ECPAT Cambodia

What We Do

Against the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC)

One of the main objectives of ECPAT-Cambodia is to strengthen a strong and effective network to fight against CSEC by strengthening the internal management affairs of ECPAT and the capacity building of members.

CSEC is the sexual abuse of a child by an adult paid for either by cash or in kind (through meals, clothes, payment of rent etc). The four elements are:
•	Child Prostitution
•	Child Pornography
•	Child Sex Tourism
•	Trafficking of children for sexual purposes

Other forms of CSEC include
•	Early child marriage

Main Activities 2005
•	Produced Child Safe Tourism Booklet for distribution at airports, hotels, guesthouses, travel agencies, tour operators and border checkpoints
•	Produced Child Safe Tourism billboards and signboards to be placed at border provinces and other tourist hotspots
•	Organized workshops with hotel and guesthouse owners, travel agencies and tour operators
•	Updated situational analysis on CSEC and published in local newspapers
•	Lobbied the Government for adoption of new law against CSEC
•	Monitored the implementation of Cambodian National Five Year Plan Against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (2000-2004)
•	Published two issues of newsletters
•	Organized and facilitated monthly meetings amongst member organizations so as to promote coordination and cooperation

Main Activities 2006
•	Anti Child Trafficking Campaign was launched on 12 December, 2006 in 6 different locations in 6 provinces, hoping that it would be adopted as National Day against Child Trafficking by the Government.
•	Two CST training workshops were held in cooperation with the Ministry of Tourism for tourism industry personnel and relevant parties in two provinces.
•	A one-day training workshop for forty Tuk Tuk drivers in Phnom Penh was held in July in cooperation with the Ministry of Tourism.
•	Four member meetings have been held to share information and experience.
•	The annual conference was conducted on 19th December, 2006 to discuss and find out future strategies.
•	Two capacity building sessions were conducted for member organizations on CSEC and Data Collection Methods.
•	Four issues of a situational analysis of media report on rape and trafficking were published to inform people about trends and routes of rape and trafficking.
•	Four issues of CST advertisement were advertised in an In-Flight magazine.
•	Forty CST signboards that were carried around in Phnom Penh by Tuk Tuk displaying the message ‘We are absolutely against child sex tourism’ along with the hotline number have been posted.
•	Forty thousand copies of CSEC poster have been produced and distributed to member organizations and other interested parties.
•	Two mobile billboards on Child Safe Tourism have been produced and displayed on buses running between Phnom Penh-Sihanoukville and route Phnom Penh-Siem Reap.
•	Two fixed billboards have been installed a long the side of the national road in Choeung Prey district of Kampong Cham and in Smach Meanchey district of Koh Kong provinces.

Main Activities 2007
•	Continued advertising of 40 CST signboards from last year on Tuk Tuk in Phnom Penh. Twenty more Tuk Tuks will be added soon.
•	Four issues of advertisement against CST were advertised in an In-Flight magazine.
•	Two mobile billboards against Child Sex Tourism have been produced and displayed on buses running from Phnom Penh-Sihanouk Ville and Phnom Penh-Siem Reap.
•	One CST workshop with tourism industry personnel was held in Battambang province in cooperation with the Ministry of Tourism.
•	Third edition of CSEC Frequent Questions and Answers Booklet were produced and distributed to member organizations and pertinent parties.
•	Three situational analyses on Rape and Trafficking were produced and published in the local newspaper.
•	One issue of newsletter has been printed and distributed.
•	Three member meetings were held and one BOD meeting was held.
•	One capacity building training for member organizations was conducted from 07 to 09 May, 2007.
•	1000 self study booklet on Psychosocial Rehabilitation was distributed to member organizations and interested institutions.
•	A training workshop on record sheet completion was held for NGOs participating in database project.
•	A launching workshop to release database report 2003-2004 was held in March 2007.