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During Japanese occupation, thousands of Southeast Asian women were forced to serve as sex workers. But on one tiny island in Indonesia, local women resisted by heavily tattooing themselves. Broadly traveled to meet the last tattooed women of Timor.

This video for NSFW: The Female Gaze features the artist Maidenfed, who combines photography, self-portrait and collage to create confrontational images that draw on fetish, s&m, and medical imagery, and explore the boundaries of female sexuality.

Witchcraft is very much alive in Romania and it’s even feared by politicians. We join the country’s most powerful witches for the main rituals of the year.

VICE News travels to Peru to meet the Israelites, a religious group that migrated to the Peruvian Amazon in 1995 and who also may be involved in transnational drug trade.