The shoe of a young woman prostituting in a gang infested neighborhood on July 18, 2012 in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Honduras now has the highest per capita murder rate in the world and Tegucigalpa is plagued by violence, poverty, homelessness and sexual assaults and prostitution.
Bar Code Tattoo
Madrid Prostitution Ring tattooed a bar code on 19 year old girl.
The bar code served as a form of identity for the woman and as certificate of “ownership” by one prostitution ring, and beneath the bar code was also tattooed the amount of money she owed the ring, police said.
Istanbul, Turkey. Documentary photographer Mimi Chakarova gained entry to an illegal brothel in Istanbul. She managed to photograph a 52 year-old john grabbing a girl who had been trafficked from Eastern Europe.
Legal Nevada Brothel
Network in the North Against Prostitution and Violence
The Sami have organized against the institution of prostitution. The Sami are indigenous peoples in what is now Scandinavia, Finland, Lapland, and Russia.
Coalition Against Trafficking in Women
Artist Mona Mark (New York, NY) created this image for the Coalition
Against Trafficking in Women. Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 1995.