Description
Last year, the Japanese embassy in Laos issued a rare warning. It urged its citizens not to buy sex from children in Laos. This had thrust an overlooked crisis into the spotlight – the growing problem of child exploitation in Laos.
Long overshadowed by neighbouring Thailand and Cambodia, Laos receives far less international attention—often leaving NGOs and child protection organisations with fewer resources to tackle the problem. Poverty, weak law enforcement, rapid tourism growth, online networks and porous borders have created conditions ripe for child sexual exploitation.
As foreign demand shifts and traffickers adapt, Insight travels across Laos to investigate why the country has become fertile ground for exploitation, and whether authorities can stop a growing trade before it becomes entrenched.
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00:00 Introduction
01:23 Cafe owner exposes disturbing online posts
05:06 Inside the networks of offenders
11:53 Undercover: A hotel linked to child exploitation
16:56 The notebook that led police to a dark discovery
23:00 The children left behind
26:15 Boten: The dark side of a border town
35:21 How a suspect was caught
38:22 Can offenders escape justice?
40:27 What happens after children are rescued?
44:07 The threats faced by those who speak out
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