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Tin Girls - Niñas de Hojalata

Document number
1554
Date
2003
Title
Tin Girls - Niñas de Hojalata
Author/publisher
Miguel Bardem
Availability
LSI library
Document type(s)
Multimedia,
Keywords
Documentary, Nepal, India, Human trafficking, Slave Labour, Sexual Exploitation, Trafficking process, Recruitment, Transportation, Transit, Transfer, Consent, Women's rights; Women; Control and regulation of prostitution, Protection, Punishable forms of prostitution, Prostitution; Sex work; Clients, Abolitionism; New Abolitionism; Prohibitionism; Regulationism, Children
Summary
Every year in Nepal, 12,000 girls are sent to work in brothels all over India. Tin Girls is a 55 minute documentary exposing the trade of women and girls for prostitution in Nepal and India. This film explores the intricacies of the markets that support the economy of the sex trade. It presents the story of Bimala who returned to Nepal after years of sex-slavery in India. Tin Girls, one of the Valor Humano (Human Value) series of documentaries produced by Canal Plus, was first inspired by the magazine feature When No Means Never Again, written by Chelo Alvarez with the help of Anjana Shakya, President of HimRights, and published by Planeta Humano magazine, Spain. Contact and further information can be obtained via: http://www.innerlens.com/masalaproject/tingirlsdoc.html as well as masalaproject@sbcglobal.net
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