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Blessing Obuson, 19, rescued from human traffickers, chats on her smartphone in a shelter on the outskirts of Moscow, Russia February 21, 2019. Obuson thought Russia's World Cup would be an opportunity to find a job and flew into Moscow from Nigeria last June on a fan ID. Instead, she found herself forced to work as a prostitute. She said she was locked in a flat on the outskirts of Moscow and forced into sex work along with 11 other Nigerian women who were supervised by a madam, also from Nigeria. “I cried really hard. But what choice did I have?” Obuson told Reuters after being freed by anti-slavery activists. She said her madam had confiscated her passport and told her she'd only get it back once she'd worked off a fictional debt of $50,000. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)
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