Finding freedom: How Kan and her daughter escaped the sex industry
Kan never planned on becoming a sex worker. She used to work in construction, but her small wages were never enough to provide for her and her teenage daughter. Eventually, she became so desperate that she entered the sex industry. We’ve changed both her and her...
Families force their daughters into the sex industry
What do you think of when you hear the word “trafficking”? Before I started visiting India and Thailand, I just pictured the horror stories you hear in the news, the ones where girls are abducted from their hometowns and sold into another country. But now my...
This 12-year-old is being groomed for the sex industry
Brinda doesn’t squirm as her mother runs a comb through her long, dark hair. She doesn’t object to the makeup, the jewelry, or the fresh change of clothes. Because Brinda knew this day would eventually come. “I knew what was in store for me when I was 5 years old,”...
Bar owners in Thailand find new ways to exploit girls
Although Thailand’s booming red-light districts were shut down with the pandemic first hit, they reopened during the summer. And bar owners found new and more exploitative ways to make money off the girls while tourism was down. “Traffickers, pimps, and the Enemy are...
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