Videos of Modern Slavery

This video shows the prevalence of sex slavery in Germany. Many young girls with the desire to escape poverty, end up in the hands of sex traffickers. Women from Romania in particular, sometimes fall prey to criminal networks while seeking a better life in Germany. For the most part, the criminals go undetected – because sex work is a perfectly legal job in Germany, provided it is consensual. But estimates suggest that up to 90 percent of the women are forced into the sex trade. Human beings are a lucrative commodity for organised crime. Compared to drugs or weapons, they cost very little. And they can be sold not just once, but repeatedly, every day. Young women seeking to escape poverty in their home countries end up in German brothels. Most of them come from Romania or Bulgaria. Unscrupulous human traffickers lure them with the promise of a well-paid job only to force them into sex slavery. #Sex trafficking, #Human trafficking #Sex slavery

A short documentary where the plight of South Asian workers in Portugal’s berry-growing region is investigated. These workers endure hard labour for under four euros an hour, working ten-hour days, with the hope of obtaining an EU passport after seven years. The promise of a better future for their family’s is overshadowed by their indebtedness to the trafficking mafia in their home countries, the confiscation of their passports, and the general vulnerability they face as tourists and migrants. Many migrants are at the mercy of these trafficking gangs, who threaten to cancel their visa applications if they do not comply with exploitative work demands. The documentary sheds light on the troubling reality faced by these workers, who pay exorbitant amounts to recruiting agencies for tourist visas just to work in Portugal. Fees can be as high as 16,000 euros, and are often funded by the trafficking mafia. As a result, the trafficking mafia are gaining more power and control in migrant communities. Despite the Portuguese government’s aim to attract foreign harvest workers by offering citizenship, the documentary raises questions about the potential existence of a system of modern slavery in the heart of Europe.

In this video, Jessa Crisp, a Colorado-based survivor of child sex trafficking has come forward to reveal that police are many times instrumental in sex trafficking operations. When she was a child, her family was part of a group who sexually abused her. She was later trafficked. To make matters even more hopeless for the woman, she was unable to report the abuse or go to the police because there were numerous police officers who were actually involved in the kidnapping and abuse. Jessa never gave up because she has been strong and determined to live the life of her aspirations. #Child-sex trafficking, #sexual exploitation

This documentary by the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) shows the brutal and harsh reality of human rights violations in the fishing industry. The documentary unveils the horrendous truth in the Ghanaian fishing industry where Ghanaian crew reports shocking human rights abuses aboard Chinese-owned trawl vessels, from beatings to lack of drinkable water. Foreign ownership of trawlers is illegal in Ghana, but Chinese companies are using Ghanaian front companies to control the industry. Around 90% of the industrial trawlers in Ghana are ultimately owned and financed by Chinese companies in this way. All of the crew members EJF interviewed had witnessed physical abuse at the hands of the senior crew. This documentary highlights the urgent need for transparency measures and enforcement of strict laws in the fishing industry to ensure that vessels operate legally, sustainably, and ethically. #forced labour #human rights abuse #labour exploitation #hazardous work

This is an eye-opening documentary unveiling modern slavery in the heart of Nairobi. It is a result of a year-long investigation by BBC Africa Eye that has uncovered the shocking evidence of a thriving underground network in Kenya that snatches babies from their mothers and sells them for a profit. The secretive and highly lucrative trade preys on the country’s most vulnerable, stealing children from the streets and even the maternity ward of a major government hospital. It is trade in human lives preying on the most vulnerable women in Kenya. #child trafficking #baby stealers #human trafficking

‘13th’ encompasses a wide range of topics, but centres around how modern slavery occurs in the US through mass incarceration and the prison system. Despite slavery being outlawed in 1865, a ‘loophole’ in the 13th Amendment allows for individuals to be enslaved if they have been imprisoned. The documentary details how this amendment intertwines with racial dynamics in America, allowing for the ongoing and continual criminalisation of people of colour in the US, particularly black people. With a prison population of over 2 million and 25% of the world’s prison population, the exploitation of criminality and prison labour has become a highly profitable business. The documentary goes beyond just modern slavery, however, and describes the criminalisation of civil rights leaders and the “war on drugs”. This highlights how across the 20th Century and into the 21st Century, a system has been created to incarcerate black people en masse, ensuring the profit off of black bodies not only through their presence in the system, but also through their unpaid slave labour. #Forced labour.