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The Shanghai Hotel (2011)
A young woman named Yin Yin (Eugenia Yuan) illegally buys her way to the USA from communist China hoping to make a better life for herself and her family. After a long, treacherous journey stowed away in a dark hull of an overcrowded cargo ship, Yin Yin arrives in New York City for what she thinks will be the beginning of a better life. Falsely promised a job in the technology industry, her dreams are shattered when she is told by the Snakeheads, an Asian gang, that her debt is much higher than expected. To pay off that additional debt she will have to work it off by being a prostitute.
The Price of Sugar (2007)
A fiery Spanish priest risks his life to confront modern-day slavery on the sugar plantations of the Dominican Republic.
The Day My God Died (2003)
The Day My God Died documents child sexual slavery of Nepalese girls using spy camera technology and profiles the abolitionists that work to stop these human rights violations.
Stop the Traffick (2001)
Thirty years of war left Cambodia ravaged and poverty-stricken. Since the end of the brutal Khmer Rouge rule, poverty, corruption and global tourism have all made it particularly vulnerable to the child labor industry. Children are trafficked into cities from rural areas to become sex slaves or sex workers, or trafficked out to comparatively wealthy Thailand to work in Bangkok as beggars, domestic workers, or laborers on construction sites.
Slavery: A Global Investigation
The global economy has created immense wealth in the West, but it has also spawned a sinister new market in slaves – in Africa, Asia and South America, and on our own doorsteps in the capitals of Britain and the U.S. Slavery: A Global Investigation inspired by Free the Slaves President Kevin Bales’ award-winning book Disposable People, exposes cases of slavery around the world.
Promised Land (2004)
Promised Land tells the story of a group of young Estonian girls smuggled through Egypt to be auctioned off as prostitutes in Israel.
Not My Life (2011)
Filmed on five continents, in a dozen countries, Not My Life takes viewers into a world where millions of children are exploited, every day, through an astonishing array of practices including forced labor, domestic servitude, begging, sex tourism, sexual violence, and child soldiering.
In the Name of Safety (1999)
A documentary exploring the false imprisonment of trafficked Bangladeshi women and children.
Paper Cannot Wrap Ember (2007)
Cambodian sex workers discuss their experiences in the industry.
No 556 13th Lane, Kamathipura, Mumbai (2002)
A documentary about a raid on a brothel in Mumbai, which resulted in the rescue of 14 girls.