During the mid-January Maghe Sankranti festival in Nepal, Kamlari brokers arrive in small Tharu villages hoping to make a deal with families to sell their daughters so they can make some money in the extremely poor region. The men, dressed in their expens

During the mid-January Maghe Sankranti festival in Nepal, Kamlari brokers arrive in small Tharu villages hoping to make a deal with families to sell their daughters so they can make some money in the extremely poor region. The men, dressed in their expensive clothes and riding motorcycles, strike deals to take a girl, sometimes as young as 7 years old, away from her family for a year to be a domestic slave. (Photo By Carlos Avila Gonzalez/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)