Global Issues
Brunei Darussalam
• Destination, and to a lesser extent, a source and transit country for men and women who are subjected to forced labor and forced prostitution.
• Law explicitly states that sexual intercourse by a man with his wife, as long as she is not under 13 years of age, is not rape.
• Reports of women forced into prostitution in Brunei, and that women arrested for prostitution attest to having been victims of trafficking.
Sources: U.S. Department of State 2010 Human Rights Report, U.S. Department of State Trafficking in Persons Report 2011