Punarnawa Ashram, a Trafficking Shelter in Bihar, India

Background

200 years after the English Parliament passed the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act in 1807, more children than ever before languish in slavery, forced to work, under threat of violence and for no pay. A high percentage of these children are girls who have been trafficked for sex purposes and who are repeatedly traded on the female used body market where they are passed from man to man like a shred cigarette