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Child Prostituition.
In the book Sold by Patricia McCormick, Lakshmi, the main character is sold to be a child “worker” in the city so she can bring money home for her family. She finds herself working in a house full of women, and men come to see them at night. This is actually a big issue in the world but doesn't get very much notice from people. One of the main area's of concern is Iraq. The subject seems to be pushed away because of all the other issues going on over there. You hear about all of the bombing and war related things but before I read this book I had never heard anything about this.
They trade the girls as though they were animals. An uncercover worked has been researching this in Iraq for sex years. The sex traffickers will take girls as young as eleven and can be sold for prices as much as 30,000 and as little as 2,000. The girls own mothers will try and get her daughter sold for as much as she can so the family can have the money. The girls normally have no idea what is going to happen to them because they are from small towns and are taken to bigger city's where they think they will be working for a family as a maid. They live in large houses full of girls and women and when they rebel against doing what they are told they can be beat sevirly, and also told that their family wouldn't be able to get any money from them because they will not obey.