Our Channels It’s almost 200 years since the abolition of slavery in most countries. But across the world, the slave trade is booming like never before – a business worth an estimated $29 billion a year.
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Every year, 22,000 children die in work-related accidents around the world.
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The UN estimates that 15,000 Malian adolescents are kept as slaves in Ivory Coast.
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As many as 1 in 10 children in Haiti are kept as slaves.
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Child Slavery
Child Slavery
About 14 million children are enslaved today worldwide – more than at any time in history. Now, in a remarkable journey across five continents, six children tell their stories.
Children are bought and sold like bags of sugar. They break stones in quarries, clean and cook for their owners, work the plantations and service Western sex tourists. They are beaten, abused, worked to death, and denied any contact with their family.
Using the acclaimed format pioneered by One Day One Day, Coming of Age and Living Positive, this film presents an extraordinary snapshot of the children living in slavery around the world today as they tell their stories, revealing the nature and true extent of the global problem.
Their stories are intercut with one another to draw out the parallels and the differences between their experiences. They are interspersed with astonishing facts about the nature and scale of the slave trade across the world today.
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