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Boys ride a motorbike on their way back home after taking a bath in a canal at Chachura village, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh April 4, 2012. REUTERS/Parivartan Sharma


A Buddhist monk looks at a Buddha statue in Nong Sanoe handicraft village in Nakhon Ratchasima province, northeast of Bangkok March 13, 2012. Nong Sanoe is a handicraft village specializing in clay statues. REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang (THAILAND - SOCIETY RELIGION TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)



Seventeen-year-old prostitute Hashi embraces a Babu, her "husband", inside her small room at Kandapara brothel in Tangail, a northeastern city of Bangladesh, March 4, 2012. Many young and inexperienced prostitutes have "lovers" or "husbands" who normally live outside the brothel occasionally taking money and sex from them in exchange for security in this male dominated society. She earns about 800-1000 taka daily ($9.75 - $12.19) servicing around 15-20 customers every day. Hashi is one of hundreds of mostly teenage sex workers living in a painful life of exploitation in Kandapara slum's brothel who take Oradexon, a steroid used by farmers to fatten their cattle, in order to gain weight and appear "healthier" and more attractive to clients. REUTERS/Andrew Biraj


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