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Resources
Selling the Girl Next Door (2011)
In a year-long investigation, CNN correspondent Amber Lyon examines the realities of the business of underage sex.
Highway Courtesans (2005)
In rural India, 6 years in the life of young Guddi Chauhan are examined, as she struggles against the centuries-old tradition of prostitution she’s expected to honor.
I Just Keep Quiet: The Voices of Human Trafficking (2006)
20 min | Documentary, Short Film, News Investigation An educational overview of human trafficking in the US, including interviews with …
Playground (2009)
Sexual exploitation of children is a problem that we tend to relegate to back-alley brothels in developing countries. This film traces the epidemic to its disparate, and decidedly domestic, roots.
Hell on Earth: Slavery Today (2006)
A film on modern forms of slavery in Niger and the Philippines.
Night Girl (2001)
From the series “Girls Around the World,” Night Girl reveals the life of 17-year-old Han Lin who is forced to work as a go-go dancer to provide money for her family.
The Gatekeeper (2002)
A border patrol agent goes undercover to cross with a group of undocumented immigrants, only to be forced to work for a drug ring.
Dancing Boys of Afghanistan (2010)
A documentary exploring a practice in Afghanistan called “Bacha bazi” (boy play) in which warlords pay families to give over their sons, use them for entertainment, and often exploit them sexually.
Off Jackson Avenue (2008)
A Mexican woman sold into sexual slavery, a local car thief with dreams of respectability, and a Japanese English-language teacher who moonlights as an assassin unknowingly race toward a single denouement across the international no-man’s-land of Queens, NY.
The Virgin of Tijuana (2010)
Sarah, a young diabetic woman, leaves for the U.S. border to find the American dream in Los Angeles. She is taken to a party of wealthy older men where she is auctioned off as the “Virgin of Tijuana.” When Sarah’s brother Zero realizes that she has left without her insulin, he goes on a mission to save her.