BEIJING: Child sex tourism conference
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Child sex tourism - a major problem in the Asia Pacific - is being addressed at a meeting of regional governments in Beijing. With tourism booming, the spin off has been the increase in predators marking Asia and the Pacific as markets to engage in under-age sex. In 2004, 119 million tourists headed to the Asia Pacific region with 17.8 million travelling to countries around the Mekong. A meeting is being held this week in Beijing to discuss progress on ending child sex tourism and human trafficking.
Presenter: Sonja Heydeman
Speakers: ++ Lawrence Gray, World Vision's Director of Advocacy in the Asia Pacific
++ Abid Gulzar, World Vision's representative based in Cambodia.
