Yangon sex workers
Sex workers wait for customers near the luxury Sedona Hotel in Yangon. (Frontier)

Yangon sex workers risk violence to feed their families

In the economic downturn following the coup, a growing number of women have turned to sex work, where they struggle for income and face assault and extortion by criminal gangs.

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