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Slavery in the Sex Trade

A lady sells flowers and floating lamps to a tourist during Aarti, a prayer offered to the River Ganges and a major nightly tourist attraction, along the banks of the holy river Ganges in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India on 15 November 2013. Guria runs a boat school targeting the boatmen's children, who are exposed and vulnerable to exploitation when they sell flowers and floating candles to the millions of tourists who come to Varanasi.

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A lady sells flowers and floating lamps to a tourist during Aarti, a prayer offered to the River Ganges and a major nightly tourist attraction, along the banks of the holy river Ganges in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India on 15 November 2013. Guria runs a boat school targeting the boatmen's children, who are exposed and vulnerable to exploitation when they sell flowers and floating candles to the millions of tourists who come to Varanasi.