One Way Ticket to Hell

Bangladesh | 1998

We travel with Farida back to her father's home. The last time she saw him was when he sold her into prostitution. She was nine years old. She was smuggled into India and made to work in a Calcutta brothel. Every year thousands of young girls from Bangladesh are sold to work as sex slaves in India. Fear of AIDS drives the trade - as Muslims, Bangladeshi girls are seen as cleaner than Indian women…