She was skipping school with a friend on the day she was kidnapped. Both of them were taken -- and has not seen her friend since. Vann shared her story as part of a campaign from Australian charity, Project Futures. The organisation has helped to rescue and rebuild the lives of more than women and girls throughout Cambodia and Australia, who have been trapped in the modern slavery industry.
Cambodia is a source, transit, and destination country for human trafficking. The traffickers are reportedly organized crime syndicates, parents, relatives, friends, intimate partners, and neighbors. Children are often held captive, beaten, and starved to force them into prostitution. Almost all of Cambodian brothels are Vietnamese-owned, with most of its prostitutes being of Vietnamese descent and captured sex slaves being of other ethnic groups.
Registered in Ireland: SHE remembers a home that looked fancy on the outside but ominous on the inside, a dark maze of bare chambers. She remembers the parade of men, day by day, forcing her to have sex. She remembers contemplating death.
V annith Uy is the owner of what translates from Khmer as a "mobile nail salon", although the word salon is a stretch. Three years ago, when she arrived from the countryside, Uy had a different plan. She wanted to open a hair and beauty salon on proper premises in the Cambodian capital.