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17 hours a day for 420 consecutive days work, denial of human rights, institutionalized exploitation, profiteering agencies and sexual abuse. An account of my time is Singapore.
Little Sister
"At Pondok Madonna, the shelter of Solidaritas Migran Scalabrini (SMS) all the women call me Dedeh or Little Sister. I do not know when I was born and which year I was born. According to my father I was one when my mother died.  Then when I was three, my father remarried and I lived with my stepmother and her child in Lampung. My father had to work in Jakarta so I only got to see him once a year. "
Sex in the Woodlands...Suk's Story
"I was ashamed of them and I left to stay with a friend. My friend then introduced me to nightclubbing where I learned to smoke, drink and consume drugs. Then I stopped schooling and at 19 became a sex worker in Bangkok."
Marilon Gacuya
"He molested me many times, touching and pressing my butt. I protested. But he persisted.  Then one day, when I was in the room ironing the clothes, he forced himself upon me, hugging and groping my body."
Strip Searched: Mary's Story
Mary came to Singapore from the Philippines to work as a domestic worker, but instead found herself repeatedly exploited and abused.
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