Women trafficked into prostitution in Singapore
A report by the AFP highlights how women are promised jobs in Singapore but end up forcing to work as prostitutes.
Promised jobs as “entertainers” in pubs and restaurants, many instead find themselves virtually indentured as prostitutes, working to pay back the cost of getting here.
Women interviewed by AFP said they were locked in cramped apartments, given one meal a day and told they owed between 1,000 and 4,000 Singapore dollars (736-2,945 US) to their pimps for bringing them to the city-state.
The sex industry in Singapore — where prostitution is legal but pimping and public solicitation are not — is dominated by women from the Philippines, Thailand, China and Vietnam, industry sources said.
