The powerful, poignant, bestselling National Book Award finalist gives voice to a young girl robbed of her childhood yet determined to find the strength to triumph. Lakshmi is 13 years old and lives with her family in a small hut on a mountain in Nepal. Her stepfather says she must leave home and take a job to support her family. Lakshmi journeys to India and arrives at "Happiness House" full of hope. But she soon learns the unthinkable truth: she has been sold into prostitution.
Deeply researched and scrupulously even-handed, this work provides readers with a clear and accurate understanding of human trafficking and related issues related to socioeconomic inequality, human rights, and international law.
Trafficking, which involves the buying and selling of human beings to profit from their labor or sexual degrading, is a crime with life-shattering effects for many of the victims. Through threats or deceit, human traffickers force the most vulnerable members of society into servitude to meet the demands for cheap labor and sex workers.
Modern slavery is far closer than we think. Yet it is largely unseen and unknown to most of us - a crime against humanity hidden in plain sight. In this revealing exposé, Kate Garbers shares moving stories of survivors she has met and shares insights she has gained through over a decade of anti-slavery work.
Insider details from the takedown of Backpage, the world's largest sex trafficker, by the prosecutor who led the charge. Backpage.com was the world's largest sex trafficking operation. Backpage ran thousands of listings advertising the sale of vulnerable young people for sex, many as young as 12, and forced into the commercial sex trade through fear, violence and coercion.
Based on true stories, Sold is the story of Lakshmi who journeys from a pastoral, rural village in Nepal to a gritty brothel/prison called Happiness House in Kolkata, India. Through one extraordinary girl's story, SOLD illustrates the brutality of child trafficking, which affects millions of children around the globe every year. SOLD is a call to action, and a testament to the power and resilience of the human spirit.
This documentary shines new light on a labor trafficking case in which Guatemalan teens were forced by a third-party contractor to work against their will at Trillium Farms in Ohio, a major egg producer. The investigative team exposes a criminal network that exploited undocumented minors, the companies who profited from their forced labor, and how U.S. government policies and practices helped to deliver some teens directly to their traffickers.
With 27 million victims, human trafficking is the second largest criminal enterprise in the world, predominantly victimizing women, with children making up as much as half the statistics. However, this documentary shows that it is not just a back-alley enterprise in under developed regions of the world, it is also prevalent in industrial nations and right here in our own backyard.
Young people around the world are taking action against human trafficking.
