Definitions
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- noun Plural form of
brothel .
Etymologies
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Examples
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In 2004, he “bought the freedom” of two women working in brothels in Poipet, Cambodia with the intention of returning them to their villages.
One thing Obama can ignore in his first week in office « Bound, Not Gagged
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It is common in brothels for girls to be consistently beaten until they smile for potential customers.
Tabby Biddle: Nicholas Kristof Helping End Girl and Women Slavery
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The report alleges that “illegal Myanmar migrants deported from Malaysia were often turned over to human traffickers and forced to work in brothels, fishing boats and restaurants in Thailand if they had no money to purchase their freedom.”
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But nearly five years ago, when I had a chance meeting with a photographer who was working undercover to document the presence of young girls in brothels overseas, I knew immediately that I wanted to do what no one else had done so far: tell this heartbreaking story from the point of view of one individual girl.
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It is common in brothels for girls to be consistently beaten until they smile for potential customers.
Tabby Biddle: Nicholas Kristof Helping End Girl and Women Slavery
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They are just as much human trafficking victims as the Vietnamese women enslaved in brothels in Thailand or the Guatemalan girl held in a home in El Paso.
Global Voices in English » USA: Activism to Stop Human Trafficking
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It is common in brothels for girls to be consistently beaten until they smile for potential customers.
Tabby Biddle: Nicholas Kristof Helping End Girl and Women Slavery
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To say it was some kind of ploy to gang up on the brothels is sad and probably untrue.
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The question we should be asking the brothels is “How can I be of service?”
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That there is a problem with women being brought here with the specific aim of effectively enslaving them in brothels, these often being run by very nasty criminal gangs of East European origin, there is no doubt.
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