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  • Rady (18) at a rehabilitation center of an NGO that deals with raped and sexually trafficked children. Rady was born in a refugee camp in Thailand and grew up with her father and her step mother together with their 6 other children. When she was around 14 her family returned to Cambodia to live in very pure conditions in villages in Kompong Thom and Banteay Meanchey provinces. When she was 15 and a half she was working in a bakery shop to help her family but the shop closed and she was left without a job. Poverty in combination with her father's alcoholism and her step-mother's gambling, created many conflicts between them and Rady and that made her feel unwanted. She then decided to leave secretly for Phnom Penh where she was planning to meet one aunt who she was hoping could help her find a job. On arrival in Phnom Penh, she discovered that she had lost her aunt's phone number and she started searching for her with the help of a moto-taxi driver. She couldn't find her and after spending a night with the driver's family she went to the river-front where as she was wandering by herself a Moslem woman approached her and offered to help her find a job. Rady followed her and the woman sold her to a brothel that was at "the building", a run-down appartment block occupied by squatters. At that time Rady didn't even know what a brothel was. There Rady's virginity was sold to a Japanese man. After that Rady stayed at the brothel for one and a half month but she wouldn't receive any more clients because she became sick and was constantly vomiting. The owner of the brothel didn't want to let her go because she had payed money to buy her, but eventually she did when Rady asked for help form a visiting NGO person who was distributing condoms there. Rady spent 2 years at that NGO and when she left to go back to her family, the NGO helped her start her own business by providing her with a machine with which she could produce juice from sugarcane. The business went well until she
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  • Rady (18) at a rehabilitation center of an NGO that deals with raped and sexually trafficked children. Rady was born in a refugee camp in Thailand and grew up with her father and her step mother together with their 6 other children. When she was around 14 her family returned to Cambodia to live in very pure conditions in villages in Kompong Thom and Banteay Meanchey provinces. When she was 15 and a half she was working in a bakery shop to help her family but the shop closed and she was left without a job. Poverty in combination with her father's alcoholism and her step-mother's gambling, created many conflicts between them and Rady and that made her feel unwanted. She then decided to leave secretly for Phnom Penh where she was planning to meet one aunt who she was hoping could help her find a job. On arrival in Phnom Penh, she discovered that she had lost her aunt's phone number and she started searching for her with the help of a moto-taxi driver. She couldn't find her and after spending a night with the driver's family she went to the river-front where as she was wandering by herself a Moslem woman approached her and offered to help her find a job. Rady followed her and the woman sold her to a brothel that was at "the building", a run-down appartment block occupied by squatters. At that time Rady didn't even know what a brothel was. There Rady's virginity was sold to a Japanese man. After that Rady stayed at the brothel for one and a half month but she wouldn't receive any more clients because she became sick and was constantly vomiting. The owner of the brothel didn't want to let her go because she had payed money to buy her, but eventually she did when Rady asked for help form a visiting NGO person who was distributing condoms there. Rady spent 2 years at that NGO and when she left to go back to her family, the NGO helped her start her own business by providing her with a machine with which she could produce juice from sugarcane. The business went well until she
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  • Vat Sarom (16) in a rehabilitation center of an NGO that deals with raped and sexually trafficked children. About one and a half year ago Sarom was living in a village bordering Thailand with her family. Her father had just had an accident stepping on a mine and her mother was pregnant, when a trafficker offered to help her get a job as a waitress at a restaurant in Siem Reap. She left her village and on the way the trafficker lied to her and instead brought her to Banteay Manchey province where she made her stay in a hotel, promising her that after that they would go to Siem Reap. There the woman trafficker sold her virginity to a man and forced her to stay with an other man for 3 nights. After that, instead of bringing her to Siem Reap, she sold her to a brothel at the village Sasda on the Thai border. There Sarom was locked in and forced to take 8-10 customers every night. To keep her awake and cheerful, the brother owner gave her drugs. These made her not wanting to eat or sleep and she was feeling happy without thinking any more. She was taking the drug every 3 days with the money she made of her tips. There were 14 girls in the brothel but only she and one more girl were underaged. She was afraid to escape because the owner of the brothel belonged to the military police and when some girls managed to escape, they were quickly caught and badly beaten when they were brought back. Eventually she managed to contact a relative of hers by borrowing a phone from a client and this way the operation for her rescuing started. On March 2007 and after she had spent 8 months in the brothel, the combination of a court decision, police pressure and the efforts of the NGO made the brothel owner release her. .Since then she is in the rehabilitation center, happy to be rescued but also very sad that all this happened, blaming herself for following the trafficker. She is trying to forget but she can not and instead she escapes in to her music, any music that she can hear from he
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  • Vat Sarom (16) in a rehabilitation center of an NGO that deals with raped and sexually trafficked children. About one and a half year ago Sarom was living in a village bordering Thailand with her family. Her father had just had an accident stepping on a mine and her mother was pregnant, when a trafficker offered to help her get a job as a waitress at a restaurant in Siem Reap. She left her village and on the way the trafficker lied to her and instead brought her to Banteay Manchey province where she made her stay in a hotel, promising her that after that they would go to Siem Reap. There the woman trafficker sold her virginity to a man and forced her to stay with an other man for 3 nights. After that, instead of bringing her to Siem Reap, she sold her to a brothel at the village Sasda on the Thai border. There Sarom was locked in and forced to take 8-10 customers every night. To keep her awake and cheerful, the brother owner gave her drugs. These made her not wanting to eat or sleep and she was feeling happy without thinking any more. She was taking the drug every 3 days with the money she made of her tips. There were 14 girls in the brothel but only she and one more girl were underaged. She was afraid to escape because the owner of the brothel belonged to the military police and when some girls managed to escape, they were quickly caught and badly beaten when they were brought back. Eventually she managed to contact a relative of hers by borrowing a phone from a client and this way the operation for her rescuing started. On March 2007 and after she had spent 8 months in the brothel, the combination of a court decision, police pressure and the efforts of the NGO made the brothel owner release her. .Since then she is in the rehabilitation center, happy to be rescued but also very sad that all this happened, blaming herself for following the trafficker. She is trying to forget but she can not and instead she escapes in to her music, any music that she can hear from he
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  • Rady (18) (on the right) at a rehabilitation center of an NGO that deals with raped and sexually trafficked children, during a psychological support class. The NGO that is run by christian Cambodians, is trying to help the girls by using the Bible to teach them how to live life and go through the problems they face.
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  • Giorgos Tirikos Ergas, one of the founding members of NGO Aggalia in Kaloni, talking with a refugee. He and his wife spend almost all of their free time taking care of refugees.
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  • Children in Sway Pa village. Sway Pa is a Vietnamese village 11 Km away from Phnom Penh that used to openly be a center of sex trafficking, especialy of underaged girls, even children. One year ago the police cracked down on the brothels but NGO people and journalists who recently visited undercover, found out that underaged girls are still be available on request. Rummors say that the place never stoped functioning but went undercover as many other similar places that the police tried to close down.
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  • Mother and child at the space of NGO Aggalia, in Kaloni village of Lesvos island. There refugees have some rest as they often have to walk from the beach where they arrive till the city of Mytilene where they can register and board a ferry to Athens. There is also a bus service but not so frequent so many end up walking for many hours.
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  • Street in Sway Pa village. Sway Pa is a Vietnamese village 11 Km away from Phnom Penh that used to openly be a center of sex trafficking, especialy of underaged girls, even children. One year ago the police cracked down on the brothels but NGO people and journalists who recently visited undercover, found out that underaged girls are still be available on request. Rummors say that the place never stoped functioning but went undercover as many other similar places that the police tried to close down.
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  • Building that used to be a brothel in Sway Pa village. Sway Pa is a Vietnamese village 11 Km away from Phnom Penh that used to openly be a center of sex trafficking, especialy of underaged girls, even children. One year ago the police cracked down on the brothels but NGO people and journalists who recently visited undercover, found out that underaged girls are still be available on request. Rummors say that the place never stoped functioning but went undercover as many other similar places that the police tried to close down.
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  • Karaoke bar in Phnom Penh. Karraoke bars, most times serve as a front for brothels often with underaged prostitutes.
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  • French middle-aged man with young prostitute he just picked up on the riverfront, on a boat-bar that every night cruses Tonle Sap river along Phnom Penh.
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  • Rady arriving at her outside their home in a remote location outside Sisophon city while her step-mother Jan Cum Saang is closing the gate of the piece of land where they live behind her.
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  • Rady ariving at her home in a remote location outside Sisophon city.
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  • Rady with her step-mother Jan Cum Saang, her brother Yort (7) (L) and her younger brother Heir (4) (R) outside their home in a remote location outside Sisophon city.
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  • 16 year old girl crying (middle) after her mother (R) invited me to photograph her in her room that she also uses to receive customers as a prostitute. The room is in a slam behind "the building", a run-down appartment block occupied by squatters. When she was 13 she was raped by a Khmer man and a bit after that she started taking customers as a prostitute. Virginity is still considered very important for a Cambodian woman, making it very difficult for her to get married to a Khmer man after loosing it. One year ago she also started taking crystal meth, a drug that is comonly used by prostitutes in Phnom Penh because it helps them stay awake the nights they go to bars to pick up foreign customers. The drug also makes her look deranged and over-emotional. .On the left, a neigbor woman that also works part time as a prostitute.
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  • Rady 's half brothers Yort (7) (R) and Heir (4) (L) on their bed, inside their home in a remote location outside Sisophon city.
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  • Street in Phnom Penh. The extreme poverty of Cambodia contrusted by expensive cars on its streets that often belong to corrupted government officials.
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  • boat-bars that every night cruse Tonle Sap river along Phnom Penh. Many prostitutes meet clients in those bars
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  • People living in a slam behind "the building", a run-down apartment block occupied by squatters. Many young girls that grow up in poverty in that slam are easily drown in to prostitution before they reach adulthood, either in the brothels situated in "the building" or they pick up their clients in bars and at the river-front of Phnom Penh. Cambodia
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  • Many signs on the national road that connects Phnom Penh and Battambang to Sieam Reap and the border with Thailand, campaign against the use of guns
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  • School-kids passing in front of an Anti-Pedophiliac advertisement in the outskirts of Poipek town, near the border with Thailand.
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  • Child trafficking and prostitution in Cambodia.Bar "Walkabout" in Phnom Penh is one of the bars where young and many times underaged prostitutes go to pick up foreign clients. The bar also offers rooms for its customers on the upper floor.
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  • Son Rathany (14) (R) and Rous Mach (15) (L) who are both working as prostitutes, in the room where they sleep and sometimes bring clients, in a slam behind the "building" in Phnom Penh. They both started working as prostitutes about half a year ago. Son after her family broke up and Rous after being tricked to start going to bars by a divorced female friend of hers. They take 1-2 clients a night. Rous goes mainly to "Martini Pub" a bar where foreign men go to pick up prostitutes. Son looks very young so it is more difficult for her to go in the bars but she refused to say how she finds customers.
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  • 12 year old girl that is working as a prostitute at a brothel in "the building", a run-down appartment block occupied by squatters. (face digitaly blured)
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  • Mother and child at a slam behind "the building", a run-down apartment block occupied by squatters. Many young girls that grow up in poverty in that slam are easily drown in to prostitution before they reach adulthood, either in the brothels situated in "the building" or they pick up their clients in bars and at the river-front of Phnom Penh. Cambodia
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  • Rady's step-mother Jan Cum Saang (37) hiding her crying face when she is asked to tell what she thinks of Rady's story. She is very sorry that their relationship was bad and because of it Rady run away and she is now affraid of her other younger daughter that is vaunerable as she also has to work to help her family. She lives with her family in very poor conditions, in a wooden hut outside Sisophon town.
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  • French guy (left) with a young prostitute, siting at the riverfront of Phnom Penh. The riverfront if a place where many Cambodians go for an evening out but also prostitutes look for customers and vice-versa.
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  • Street children at the riverfront nof Phnom Penh. The 3 of them with Pov (12) (front in blue) as their leader are looking either for gay customers whom they can offer to follow to their hotel rooms or straight customers for whom they can find girls of any age.
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  • Kanha Thy (22) together with her 3 years old son, in the room that she shares with 5 more people in a slam behind the "building". She grew up in the slum and when she was 14, her mother was sick and bleeding (possible because a miscarriage) and a neighbor taught her in to selling her virginity to a foreigner for 150 US$ so that she can buy medicine to help her. From the $150 she had to give him $50 for helping her. Since then she started working as a prostitute, going to bars to pick up foreign customers. To make herself look older she had to wear make-up and high hills and this way she could enter the bars with no problems. She got married when she was 19 but her husband doesn't make much money out of collecting scrub so she still works as a prostitute and continues even now that she is expecting her second child, by hiding her belly under layers of cloths.
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  • Rady 's half brothers Yort (7) (L) and Heir (4) (R) inside their home in a remote location outside Sisophon city.
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  • Street children by Tonle Sap river in Phnom Penh. The river-front is a place where many Cambodians go for a night out but also street children hung out. They sleep there do part time jobs like selling books to foreigners or begging and often get picked up by traffickers or pedophiles.
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  • Karaoke bar in Phnom Penh. Karraoke bars, most times serve as a front for brothels often with underaged prostitutes.
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  • Shanghai Bar: Hostes bar in Phnom Penh.
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  • Girl at riverfront of Tonle Sap river in Phnom Penh. The river-front is a place where many Cambodians go for a night out but also street children hung out. They sleep there do part time jobs like selling books to foreigners or begging and often get picked up by traffickers or pedophiles.
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  • Tarik Aljadoue (34) and his wife Samar Jamal (27) at the space that NGO Aggalia has organised as a temporary stop for refugees in Kaloni village, as they are on their way to Mytilene city. A local person drove them there the night before. The couple is from Alepo in Syria where Tarik was working as an IT engineer for a French owned oil company until they closed down their business there in 2011. Since 2011 he moved to Kafarhamra north of Alepo, as his house in Alepo was in a dangerous area. He got married to Samar one year ago and they were waiting to see what will happen to their country. 6 months ago internet was cut so it was difficult to learn any news of what was really happening. Local TV was only broadcasting propaganda from different armies. On Friday one week ago, they decided to find a safe country to have their children and leave Syria where they saw no work and no future as they could not see the end of this war. They want to try to reach Germany or any other European country where they can find work. <br />
Their trip started from Alepo to Tartus by bus, then on an other bus to a port from where they boarded a ship for one and a half day to Toshojo port (Tasucu port?) in Turkey near Mersin. From there they took a bus for 13 hours to Izmir but before they arrive they heard that there were police checks in Izmir and as soon as they arrived, they boarded an other bus for 9 hour to Istanbul. There they stayed for two days until the smugglers told them that they could start their trip to Greece. They payed 1250 USD each and after two days, at 8 am, they met the smugglers at a metro station, they boarded a bus with 60 people and no AC and they traveled to a location near Izmir. The trip lasted for 7 hours and it was unbearably hot. When they got off the bus somewhere near the sea, they were told to switch off their mobile phones and walk for one hour until they reached the sea. There there were three dinghy boats with engines and 33 to 40 people would board on each
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  • Suda (18) was born in the Akha village Huei Naam Kun that is located in the mountains near Chiang Rai. She has been living at the premices of the NGO Children of the Golden Triangle for the last 8 years so that she can go to school, and hopes to go to University and become a mathematics or English teacher.
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  • Akha girls Pratana (17) (left) and Aranya (17) (right) have both been living at the premises of the NGO "Children of The Golden Triangle" for about 9 years. They both want to become teachers so that they can go back to their villages and teach their people.
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  • Karen girl reading a translated Japanese manga inside one of the library buildings of Mae La refugee camp. The library is supported by "Shanti Volunteer Association" (www.sva.or.jp), a Japanese NGO. Burmese refugee camp "Mae La" is north of border-town Mae Sot and lies along the Thai-Burmese border on the side of Thailand. Approximately 50,000 people live there. 38,167 was the official number of registered people in November 2009, according to the Thailand Burma Border Consortium (TBBC), and the rest are unregistered or people who come and go.
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  • Mentaly disturbed man with his trophy, outside the premices of an NGO in Airin..The old name of the area now called Airin, was untill 1966 Kamagasaki and many people still call it like that. .Kamagasaki (????) is an old place name for a part of Nishinari-ku in Osaka, Japan. Airin-chiku (???????) became the region's official name in May, 1966.Sections of four different towns: Nishinari-ku Taishi (??????), Haginochaya (?????), Sanou (???), North Hanazono (????) and Tengachaya (?????) are collectively known as the Kamagasaki region..Kamagasaki as a place name existed until 1922. Kamagasaki is known as Japan's largest slum, and has the largest day laborer concentration in the entire country. 30,000 people are estimated to live in every 2,000 meter radius within this region. An accurate count of occupants has never been produced, even in the national census, due to the large population of day laborers who lack permanent addresses..
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  • Akha child wearing a Santa Claus hat at the premises of the NGO "Children of the Golden Triangle", in Chiang Rai province
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  • Akha childred having their lunch at the premises of the NGO "Children of the Golden Triangle", in Chiang Rai province
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