Bulgaria

In Greece, where adoption is a long and difficult process, some couples result to working with traffickers to take infants from Bulgaria and smuggle them across the border.

Every spring, a town in Bulgaria gathers for the controversial "bride market," where young virgins are paraded in front of suitors.

Germany implemented some of the most liberal prostitution laws in Europe. Aimed at improving the legal and social status of women, the laws have had the opposite effect.