RN Documentary: Used and Abused: Child Trafficking in Southeast Asia
Series: RN Documentaries
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Length: 00:29:30
The program looks at why growing numbers of children and young people are being trafficked in Southeast Asia. Poverty is certainly one of the driving forces, but there are many others. A young prostitute and a young Cambodian girls talk about their experiences. Experts explain the measures that are being taken to re-integrate these children with their families and why it is so difficult to stamp out child trafficking.
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The program looks at why growing numbers of children and young people are being trafficked in Southeast Asia. Poverty is certainly one of the driving forces, but there are many others. A young prostitute and a young Cambodian girls talk about their experiences. Experts explain the measures that are being taken to re-integrate these children with their families and why it is so difficult to stamp out child trafficking.
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Radio Netherlands, the Dutch International Service, presents ?Used and Abused: Child Trafficking in southeast Asia?. The programme is produced and presented by Eric Beauchemin.
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The number that is usually mentioned by agencies that one-third of the global trafficking around the world takes place here in Asia. 0?09?
I f there?s one thing that people remember about trafficking it?s about somebody exploiting somebody to make a profit for themselves. That?s what it?s about. 0?07?
Ages ranging from approximately 9 to 15, 16, 17. Younger children are also involved but ? down to 5, 6, 7 ? and even younger than that in terms of some street-begging gangs and what not. 0?12?
Throughout southeast Asia, tens of thousands of children are being trafficked. Most go to neighbouring countries, but they can be sent as far away as South Korea or Australia. Because human trafficking is ille...
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Anthea Raymond
Posted on July 16, 2006 at 11:47 AM | Permalink
Review of RN Documentary: Used and Abused: Child Trafficking in Southeast Asia
Three and and a half stars
Eric Beauchemin?s half hour documentary includes some deep research about child trafficking in Southeast Asia. It makes you glad you listened to it twice ? which you need to do to get the most from it.
Beauchemin?s dug up a lot of contrarian stuff about child workers we don?t always hear in the sensational storytelling endemic to this subject. I particularly enjoyed learning about the range of work girl and boy workers do. It isn?t just sex work. Economic pressure means keeping your options open, and that?s compelling.
Now the flipside: good reporting can, unfortunately, make for challenging radio, especially over a half hour. Beauchemin?s keen to make the most of the tape he has. So we have long interviews with experts, and with one Vietnamese worker, Vong, herself. That?s given the piece a slightly talky feel, with little ambient sound and scenario to break it up.
Perhaps this material wasn?t available. If so, some other device to break up the info flow ? musical or media interludes ? would have been welcome.
The piece opens strongly, with a good variety of textures and voices. Perhaps the open too can provide clues about how these interludes might work.
Finally, US listeners, who are not used to hearing translation, may tune out over the many foreign language clips and conversations here.
Programmers should consider scheduling this in the mid-day, when listeners are likely to be freshest and open to this deep exploration that asks a little more of the audience.
Anthea Raymond
PRX Editorial Board
Los Angeles
July 16, 2006