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Paolo Pellegrin
Magnum Photos

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Tomas Munita
Freelance for The New York Times

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Paolo Marchetti
Freelance

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Vincent Yu
Associated Press

Third Place
Paolo Marchetti
Freelance

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China, in May 2012, the city of Ruili, on the border with Burma. A Burmese girl in a nightclub where he usually works as a prostitute. The girls dancing on a stage, under which customers who crowd then choose the entertainer of choice. is in this city that occurred the first outbreak of AIDS in the Middle Kingdom, Ruili and still continues to have the highest rate of HIV across the country. Ruili is the point of collection and 'sell' the young Burmese convinced with promises of jobs or forced by Chinese gang to cross the border and marry Chinese bachelors, or worse into prostitution in nightclubs and in many massage centers in the city.

 

 

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