BBC NEWS | In pictures: Forced labour and trafficking

"Unemployment drives many people to seek a job abroad. They believe life is much better out there," explains Bubusara Ryskulova (right), head of a crisis centre. She tells the story of Aysalkyan, the woman on the TV screen. Aysalkyn went to Kazakhstan with her two children when her husband was jailed for robbery. She worked from dawn to dusk on a tobacco farm with many other Kyrgyz women. They lived in huts on the fields and had their passports taken away so they couldn't leave. Aysalkyn managed to escape, but she had lost her 12-year-old daughter who died of pneumonia because she wasn't allowed to visit a doctor."

Text: Bektour Sydykov and Jyldyz Kuvatova
Picture: Bektour Sydykov

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