Sacrifice
- Document number
- 1593
- Date
- 1998
- Title
- Sacrifice
- Author/publisher
- Ellen Bruno
- Availability
- LSI library
- Document type(s)
- Multimedia,
- Keywords
- Thailand, Burma, Forced labour, Prostitution, Sexual exploitation, Documentary, Women's rights; Women; Control and regulation of prostitution, Protection, Punishable forms of prostitution,
- Summary
- Each year thousands of young girls are recruited from rural Burmese villages to work in the sex industry in neighbouring Thailand. Held for years in debt bondage in illegal Thai brothels, they suffer extreme abuse by pimps, clients, and the police. The trafficking of Burmese girls has soared in recent years as a direct result of political repression in Burma. Human rights abuses, war and ethnic discrimination has displaced hundreds of thousands of families, leaving families with no means of livelihood. An offer of employment in Thailand is a rare chance for many families to escape extreme poverty. Sacrifice examines the social, cultural, and economic forces at work in the trafficking of Burmese girls into prostitution in Thailand. It is the story of the valuation and sale of human beings, and the efforts of teenage girls to survive a personal crisis born of economic and political repression. Place order: http://www.brunofilms.com/orderform.html Contact: info@transitmedia.net
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