Girls from Chaka Street
- Document number
- 1575
- Date
- 1998
- Title
- Girls from Chaka Street
- Author/publisher
- Antra Cilinska, Emily Marlow & Jenny Richards, Television Trust for the Environment
- Availability
- LSI library
- Document type(s)
- Multimedia,
- Keywords
- Sexual exploitation, Forced labour, Prostitution, Documentary, Latvia, Sex tourism, Pornography, Domestic violence, Prostitution, Rape, Sexual harassment, Best Interests Principle, Child Victims of Trafficking, Separated Migrant Children, Unaccompanied minors, Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), Child protection systems, Child Trafficking, Child Prostitution, Child Pornography,
- Summary
- In 1996 Eva was driven into the forest, stripped and gang-raped by 14 men who left her for dead. It was, she said, just one of the occupational hazards of working as a prostitute in Latvia. The flourishing sex industry in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia first took off when the Baltic countries gained independence from the Soviet Union and the economics crashed. Underage girls - earning more in a night on the street that a trained doctor does in a month - face physical and psychological risks, and Mafia involvement is growing. Girls from Chaka Street look at the sex industry in the Baltic countries. It shows the forces that drive young girls onto the streets, the physical and psychological risks they run, and the growing involvement of the Mafia in lucrative sex trafficking. This film is one of a four part series called "A Question of Rights". Place order: http://www.tve.org/sisters/girlsfrom.html.
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