Katarina Adler
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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…
The production of opium in Pakistan has plummeted thanks to a 15-year eradication programme. The shattering irony is that in the same 15 years Pakistan has gone from a nation of almost no drug users to the one with the most heroin addicts in the word. Martin Adler follows the addicts to the slums and sewers of Pakistan's cities and analyses the social traumas induced by drug addiction. Still more…
The Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s hit Indonesia hardest of all. Former professionals across the country were thrown into crippling poverty, with many reduced to picking scraps from rubbish dumps to survive. The film catches the early signs of a groundswell of criticism and action against President Suharto, but there is more than just the prospect of popular revolution. Many Indonesians…
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