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Child Slavery I & II


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Subjects: Child Abuse, Child Labour, Children's Rights, Global Issues, Human Rights, Poverty

Grade Level: SrH-Adult
Producer: BBC
Closed Captioned: No		 Running Time: 2x45 mins
Country of Origin: Great Britain
Study Guide: No
Copyright Date: 2007
Available in French: No

It's almost 200 years since the abolition of slavery in most countries. But across the world, the slave trade is booming like never before – a business worth an estimated $29 billion a year. About 14 million children are enslaved today worldwide – more than at any time in history.

Now, in a remarkable journey across five continents, six children tell their stories. Children are bought and sold like bags of sugar. They break stones in quarries, clean and cook for their owners, work the plantations and service Western sex tourists. They are beaten, abused, worked to death, and denied any contact with their family.

This film presents an extraordinary snapshot of the children living in slavery around the world today as they tell their stories, revealing the nature and true extent of the global problem. Their stories are intercut with one another to draw out the parallels and the differences between their experiences. They are interspersed with astonishing facts about the nature and scale of the slave trade across the world today.

FACTS and FIGURES:
  • Every year, 22,000 children die in work-related accidents around the world.
  • The UN estimates that 15,000 Malian adolescents are kept as slaves in Ivory Coast.
  • As many as 1 in 10 children in Haiti are kept as slaves.

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