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35,000 Child Prostitutes in Bangladesh

Categories: South Asia, Bangladesh, Human Rights, Women & Gender, Youth

Amader Kotha [1], a site dedicated to women's issues in Bangladesh reports that at least 35,000 children are being exploited sexually on a commercial basis in the country. More than half of them live in the official red light districts of the country and are often forced to enter the profession that their mothers have been in.