Editing Sexual slavery (section)

===Asia===
====Central and West Asia====
{{See also|History of slavery#ISIL slave trade|Human rights in ISIL-controlled territory#Slave trade|Genocide of Yazidis by ISIL#Sexual slavery|Sexual jihad|Sexual violence in the Iraqi insurgency|Slavery in 21st-century Islamism}}

The Trafficking in Persons Report of 2007 from the US Department of State says that sexual slavery exists in the [[Persian Gulf]], where women and children may be trafficked from the [[post-Soviet states]], Eastern Europe, [[Far East]], Africa, [[South Asia]] or other parts [[Middle East]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://2001-2009.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2007/100608.htm |title=United Arab Emirates - Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2007 |date=March 11, 2008 |website= US Department of State |url-status=live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230829152306/https://2001-2009.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2007/100608.htm |archive-date= Aug 29, 2023 }}</ref><ref>
{{cite web |url=https://2001-2009.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/2007/82807.htm |title=Trafficking in Persons Report: Country Narratives -- Countries Q through Z |date=12 June 2007 |publisher=U.S. Department of State |access-date=8 July 2012}}
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{{cite web |url=https://2001-2009.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/2004/33195.htm |title=Country Narratives: Near East |publisher=US Department of State |access-date=25 June 2017}}
</ref> There are reports of Saudi royal family members sexually abusing people.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.hrw.org/reports/2008/saudiarabia0708/5.htm | title="As if I Am Not Human": Abuses against Asian Domestic Workers in Saudi Arabia: V. Forced Labor, Trafficking, Slavery, and Slavery-like Conditions }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.gulfinstitute.org/2013/11/12/new-map-depicts-human-trafficking-cases-by-the-saudi-ruling-family/ | title=New Map Depicts Human Trafficking Cases by the Saudi Ruling Family | date=12 November 2013 }}</ref>

According to media reports from late 2014 the [[Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant]] (ISIL) was [[Slavery in 21st-century Islamism#By ISIS|selling Yazidis and Christian women as slaves]].<ref>
Fiona Keating, [http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/iraq-slave-markets-sell-women-10-attract-isis-recruits-1468506 "Iraq Slave Markets Sell Women for $10 to Attract Isis Recruits"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141110084401/http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/iraq-slave-markets-sell-women-10-attract-isis-recruits-1468506 |date=10 November 2014 }}, ''[[International Business Times]]'', 4 October 2014.
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Samuel Smith, [http://www.christianpost.com/news/un-report-on-isis-24000-killed-injured-by-islamic-state-children-used-as-soldiers-women-sold-as-sex-slaves-127761/ "UN Report on ISIS: 24,000 Killed, Injured by Islamic State; Children Used as Soldiers, Women Sold as Sex Slaves"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141017044402/http://www.christianpost.com/news/un-report-on-isis-24000-killed-injured-by-islamic-state-children-used-as-soldiers-women-sold-as-sex-slaves-127761/ |date=17 October 2014 }}, ''[[The Christian Post]]'', 9 October 2014.
</ref> According to Haleh Esfandiari of the [[Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars]], after ISIL militants have captured an area "[t]hey usually take the older women to a makeshift slave market and try to sell them."<ref>
{{cite news|last1=Brekke|first1=Kira|title=ISIS Is Attacking Women, And Nobody Is Talking About It|url=https://huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/08/isis-attacks-on-women_n_5775106.html?cps=gravity|access-date=11 September 2014|work=HuffPost|date=8 September 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140912003756/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/08/isis-attacks-on-women_n_5775106.html?cps=gravity|archive-date=12 September 2014|url-status=live}}
</ref> In mid-October 2014 the U.N. estimated that 5,000 to 7,000 Yazidi women and children were abducted by ISIL and sold into slavery.<ref>
Richard Spencer, [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/islamic-state/11160906/Isil-carried-out-massacres-and-mass-sexual-enslavement-of-Yazidis-UN-confirms.html "Isil carried out massacres and mass sexual enslavement of Yazidis, UN confirms,"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141113042653/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/islamic-state/11160906/Isil-carried-out-massacres-and-mass-sexual-enslavement-of-Yazidis-UN-confirms.html |date=13 November 2014 }} ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'', 14 October 2014
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In the digital magazine ''[[Dabiq (magazine)|Dabiq]]'', ISIL claimed religious justification for enslaving [[Yazidi]] women whom they consider to be from a heretical sect. ISIL claimed that the Yazidi are idol worshipers and their enslavement part of the old [[shariah]] practice of [[Wartime sexual violence|spoils of war]].<ref>
[[Reuters]], [http://www.newsweek.com/islamic-state-seeks-justify-enslaving-yazidi-women-and-girls-iraq-277100 "Islamic State Seeks to Justify Enslaving Yazidi Women and Girls in Iraq,"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141101221822/http://www.newsweek.com/islamic-state-seeks-justify-enslaving-yazidi-women-and-girls-iraq-277100 |date=1 November 2014 }} ''[[Newsweek]]'', 13 October 2014
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Athena Yenko, [http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/569402/20141013/islamic-state-dabiq-magazine-isis-slavery.htm#.VD7r9EnD_Gg "Judgment Day Justifies Sex Slavery Of Women – ISIS Out With Its 4th Edition Of Dabiq Magazine,"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150101063549/http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/569402/20141013/islamic-state-dabiq-magazine-isis-slavery.htm#.VD7r9EnD_Gg |date=1 January 2015 }}  ''[[International Business Times]]-Australia'', 13 October 2014
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Allen McDuffee, [https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/10/isis-confirms-and-justifies-enslaving-yazidis-in-new-magazine-article/381394/ "ISIS Is Now Bragging About Enslaving Women and Children,"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170830060025/https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/10/isis-confirms-and-justifies-enslaving-yazidis-in-new-magazine-article/381394/ |date=30 August 2017 }} ''[[The Atlantic]]'', 13 October 2014
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Salma Abdelaziz, [http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/12/world/meast/isis-justification-slavery/ "ISIS states its justification for the enslavement of women,"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170621204748/http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/12/world/meast/isis-justification-slavery |date=21 June 2017 }} [[CNN]], 13 October 2014
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Richard Spencer, [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/islamic-state/11158797/Thousands-of-Yazidi-women-sold-as-sex-slaves-for-theological-reasons-says-Isil.html "Thousands of Yazidi women sold as sex slaves 'for theological reasons', says Isil,"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180409195532/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/islamic-state/11158797/Thousands-of-Yazidi-women-sold-as-sex-slaves-for-theological-reasons-says-Isil.html |date=9 April 2018 }} ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'', 13 October 2014.
</ref> ISIL appealed to [[Islamic eschatology|apocalyptic beliefs]] and "claimed justification by a Hadith that they interpret as portraying the revival of slavery as a precursor to the end of the world."<ref>
Nour Malas, [https://online.wsj.com/articles/ancient-prophecies-motivate-islamic-state-militants-1416357441 "Ancient Prophecies Motivate Islamic State Militants: Battlefield Strategies Driven by 1,400-year-old Apocalyptic Ideas,"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141122235410/http://online.wsj.com/articles/ancient-prophecies-motivate-islamic-state-militants-1416357441 |date=22 November 2014 }} ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'', 18 November 2014 (accessed 22 November 2014)
</ref> In late September 2014, 126 Islamic scholars from around the Muslim world signed an [[open letter]] to the Islamic State's leader [[Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi]], rejecting his group's interpretations of the [[Quran|Qur'an]] and [[hadith]] to justify its actions.<ref>
{{cite news|title=Muslim Scholars Release Open Letter to Islamic State Meticulously Blasting Its Ideology|url=https://huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/24/muslim-scholars-islamic-state_n_5878038.html|work=HuffPost|date=24 September 2013|author=Lauren Markoe|agency=Religious News Service|access-date=25 September 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140925115145/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/24/muslim-scholars-islamic-state_n_5878038.html|archive-date=25 September 2014|url-status=live}}
</ref><ref name=christianpost-2014-09-25>{{cite news|last1=Smith|first1=Samuel|title=International Coalition of Muslim Scholars Refute ISIS' Religious Arguments in Open Letter to al-Baghdadi|url=http://www.christianpost.com/news/international-coalition-of-muslim-scholars-refute-isis-religious-arguments-in-open-letter-to-al-baghdadi-127032/|access-date=18 October 2014|work=[[The Christian Post]]|date=25 September 2014}}</ref> The letter accuses the group of instigating [[fitna (word)|fitna]]—sedition—by instituting slavery under its rule in contravention of the [[Islamic views on slavery#Modern interpretations|anti-slavery consensus]] of the [[ulama|Islamic scholarly community]].<ref name=OpenLetToAlBagh>{{cite web|title=Open Letter to Al-Baghdadi |url=http://lettertobaghdadi.com/index.php |date=September 2014 |access-date=25 September 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140925193528/http://lettertobaghdadi.com/index.php |archive-date=25 September 2014 }}</ref> In late 2014 ISIL released a pamphlet on the treatment of female slaves.<ref>
Amelia Smith (12 September 2014), [http://www.newsweek.com/isis-release-questions-and-answers-pamphlet-how-treat-female-slaves-290511 "ISIS Publish Pamphlet On How to Treat Female Slaves,"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141216011011/http://www.newsweek.com/isis-release-questions-and-answers-pamphlet-how-treat-female-slaves-290511 |date=16 December 2014 }} ''[[Newsweek]]''
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Greg Botelho (13 December 2014), [http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/12/world/meast/isis-justification-female-slaves/ "ISIS: Enslaving, having sex with 'unbelieving' women, girls is OK,"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141216004620/http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/12/world/meast/isis-justification-female-slaves/ |date=16 December 2014 }} [[CNN]]
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Katharine Lackey (13 December 2014), [https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/12/13/pamphlet-islamic-state-guidelines-sex-slaves/20359049/ "Pamphlet provides Islamic State guidelines for sex slaves,"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170921000131/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/12/13/pamphlet-islamic-state-guidelines-sex-slaves/20359049/ |date=21 September 2017 }} ''[[USA Today]]''
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Carey Lodge (15 December 2014), [http://www.christiantoday.com/article/islamic.state.issues.abhorrent.sex.slavery.guidelines.about.how.to.treat.women/44435.htm "Islamic State issues abhorrent sex slavery guidelines about how to treat women,"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141216005105/http://www.christiantoday.com/article/islamic.state.issues.abhorrent.sex.slavery.guidelines.about.how.to.treat.women/44435.htm |date=16 December 2014 }},''[[Christianity Today]]''
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Adam Withnall (10 December 2014), [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-releases-abhorrent-sex-slaves-pamphlet-with-27-tips-for-militants-on-taking-punishing-and-raping-female-captives-9915913.html "Isis releases 'abhorrent' sex slaves pamphlet with 27 tips for militants on taking, punishing and raping female captives,"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925193544/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-releases-abhorrent-sex-slaves-pamphlet-with-27-tips-for-militants-on-taking-punishing-and-raping-female-captives-9915913.html |date=25 September 2015 }} ''[[The Independent]]''
</ref> In January 2015, further rules for sex slaves were announced.<ref>
{{Cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-islamic-state-sexslaves-exclusive-idUSKBN0UC0AO20151229|title=Exclusive: Islamic State ruling aims to settle who can have sex with female slaves|author1=Jonathan Landay, Warren Strobel|author2=Phil Stewart|name-list-style=amp|date=29 December 2015|work=Reuters|access-date=2 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170623210953/http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-islamic-state-sexslaves-exclusive-idUSKBN0UC0AO20151229|archive-date=23 June 2017|url-status=live}}
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Selling women and children still occurs in the Middle East.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ndr.de/der_ndr/presse/mitteilungen/NDR-und-SWR-Terrorgruppe-IS-verdient-Millionen-durch-Loesegelder-fuer-jesidische-Sklavinnen-und-deren-Kinder,pressemeldungndr16578.html|title=NDR und SWR: Terrorgruppe IS verdient Millionen durch Lösegelder für jesidische Sklavinnen und deren Kinder|last=NDR|website=ndr.de|access-date=2016-03-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160414143137/https://www.ndr.de/der_ndr/presse/mitteilungen/NDR-und-SWR-Terrorgruppe-IS-verdient-Millionen-durch-Loesegelder-fuer-jesidische-Sklavinnen-und-deren-Kinder,pressemeldungndr16578.html|archive-date=14 April 2016|url-status=live}}
</ref> Yazidi women have also reported being raped and used as sexual slave by members of ISIS. In November 2015 it was reported that "around 2,000 women and girls are still being bought and sold in ISIS-controlled areas. The young become sex slaves and older women are beaten and used as house slaves, according to survivors and accounts from ISIS militants".<ref>
{{Cite web|url=http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/isis-uncovered/yazidi-women-tell-rape-enslavement-hands-isis-n462091|title=ISIS Sells Women 'for Just $10, or 10 Cigarettes'|date=30 November 2015 |publisher=NBC News|access-date=2016-03-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160401092457/http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/isis-uncovered/yazidi-women-tell-rape-enslavement-hands-isis-n462091|archive-date=1 April 2016|url-status=live}}
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Children have been used in the Persian Gulf as camel jockies. Most children are trafficked from Africa and South Asia. This practice has ceased in most areas though.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/uae-defies-ban-on-child-camel-jockeys-1914915.html | title=UAE defies ban on child camel jockeys | website=[[Independent.co.uk]] | date=3 March 2010 }}</ref>

====South Asia====
In 2006 the [[Ministry of Women and Child Development]] estimated that there are around 2.8 million [[sex worker]]s in India, with 35 percent of them entering the trade before the age of 18 years.<ref>
[http://www.expressindia.com/news/fullstory.php?newsid=86159 Around 2.8 mn prostitutes in India] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091023190945/http://www.expressindia.com/news/fullstory.php?newsid=86159 |date=23 October 2009 }} ''[[The Indian Express]]'', 8 May 2007.
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{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7376762.stm |title=BBC report on number of female sex workers in India |work=BBC News |date=1 May 2008 |access-date=8 July 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304234403/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7376762.stm |archive-date=4 March 2016 |url-status=live}}
</ref> The number of prostitutes has also doubled in the recent decade.<ref>
{{cite news |author=Upasana Bhat |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/south_asia/5140526.stm |title=Prostitution 'increases' in India |work=BBC News |date=3 July 2006 |access-date=8 July 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090909005740/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/south_asia/5140526.stm |archive-date=9 September 2009 |url-status=live}}
</ref> One news article states that an estimated 200,000 [[Nepal]]ese girls have been trafficked to red light areas of India.<ref>
{{cite news |date=15 February 2009 |title=Over 200,000 Nepali girls being trafficked to Indian red light areas |edition=English Xinhua |agency=Xinhua News Agency |url=http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-02/15/content_10821971.htm |url-status=dead |access-date=8 July 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121104165101/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-02/15/content_10821971.htm |archive-date=4 November 2012}}
</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=India |url=https://www.hrw.org/reports/1995/India.htm |website=www.hrw.org}}</ref> One report estimates that every year between 5,000 and 7,000 Nepalese girls are trafficked into the red-light districts in Indian cities, and that many of the girls may only be 9 or 10 years old.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/india.htm |title=India – Facts on Trafficking and Prostitution |publisher=Uri.edu |access-date=8 July 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120624061509/http://www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/india.htm |archive-date=24 June 2012}}</ref>

In January 2010, the Supreme Court of India stated that India is "becoming a hub" for large-scale child prostitution rackets. It suggested setting up of a special investigating agency to tackle the growing problem.<ref name="Indiabecoming2010">
{{cite news |date=29 January 2010 |title=India becoming a hub of child prostitution: SC |work=The Times of India |agency=PTI |url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/India-becoming-a-hub-of-child-prostitution-SC/articleshow/5513771.cms |url-status=live |access-date=29 January 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100201011427/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/India-becoming-a-hub-of-child-prostitution-SC/articleshow/5513771.cms |archive-date=1 February 2010}}
</ref> An article about the Rescue Foundation in ''New Internationalist'' magazine states that "according to Save the Children India, clients now prefer 10- to 12-year-old girls". The same article attributes the rising number of prostitutes believed to have contracted [[HIV]] in India's brothels as a factor in India becoming the country with the second-largest number of people living with HIV/AIDS in the world, behind South Africa.<ref>
{{cite web |url=http://www.newint.org/columns/makingwaves/2006/06/02/rescue-foundation/ |title=The Rescue Foundation – New Internationalist |publisher=Newint.org |access-date=8 July 2012 |date=2006-06-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021235449/http://www.newint.org/columns/makingwaves/2006/06/02/rescue-foundation/ |archive-date=21 October 2012 |url-status=live}}
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In Pakistan, young girls have been sold by their families to big-city brothel owners. Often this happens due to poverty or debt, whereby the family has no other way to raise the money than to sell the young girl.<ref name="Bushell">
{{cite web | url=http://www.ipoaa.com/pakistan_slave_trade.htm | title=PAKISTAN'S SLAVE TRADE:Afghan refugees sold into prostitution; indentured servitude flourishes;scenes from a slave auction | author=Andrew Bushell | access-date=28 March 2008 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080411054312/http://www.ipoaa.com/pakistan_slave_trade.htm | archive-date=11 April 2008 | url-status=live}}
</ref> Cases have also been reported where wives and sisters have been sold to brothels to raise money for gambling, drinking or drug addictions. Sex slaves are reportedly also bought by 'agents' in [[Afghanistan]] who trick young girls into coming to Pakistan for well-paying jobs. Once in Pakistan they are taken to brothels (called ''kharabat'') and forced into sexual slavery, some for many years.<ref>
Donald G. McNeil Jr. (1 August 2007) [https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/01/world/asia/01hiv.html Sex Slaves Returning Home Raise AIDS Risks, Study Says] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170806024702/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/01/world/asia/01hiv.html |date=6 August 2017 }}, ''New York Times''
</ref> Beardless young boys in Afghanistan may be sold as [[bacha bazi]] for use in dancing and prostitution ([[pederasty]]), and are sometimes valued in tens of thousands of dollars.<ref>
{{cite news|url=https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2012/04/09/afghanistans_dancing_boys_are_invisible_victims.html|title=Afghanistan's 'dancing boys' are invisible victims|work=Toronto Star|date=9 April 2012|access-date=11 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170806061301/https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2012/04/09/afghanistans_dancing_boys_are_invisible_victims.html|archive-date=6 August 2017|url-status=live}}
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====East and Southeast Asia====
{{See also|Sexual slavery in China}}
In Thailand, the Health System Research Institute reported in 2005 that children in prostitution make up 40% of Thailand's prostitutes.<ref name="unicri.it"/> It said that a proportion of prostitutes over the age of 18, including foreign nationals mostly from [[Myanmar]], China's [[Yunnan]] province, [[Laos]] and Cambodia, are also in some state of forced sexual servitude.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.unicri.it/wwd/trafficking/minors/countries.php |title=UNICRI Trafficking in Minors, Report on Thailand 2005 |access-date=2005-06-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051024072431/http://www.unicri.it/wwd/trafficking/minors/countries.php |archive-date=24 October 2005 }}</ref> In 1996, the police in Bangkok estimated that there were at least 5,000 Russian prostitutes working in Thailand, many of whom had arrived through networks controlled by Russian gangs.<ref>
{{cite web|url=http://www.asiapacificms.com/articles/russian_mafia/|title=The Russian Mafia in Asia - Asia Pacific Media Service|publisher=Asiapacificms.com|author=Bertil Lintner|date=3 February 1996|access-date=2 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130912064633/http://www.asiapacificms.com/articles/russian_mafia/|archive-date=12 September 2013|url-status=live}}
</ref> The Tourism Police Bureau in 1997 stated that there were 500 Chinese and 200 European women in prostitution in Bangkok, many of whom entered Thailand illegally, often through Burma and Laos. Earlier reports, however, suggest different figures. (Police Colonel Sanit Meephan, deputy chief of Tourism Police Bureau, "Thailand popular haunt for foreign prostitutes", ''The Nation'', 15 January 1997)

Part of the challenge in quantifying and eliminating sexual slavery in Thailand and Asia generally is the high rate of police corruption in the region. There are documented cases where Thai and other area law enforcement officials worked with human traffickers, even to the extent of returning escaped child sex slaves to brothels.<ref name="My Name Lon">{{cite book|last1=Sharron|first1=Derek|title=My Name Lon - You Like Me?|date=2005|publisher=Bangkok Book House|location=Bangkok, Thailand|isbn=978-974-92721-5-2|pages=[https://archive.org/details/mynamelonyoulike00dere/page/61 61...62]|edition=3rd 2005|url=https://archive.org/details/mynamelonyoulike00dere/page/61}}</ref>

Ethnic [[Rohingya]] women are kidnapped by Myanmar military and used as sex slaves.<ref>
Dhaka Tribune Adil Sakhawat Published at 01:20 AM 13 January 2017 [http://www.dhakatribune.com/world/south-asia/2017/01/13/survivors-claim-myanmar-army-taking-away-young-rohingya-women-sex-slaves/] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170810132432/http://www.dhakatribune.com/world/south-asia/2017/01/13/survivors-claim-myanmar-army-taking-away-young-rohingya-women-sex-slaves/|date=10 August 2017}}
</ref> Many Rohingya women were detained at a human trafficking syndicate transit camp in Padang Besar, Thailand, and treated like sex slaves.<ref>
NEWS MALAYSIA Rohingya women migrants used as sex slaves [http://womeninmigration.org/2015/06/rohingya-women-migrants-sexual-violence/] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170810092132/http://womeninmigration.org/2015/06/rohingya-women-migrants-sexual-violence/|date=10 August 2017}}
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