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Fallen Angels: Sex Workers of South Asia

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RESCUED
Annuradha Koirala (right) comforts a Nepali girl just rescued from the Mumbai brothels. The girls have been transported to the Nepal-India border and are being take by bus to Kathmandu, where they will be reunited with their families, if possible. Eighteen of the 28 rescued girls are HIV-positive.
Central Region, Nepal.

BUSTED
Convicted trafficker Rajan (center) is booked on evidence from two of his Nepali
victims, Jamuna (left) and Jyoti (right, all name changed). Jamuna spent three years
in brothels of Mumbai, India, before being rescued in 1998. Rajan trafficked Jyoti’s
sister in the ealy 1990s, and later sold Jyoti to the same brothel.
Hetauda jail, Central Nepal.

TRANSPORTATION SECTOR
In South Asia, perhaps more women then men are the ‘mules’ that transport girls
across national borders. The three women on the left were arrested in 1999 for the
alleged trafficking of Nepali girls to Mumbai.
Hanuman Dhoka jail, Kathmandu, Nepal.

PRECIOUS LIFE
Without the protection of madams, peers and pimps usually fournd in brothel
communities, ‘floating’ prostitutes are at high risks of serious abuse and HIV/AIDS.
This floating prostitute was gang raped, doused with kerosene and burned on a city
street. Despite the efforts of physicians and the rehabilitation center Maiti Nepal. She
died two weeks later.
Kahtmandu, Nepal

RETRIBUTION
At Maiti Nepal, a Nepali NGO that rescues and rehabilitates trafficked girls,
previously-arrested madams and traffickers confront their former victims face-toface.
Here, a girl threatens to beat the madam that imprisoned her. Maiti Nepal
Director, Anuradha Koirala, looks on.
Kathmandu, Nepal.

BEWARE OF TRAFFICKERS
At an awareness-raising activity supported by a Nepali NGO, young village girls dance and sing awareness songs,. Girls in the villages of this part of Nepal are at high risk of being trafficked.
Sindhupalchok, Nepal

VOICE AGAINST ABUSE
The young and at risk are often the most effective voices in the war against commercial sexual exploitation. Schoolgirls in Nepal participate in an anti-trafficking demonstration.
Kathmandu, Nepal

FROM EXPLOITED TO EMPOWERED
Women from the Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee, a collective of sex workers in Bengal, volunteer their time to give non-formal education classes to young children at risk.
Calcutta, India

RESCUED
Annuradha Koirala (right) comforts a Nepali girl just rescued from the Mumbai brothels. The girls have been transported to the Nepal-India border and are being take by bus to Kathmandu, where they will be reunited with their families, if possible. Eighteen of the 28 rescued girls are HIV-positive.
Central Region, Nepal.

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