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World Vision Leads Workshop to Combat Child Sex Tourism

March 7, 2005

World Vision's Child Sex Tourism Prevention Project (CSTP) continues to gain new ground in the fight to end child sex tourism. This week, a landmark gathering occurred in Phnom Penh: a Child Sex Tourism Prevention Workshop, organized and hosted by World Vision in Cambodia.

The workshop brought together numerous World Vision staff along with representatives from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Australian Federal Police, the embassies of the U.S., Canada, Australia and Britain, the Cambodian government and several other nonprofit organizations. More than 100 participated in the two-day event.

The objectives of the workshop included:
  • train World Vision and other staff on how to better identify a child sex tourist
  • train World Vision and other staff on the types of information and evidence that are helpful to US law enforcement for prosecutions (not training our staff to be investigators, but teaching them what to do with testimony and evidence that they come across in the normal course of their work)
  • establish procedures for handling information, evidence and victim testimony
  • establish an incident reporting process between World Vision and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement;
  • create a standardized incident report form
  • discuss U.S., Cambodian and international laws against child sex tourism
  • build-up our network and collaboration among nonprofit organizations and government agencies to identify and combat child sex tourists from the US, and elsewhere
  • discuss victim aftercare
  • provide closed-door sessions for government-to-government discussions.
Similar workshops are being organized and hosted by WV in Bangkok during March and in Costa Rica later in the year. All three workshops are a core element of the Child Sex Tourism Prevention Project.

The project, launched this year combines a strategic ad campaign designed to deter would-be child sex tourists, and collaboration with law enforcement agencies to help identify offenders and pass along key information for investigators.

These workshops are pioneering events that have moved World Vision to the next level in combatting child sex tourism. World Vision staff in the Cambodia, Thailand and Costa Rica national offices are making great progress in their work to end child sex tourism.
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