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Daughters of Darkness
Photographer Shehzad Noorani does a photo essay of Kandupatti, a brothel in Dhaka - the capital city of Bangladesh. The place has been both a home and workplace, for over 200 years, to at least 1,000 women involved in the sex trade.The photographer captures haunting images from the everyday life of these women who are only seen as sexual objects.
Tags: brothels; prostitutes; sex trade; Dhaka; Kandupatti
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Bitter Harvest
Ms. looks at the sex trade in Thailand where prostitution is a large part of the exonomy.
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The Ugly Americans: Child Sex Tourism
KOMO-TV reports about "the tragedy of child sex tourism, and Americans' involvement in it... examples of American tourists who traveled abroad to third-world countries to have sex with children... we got a tip from Central America that someone in our region, the Pacific Northwest, was doing more than just having sex with children. Child prostitution opponents had heard he was selling girls, some as young as 14, for sex. We traveled to the man's club in Honduras and discovered the tip was true. We also discovered that man had been a registered sex offender in the US."
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Girls for Sale
ABC News Primetime Live's investigation of the global trafficking in women and go inside a sophisticated network where human lives are always for sale. It is estimated that one million women worldwide are bought and sold every year in countries from Europe to Asia to the Middle East and even in the United States. This investigation leads to Israel, one of the biggest per capita markets for women from the former Soviet Union, where the authors go inside the largest brothel in the country and confront the owner.
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From India to Brazil to the fields of North and South Carolina, "Turning Point" investigated slavery in modern times, and the efforts being made to stop it. In India the program documented conditions in carpet factories where children who have been sold or abducted work without pay and against their will. The documentary recorded the rescue of 126 children, and traced the carpets they were weaving to the American market. In Brazil, the program provided an inside look at a brothel in the Amazon where teen age girls are tricked into a life of prostitution. In the United States "Turning Point" documented the stories of homeless people lured to migrant work camps where they were held in virtual bondage.
Tags: Andrew Tkach; Don Kladstrup; tape; 21 pages
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Newsday (New York) revealed that Serbian authorities lured United Nations' soldiers in the Sarajevo region into a Serb-run brothel where they made Muslim and Croat women available for prostitution; in direct violation of their mandate, the soldiers never reported the brothel or a concentration camp immediately behind it, Nov. 1, 1993.
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No title (id: 365)
Nevada Appeal (Carson City) finds a brothel owner offered to pay the salary of a sheriff's deputy and assured him he would be promoted to sergeant, July 1978.
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