WHY SLAVERY? Selling Children | Child Trafficking in India
Clip: Season 4 Episode 11 | 44sVideo has Closed Captions
Kailash Satyarthi (Nobel Peace Prize) talks about India's child trafficking statistics.
In India, millions of vulnerable children are bought and sold. Far removed from the issue of child slavery until a family maid suffers a devastating loss, filmmaker Pankaj Johar travels the country to understand and expose the ways in which poverty, illiteracy and corruption conspire to provide a breeding ground for child trafficking in the world's largest democracy.
Funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Additional funding provided by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Wyncote Foundation.
WHY SLAVERY? Selling Children | Child Trafficking in India
Clip: Season 4 Episode 11 | 44sVideo has Closed Captions
In India, millions of vulnerable children are bought and sold. Far removed from the issue of child slavery until a family maid suffers a devastating loss, filmmaker Pankaj Johar travels the country to understand and expose the ways in which poverty, illiteracy and corruption conspire to provide a breeding ground for child trafficking in the world's largest democracy.
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WHY SLAVERY? Selling Children | A Mother's Burden
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Mothers in India share the familial challenges that force them to make difficult choices. (1m 22s)
WHY SLAVERY? Selling Children | Preview
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Is poverty, illiteracy and corruption raising a generation of children for sale? (30s)
WHY SLAVERY? Selling Children | Trailer
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Is poverty, illiteracy and corruption raising a generation of children for sale? (1m 29s)
WHY SLAVERY? Selling Children | Vulnerable to Trafficking
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Colin Gonsalves explains who is most vulnerable to human trafficking in India. (48s)
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Funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Additional funding provided by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Wyncote Foundation.