Empowering documentary amplifies trafficking survivors' voices with sensitivity
Forbes recently highlighted the empowering photography documentary "Philippines: Girls as a Commodity" by Matilde Simas. The series features a group of girls between the ages of 9 and 16, some rescued from cybersex dens and domestic slavery. Coerced by a fraudulent employment agency, some had been intercepted in the Manila Airport just before boarding a flight to Saudi Arabia. Simar was able to document their stories while visiting them at a local