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Hear powerful and riveting firsthand accounts and stories from experts, modern abolitionists, and filmmakers.
What I've Been Through Is Not Who I Am
Published: October 2011, Runtime: 21:35This documentary brings together a diverse set of experts from juvenile justice, law enforcement, advocates, and services providers to speak about the traumatic effects of commercial sexual exploitation of children. They also share examples of how legislative reform measures and new approaches are helping shift our response from punitive to restorative. Katrina and experts in the field provide a glimpse of a cycle of violence and a broken system. However, Katrina challenges us to see survivors in terms of their humanity, value and potential -- not their past. Once we see exploited children in these terms, we realize our response to their trauma is in critical need of reform.
The Candy Shop
Published: October 2011, Runtime: 29:59The film is a Fairytale/Parable about the child sex trafficking epidemic that has overrun the city of Atlanta. The film is being used not only to raise awareness, but to provoke meaningful action towards this issue taking place in our own backyards.
The Candy Shop is a thirty minute film from Whitestone for the Doorpost Film Project, and with support from 12Stone® Church and Street GRACE.
Latino Brothels a Hidden Problem
Published: April 2011, Runtime: 8:59"Most people have no idea this is happening in their communitities, Bradley Miles, executive director of the Polaris Project anti-trafficking group, says of the Latino brothels that set up shop in average American neighborhoods.
No Such Thing: Trafficking of Girls in the United States
Published: March 2011, Runtime: 38:20From the Women in the World 2011 conference, a panel moderated by Hon. Jeanine Pirro (TV Host, former District Attorney and Judge) with Ashley Judd (Activist and actress), Sharon Cooper (MD, FAAP, CEO of Developmental and Forensic Pediatrics, P.A.), Doug Justus (Retired Portland Police Sergeant), and Malike Saada Saar (Founder and Executive Director of The Rebecca Project for Human Rights).
Stella's Voice - Moldova
Published: March 2011, Runtime: 6:21This is a 6 minute clip of documentary footage produced in Moldova in Eastern Europe about the horrific problem of sex trafficking and one ministry's plan to make a difference.
Truckers Against Trafficking
Published: January 2011, Runtime: 3:46The goal of Truckers Against Trafficking (TAT) is to mobilize members of the trucking and travel plaza industry to combat domestic sex trafficking by helping us put our wallet cards in the hands of every trucker in America; have our upcoming TAT-training DVD made part of orientation for all truck stop and travel plaza employees, all students of private and public trucking driving schools, all truck drivers employed via major carriers or owner/operators; and have TAT posters posted in all truck stops, rest areas and truck carrier break rooms across the United States.
Anuradha Koirala is putting a stop to sex trafficking
Published: December 2010, Runtime: 3:26Anuradha Koirala is fighting to prevent the trafficking and sexual exploitation of Nepal's women and girls.
Muse - MK Ultra
Published: October 2010, Runtime: 4:08MTV EXIT and Muse, in partnership with USAID, release a music
video that dramatically highlights the dangers and impact of human
trafficking.
Produced for the band's track MK Ultra from the album The
Resistance, the video is the third in a series of award-winning
music video collaborations launched in 2008 with Radiohead for
their track All I Need, and was followed up with The Killers in
2009 with a video by David Slade (Twilight: Eclipse) for the song
Goodnight, Travel Well.
Chocolate - The Bitter Truth
Published: August 2010, Runtime: 14:56The widespread use of children in cocoa production is controversial not only because of the usual concerns about child labor and exploitation, but also because up to 12,000 of the 200,000 children working in Ivory Coast, the world's biggest producer of cocoa, may be victims of human trafficking or slavery. Most attention on this subject has focused on West Africa, which collectively supplies nearly 80% of the world's cocoa and Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) in particular, which supplies half of the world's cocoa. Thirty percent of children under age 15 in sub-Saharan Africa are child laborers, mostly in agricultural activities including cocoa farming.
Kevin Bales: How to combat modern slavery
Published: February 2010, Runtime: 18:01In this moving yet pragmatic talk, Kevin Bales explains the business of modern slavery, a multibillion-dollar economy that underpins some of the worst industries on earth. He shares stats and personal stories from his on-the-ground research -- and names the price of freeing every slave on earth right now.
Sunitha Krishnan fights sex slavery
Published: November 2009, Runtime: 12:42Sunitha Krishnan has dedicated her life to rescuing women and children from sex slavery, a multimilion-dollar global market. In this courageous talk, she tells three powerful stories, as well as her own, and calls for a more humane approach to helping these young victims rebuild their lives.
Playground Documentary
Published: October 2008, Runtime: 4:52Documentary produced by George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Steven Soderbergh and Libby Spears to highlight sex trafficking in the United States.
Eye To Eye With Katie Couric: Human Trafficking (CBS News)
Published: September 2007, Runtime: 11:35David Batstone, author of "Not For Sale," tells Hannah Storm that slavery is a problem that persists in the United States today, largely due to human trafficking. (via CBSNews.com)
