Fighting Child Prostitution:
A Red Light for Traffickers

Photographs by Naveen Kishore
Edited by Meredith Lobel

Some 200,000 children and women sell themselves or are sold for sex in Thailand, and about one-third of the females are minors, according to UNICEF. Each year, Sompop Jantraka has saved hundreds of girls from being sold into Thailand's brothels through his Development and Education Program for Daughters and Communities (DEPDC).

For his efforts, Jantraka has been twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. He was featured as part of a group of "Asian Heroes" that included Burmese Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi in the April 2002 Asian edition of Time Asia magazine.

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Rescuing children from sexual exploitation . . .

. . . while mobilizing communities to fight trafficking