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Don't Go Abroad Girl!

At the age of 16, Aya was sold into slavery. The unveiling of her fate and others like her, intertwined with the testimonies of human traffickers, offers an unsettling view of cont

Featuring brutally candid testimony, Don't Go Abroad Girl! is a chilling expose of Cambodia's human trafficking underworld and an eye-opening look at the complex cycle of poverty, despair and greed that fuels this brutal modern slave trade. More than half a million Cambodians work abroad and a staggering third of these have been sold as slaves. Most are young women, held prisoner and forced to work in horrific conditions, sometimes as prostitutes, in Malaysia, Thailand and Taiwan. This film tells the story of a former slave, whose return home is greeted with bitterness and scorn by her mother; a successful trafficker who works with local recruiters to funnel a steady stream of poor and illiterate young people across borders; and a mother who has sold to the recruiter not only local girls, but also her own daughter.

50 minutes

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Sun 5 Mar 2017 20:10GMT

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