Slavery is shockingly common in the world today: in homes, factories, farms and brothels on every continent except Antarctica.

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Born in the brothels of Buenos Aires, tango embodies, perhaps more than anything else, the brooding sensuality and passion of the Argentine people.

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Toulouse-Lautrec is represented by a striking group of color lithographs inspired by everything from brothels to popular entertainers to the circus.

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So the picture of 1840s Hamburg ranges beyond the brothels on whose saloon pianos the young boy famously earned his keep, and takes in the mercantile city's attitude to culture.

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For better or worse, it is a Latin American country, home of the tango (which originated in brothels and gauchos, even if it was later Italianised) as well as of the opera.

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Previous winners who were shortlisted for the Decade Child Rights Heroes prize included Maiti Nepal who fights the trafficking of girls from Nepal to India, where they are forced to work in brothels.

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From the queue for visas at the airport to the hairdressing salons in the south-west, the brothels in Istanbul and the ski resorts near Erzurum, it is clear that these two countries are happily investing in Turkey whereas others stay away.

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