Human traffickers in Malawi often prey on children and women with low education and social economic status with many originating from broken or violent homes.
Traffickers exert extremely brutal and manipulative control over their victims, from both a physical and a psychological perspective.
These women who are trafficked suffer from the typical circumstances of sexual violence, and the deliberately malicious “treatment” inflicted on them by the traffickers contribute to intensifying the severity of the impact of the experience.