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Foreign military personnel contribute to the demand for trafficking by frequenting the clusters of brothels, massage parlors and dance clubs which all serve as popular vehicles for illicit sexual transactions, often with young children. 16.

E/CN.6/2013/NGO/55 12-61886 4 Recommendations We call on the Commission on the Status of Women to urge Member States to: (a) Strengthen the enforcement of internationally agreed commitments designed to prevent human trafficking, protect victims and prosecute traffickers, particularly the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime; (b) Urge the 39 Member States that have not ratified the Protocol to do so immediately; (c) Increase development aid, especially aid that is targeted to the creation of legitimate income-generating possibilities for women and families with children and to educate and empower girls; (d) Intensify efforts to prosecute people who exploit children in brothels, massage parlours, strip clubs and in street prostitution; (e) Promote sanctions against law enforcement agencies that refuse to enforce laws against trafficking and dismantle criminal networks that profit from the sale of human beings; (f) Recommend more stringent sanctions on the publication or transmission of pornography in electronic or paper form; (g) Publicize the illegal nature and penalties for trafficking, and promote media campaigns dealing with human rights for children; (h) Provide gender-centred education and information/awareness campaigns to warn children about the dangers of trafficking, and campaigns targeting males, to strike at the “demand” side of the issue (United Nations Population Fund); (i) Encourage Governments to share best practices in the production of informational material and sensitization programmes for teachers, parents, health- care workers, and law enforcement agencies; (j) Support the provision of safe places and treatment for child victims/survivors of trafficking, as well as programmes to reintegrate them into their society, as described in the draft basic principles on the right to an effective remedy for trafficked persons (see A/66/283, annex).

Whitaker reports: IIA social worker in Bangkok, speaking on behalf of a non-governmental organization, The Minority Rights Group, that considerable numbers of young Thai children are sold each year for a price of 150 to 1,000 baht ($7.50 to $50) in a professionally organized market that supplies factories, brothels and massage parlours. The witness testified that more than 500 children each week were changing hands for money at Bangkok railway station alone from professional 'child catchers' who exploit poverty in the rural areas.