From obstacles to bridges

It’s been barely six months since a British television documentary exposed the exploitation and sexual harassment faced by young British workers in Cyprus’s tourism sector in Ayia Napa. It aired in January 2026. The team behind that investigation managed to drag into the light a truth that was “hidden” only in the sense that everyone had somehow learned to look past it, through raw testimony from victims, and by capturing on record the behaviour of venue owners demanding sexual favours in...