From Sex Worker to Seamstress: The High Cost of Cheap Clothes

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VICE

Cambodia's aggressive anti-trafficking campaign is designed to rescue and rehabilitate sex workers. But many women say authorities in Cambodia are actually forcing them into a trade where conditions and pay are even worse: making clothing for Western brands.

VICE News traveled to Phnom Penh to speak with former and current sex workers, officials, and labor organizers to investigate what is happening to those swept up in the country’s trafficking crackdown.

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1. So, being a sex worker in Cambodia

is better than working for Wal-Mart. That's really saying something.

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2. The authorities said those women WILL do one form of slavery or another

But hey! At least they have choice!