We Cry in Silence

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We Cry in Silence is written by Smita Sharma and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1732471193 (ISBN 10) and 9781732471191 (ISBN 13).

Photojournalist Smita Sharma started investigating child trafficking in 2015, when she met Meena, a young schoolgirl from West Bengal, India, who was seduced by a man who approached her while walking to school. With gifts and a promise of marriage, he enticed her to run away with him in just a few days. A week later Meena found herself locked in a brothel 1,000 miles from her home. We Cry In Silence is a result of a six year investigation by Sharma where she documented cross border trafficking of minor girls in India and Bangladesh for sex work. The book will also include a chapter on the under-reported issue of trafficking of indigenous girls for domestic servitude. Using darkness to bring her subjects' stories to light, Sharma creates a space for nuanced storytelling on this complex global issue of modern day slavery.A part of this project was commissioned and published globally as Stolen Lives by National Geographic Magazine in October 2020.Stolen Lives was awarded at the Amnesty International Media Awards in the photojournalism category in 2021.