The Demand
Demand for products and services that involve people in slavery is global. It is not 'happening in another country.'
WE SUSTAIN THE DEMAND FOR SLAVE MADE PRODUCTS.
SPEAK UP. Demand ethically sourced goods and services.
Slaves may be domestic workers in your street.
Slaves may have made the carpet in your home.
Salves may have been working on the cocoa plantation that sourced the chocolate cookie you just ate.
Slaves may have mined the beautiful diamond ring you are wearing.
Slaves probably mined the minerals in your mobile phone.
Slaves may have been used in the child pornography a neibhbour is viewing on-line.
Slaves may be in the next suburb being raped by the hour.
Slaves may be the young men and women who look like consenting 'prostitutes' you saw downtown.
It is estimated that $32 billion is generated by human trafficking per year – 70% from pornography and commerical sexual exploitation – $28 billion.
This is a challenging image to look at. But it is reality. And please remember child sexual exploition is both male and female. If you are a teacher, the young teenager is your class during the day might be raped to make pimps and traffickers money that same night.
PLAYGROUND by LIbby Spears is a feature-length documentary about the commercial sexual exploitation of American Children throughout North America.
DEMAND for electonic devices and mobile phones that contain minerals that slaves have sourced.
The Documentary Blood in the Mobile shows the connection between our phones and the civil war in the Congo. Director Frank Poulsen travels to DR Congo to see the illegal mine industry with his own eyes. He gets access to Congo’s largest tin-mine, which is being controlled by different armed groups, and where children work for days in narrow mine tunnels to dig out the minerals that end up in our phones.
NEPALI SLAVES IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Pete Pattison investigates the trafficking of people escaping poverty and conflict in Nepal. Unscrupulous agents take huge sums of money from them for work abroad then consign them to slavery and appalling conditions in the Middle East. Many are abused by their employers and some are killed at the hands of agents.
SLAVERY: A GLOBAL INVESTIGATION
Slavery is officially banned internationally by all countries, yet despite this, in the world today there are more slaves now than ever before. In the 400 years of the slave trade, around 13 million people were shipped from Africa. Today there are an estimated 27 million slaves – people paid no money, locked away and controlled by violence. Multi-Award winning documentary makers Kate Blewett and Brian Woods saw this terrible exploitation with their own eyes. The result is an utterly devastating film.
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