![]() ![]() I have been here for five years and this is my home. I am sixteen now but I tell people I am twenty years old. I tell people I am a Hindu and that my name is Munni. ![]() Munni: All I remember is I am from Bangladesh and I came here when I was ten years old. UNODC: Can you tell us how you came to be here at such a young age? UNODC interviewed Munni, sixteen years old, who shares how she was trafficked, made her escape, returned to the brothels and how the economy of her trade works. 'Born into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids' won the Academy Award for Documentary Feature in 2004. The place got globally known, when an American documentary film, Sonagachi, translated as Golden Tree, has several hundred multistory brothels built in the winding lanes and is home to some 10,000 sex workers. This is the story of Munni, a commercial sex worker from Sonagachi, the largest red-light district in Kolkata, India. India: My life in the 'red lights' of Sonagachi
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