa... illegally working along Geylang & go back to their homeland after the 30 days's visa is up. Within that 30 days, something like S$30,000 can be earned!!!
I guess if there is no demand then there will not be supply.
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Originally posted by d3rF:
Hmm.... I've heard of girls coming to Sg using a social visit visa... illegally working along Geylang & go back to their homeland after the 30 days's visa is up. Within that 30 days, something like S$30,000 can be earned!!!
I guess if there is no demand then there will not be supply.
And who are demanding???, the old SG guys. You can't blame those gals doing their trade here, they cannot find a job back home, so, the old SG guys are their savour, and yet the ICA still permit them many re-entry, it show our govt approval on such trade. Even the PRC peoples told me they are surprise at the openness of Singapore toward prostitution activities, more open then third world countries, when afterall, our laws dun even permit chewing gum.The aging guys population need some comfort and luxury, so we sg gals must also set up boy boy clubs in future.
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Women's trafficking had been around seen ancient times, we are treated like commodities, not a surprise. And all these are created by men, men who call themselve civilised gentlemen. PUi!!! puke!!! no respect for yr sisters, mothers and grandmothers..puke,..men!!
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Since ancient aristocrats time , it has been around lah, run, and sanctioned by men in power.
Prositution is the world's oldest profession and deeply rooted in all things which are biological. its hard to get rid of it.
In the animal Kingdom, have u heard of female apes giving sex to mae apes in return for food during times of drought?. Even in animals it is found. How to rid of it, tell me lah?
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There is no hard and fast rule, one man greed looking for a hole is another women prey. I believe we must build on communication and education, men must learn to
1. treasure and cherish his family as a family man
2. be a true civilised man that love his gf or wife truthfully
3. Understanding that the creation of prositution is a mankind
mankind mistake that even animals do not practice at all.
4. Understanding that the woman you sex are another child mother, another man wife, another man sister.
5. And finally the agony of STD and HIV contraction and family
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women who commit adultary must also learn the above 5 points.