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Sex Workers: Lives in the Shadows

Kidnapped and trafficked twice - a sex worker's life in Sierra Leone.

More than 20,000 women are estimated to be engaged in sex work in Sierra Leone. For four years, film-maker Tyson Conteh was given unprecedented access to document the dangers that sex workers face in his hometown of Makeni. Tyson exposes the threats of trafficking, violence, drug addiction, disease and even death that this vulnerable community navigate daily.

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10 months left to watch

50 minutes