One-third SE Asian prostitutes are children: UNICEF

[Diane Monaco]

In addition to these well-documented supply-side factor increases is a not 
so well-documented growing demand for sex exploitation coming directly from 
the "developed" world -- with these increases being facilitated (caused?) 
by the forces of globalization.  And furthermore can we really say that 
supply creates its own demand as in Jean-Baptiste Say's Law of Markets? I 
think not. Thanks for posting the article, Ulhas, I will forward it.

Diane

At 07:58 AM 12/12/2001 +0530, you wrote:


>BANGKOK, Thailand: An estimated one-third of the sex workers in Southeast
>Asia are children, and poverty is driving more minors into the sex trade,
>said a report released Friday by UNICEF.
>
>"What experienced child protection workers sense is that the problem is
>growing, fueled by conditions of poverty, illiteracy, AIDS and drug abuse,"
>said UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund.