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Tamang girls have been victims of trafficking for generations. Today, many Tamang girls are aware of the “work” they will have to do when they go to Bombay. With the innate optimism of youth, they think that they can some day return with wealth. Sindupalchowk, Nepal.
COVERT Hotel workers taking break on the beach. In Sri Lanka female sex work is covert, and many women such as these use straight jobs as a covert for soliciting clients. Colombo, Sri Lanka.
WAITING FOR CLIENTS Playing with a baby, looking in the mirror, Nepali teen sex workers and a madam wait for client’s midday on Falkland Road. A thriving center of the flesh trade catering mostly to migrant workers and a destination of thousands of trafficked children and women. “In this place, we take care of each other. If a girl is sick or needs any kind of help, everybody contributes. We are all in the same boat. We have no mothers or fathers or family. We only have each other,” says Jyoti, a fifteen-year-old Nepali sex worker. Falkland Road, Kamathipura, Mumbai, India.
DESTINATION MUMBAI: FALKLAND ROAD The brothel district of Kamathipura began in the 17th century by British authorities to satisfy the carnal demand of Her Majesty’s troops. Soon Chinese, Anglo-Indian, French and other “white” women stocked flourishing bordellos on a street once known to natives as “Safed Galli, or “white alley.” Nepali women from regions of Sindupalchowk began arriving after World War II, increasing to trafficked women from throughout the country by the 1980’s. A hierarchy of pimps, brothel owners, organized criminals; police and politicians share the profits of this criminally controlled sex industry. Kamathipura, Mumbai, India.
Nepalese girls sex worker who have been rescued by "Maiti Nepal" (The word Maiti signifies the natal home of girls.) have chosen to be employed with police at the check post between Nepal-India border, helping to identify alleged traffickers of young Nepalese girls. Nepal-India border, Nepal.
Nepalese girls sex worker who have been rescued by "Maiti Nepal" (The word Maiti signifies the natal home of girls.) have chosen to be employed with police at the check post between Nepal-India border, helping to identify alleged traffickers of young Nepalese girls. Nepal-India border, Nepal.
A burnt victim. Street walker in Dillibazar, she was raped and doused with kerosene by one of her clients. She died a week later. To the left is Anuradha Koirala , Director of Maiti Nepal (The word Maiti signifies the natal home of girls.). Dillibzaar, Kathmandu, Nepal.
Sex workers riding the bus to Kathmandu with their policemen escorts dressed as civilians. Fearing what they will face in Kathmandu, and reprisals from their pimps if they return to India, the girls take in the protective attention from their police escorts. Policemen take full advantage of their last free hug or feel before arriving in Kathmandu.
Nepali sex worker and a madam wait for clients in front of the ÔcagesÕ in MumbaiÕs working-class brothel district. Contrary to the myth of Nepali girls being coveted for their grace and beauty, they are imported in India because they are cheap. Life is nightmare to those who have been trafficked into sex trade and KamathipuraÕs Falkland road is dead end for many Nepalese girls. Falkland road, Mumbai, India.
Nepalese girls sex worker who have been rescued by "Maiti Nepal" (The word Maiti signifies the natal home of girls.) have chosen to be employed with police at the check post between Nepal-India border, helping to identify alleged traffickers of young Nepalese girls.
Nepal-India border, Nepal.
Nepalese girls sex worker who have been rescued by "Maiti Nepal" (The word Maiti signifies the natal home of girls.) have chosen to be employed with police at the check post between Nepal-India border, helping to identify alleged traffickers of young Nepalese girls. Nepal-India border, Nepal.
Nepalese girls sex worker who have been rescued by "Maiti Nepal" (The word Maiti signifies the natal home of girls.) have chosen to be employed with police at the check post between Nepal-India border, helping to identify alleged traffickers of young Nepalese girls.
Nepal-India border, Nepal.
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