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Search results for "enslavement" ...
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Death In The Desert
Exposing trafficking and enslavement of African refugees in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula -- a lawless place ruled by Bedouin tribes. Crimes involved include, but are not limited to, extortion, torture, human and organ trafficking, and murder.
Tags: sinai; peninsula; human trafficking; africa; refugee; Bedouin; torture; extortion; organ trafficking
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Death in the Desert
"This story exposes the trafficking and enslavement of African refugees in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula--a lawless place ruled by Bedouin tribes. What CNN's Pleitgen found was not only trafficking and enslavement, but also organ trafficking."
Tags: African refugees; Sinai Peninsula; Bedouin tribes; human trafficking; enslavement; broadcast
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Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy
"The book uncovers three labor environments where modern-day enslavement or near-enslavement of immigrants has taken place on American soil." Bowe looks at outsourcing, unpaid and illegal immigrant workers, and other loopholes in the American business system.
Tags: immigrant; immigration; outsourcing; India; Kuwait; Saipan; Florida; Oklahoma; employee; employer; PepsiCo; Tropicana; John Pickle Company; clothing; factory; Gap; Target;
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Investigating Sierra Leone
Last summer, the UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone indicted Charles Taylor, then president of Liberiann fir crimes allegedly committed during the civil war in neighboring Sierra Leone. It was only the second time a head of state had been indicted for international war crimes while in office. Prosecutors alleged Taylor was a central figure in a global criminal network that controlled rebels in Sierra Leone who committed murder, enslavement, rape and forced children into combat. American Radio Works journalists Deborah George and Michael Montgomery closely follow the work of investigators and prosecutors as they developed the cases against Taylor and other warlords. The Special Court was established last year in a treat between the UN and the Sierra Leone government and uses a mix of national and international law.
Tags: war; sierra leone; charles taylor; All Things Considered; radio; broadcast; CD; tape
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A Taste of Slavery
An investigation by the Knight-Ridder Washington Bureau reveals that boys enslaved on Ivory Coast farms harvest cocoa use to make chocolate that Americans consume.
Tags: cocoa; slaves; Ivory Coast; chocolate; slavery; labor; foreign affairs; international reporting; business; children
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Of Human Bondage
NBC News Dateline investigates a "startling and disturbing new criminal trend: the buying and selling of women for sexual slavery in developed countries like the United States." The story "follows the trail of women from rural Ukraine to the Czech Republic and finally to brothels in the United States," and identifies "entire communities and villages where brothels were stocked with enslaved girls as young as 14 years old." The story "profiles a handful of the estimated 2 million women who are illegally trafficked out of their home countries ..." "The report visits bogus employment offices and documents exactly how recruiters entice young, educated women with false promises of lucrative jobs abroad."
Tags: TAPE; NO TRANSCRIPT; California Public Records Act; prostitution; women; slavery rings; Eastern Europe: Ukraine; Czech Republic; Poland; Bulgaria; Bosnia; INS; FBI; INTERPOL
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The False Promise of Slave Redemption
Around 20,000 people in Sudan have been enslaved. The Atlantic Monthly investigates humanitarian efforts to buy freedom for Sudanese slaves -- the practice of slave redemption. Some Africans and Westerners say slave redemption actually encourages the practice of taking slaves and promotes hoaxes..
Tags: Africa; Nonprofits; Foreign Affairs
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The Slave Ships of the Sulu Sea
ABC News 20/20 documents the enslavement of Filipino children by fishing boat captains; the children perform dangerous underwater tasks and the Philippine government does little to stop it, Oct. 31, 1985.
Tags: Tape