Sold and resold, thousands of women and children are traded each year on Central Europe’s sex markets. It is a law enforcement issue but, reports Kristen Schweizer, the humanitarian consequences make it a Red Cross one as well. Vesna is just 14 years old, but the scars in her life are profound, deep reminders of…
Winter 2002-2003 Imre Kirdly passes the days sorting his plastic bottle collection, digging through garbage for food and watching wax melt from a single candle which lights the small abandoned shack he lives in. The 65-year-old’s dwelling is littered with bottles, rotten apples and old clothes. Pieces of plastic sheeting serve as a window and…