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FEATURE
“Eva,” an Albanian woman who was trafficked to Italy and forced to work as a prostitute. She has been in hiding from her traffickers for over eight months and is now in a shelter for trafficked women near Tirana, the Capital of Albania.
Streets of
DESPAIR
Ruthless criminal syndicates prey on the world’s most vulnerable women and children, trafficking them across borders and forcing them into lives of servitude. Ed Vulliamy examines the impact of this modern-day slavery on women trafficked into the sex trade. Ed Vulliamy • Photographs by Andrew Testa/Panos
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