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2025-01-30 05:36:08

Bangladesh: From Child Brides to Sex Trade


Samira parties with customers at a brothel. She was married at 12, trafficked to a brothel two weeks later.


A madam counts money in a brothel


Mia, 15, sits with her new 27-year-old groom during their wedding. ‘My family has been saving for my wedding for a very long time. I am a girl, so they always knew they would need to give me away.’ Five or six months ago, her parents found Mia a groom, a 27-year-old man who works in a garment factory. ‘I am nervous,’ Mia says, quietly. ‘I think I will miss my family’


Yasmin waits for customers


A girl shows her self harm scars


Women wait for customers


Habiba waits for customers. The 14-year-old has been in a brothel for three years


‘I ran away from my husband after seven days. He was only about 15 or 16, but he raped me so violently that one morning, when I knew he was asleep, I slipped out of the house as quietly as I could, and ran,’ Samira says. ‘I ran back to my house, but I was too frightened to go inside because I was covered in blood and bruises. My mum died when I was 11, so my brother and sister had arranged the marriage because they could not afford to look after me any more, and I knew leaving my husband would make them angry. So I asked a rickshaw driver to take me across (the town) to my friend’s house, but he told me I should be ashamed of myself, and dropped me off at the brothel instead’


A customer enters Yasmin’s room


A police officer stops to speak to a woman outside a brothel


A customer fights with girls at a brothel


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