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Pimps and traffickers prey on vulnerable Rohingya girls

Season 2018 Episode 143 | 8m 40s

Since the majority of Rohingya refugees are women and girls, many of whom are poor and without a male breadwinner, they are vulnerable to traffickers looking to make fast money in the Bangladeshi sex trade. Special correspondent Tania Rashid and videographer Phil Caller take us inside the dark world where young girls suffer horrific treatment.

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