Durbar is an organization of workers in this industry, whose families were documented in Sonagachi in a film that won the 2005 Oscar for Best Documentary. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this industry that in Bangladesh is primarily based in towns like Kandapara and Daulatdia. The 2023 documentary Kokomo City focuses on four Black workers in this industry in the United States.
ANSWER: sex work [accept sex trafficking; accept prostitution; prompt on trafficking or human trafficking; prompt on forced labor] (The film is Born into Brothels. The lead-in clues are from Kolkata, India.)
[10m] Alongside Bangladesh, this North African country has been one of the few Muslim-majority countries with legal sex work. This country banned sex work in 2022 after crackdowns under the Ennahda party and leader Kais Saied.
ANSWER: Tunisia [or Republic of Tunisia or al-Jumhūrīyah at-Tūnisīyah]
[10e] Legal sex workers in this country’s Beyoğlu (“bay-OH-loo”) district have faced crackdowns under the leadership of this country’s longtime Islamist president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (“reh-JEP tie-YEEP AIR-doh-wan”).
ANSWER: Turkey [or Republic of Türkiye or Türkiye Cumhuriyeti]
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