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Why Slavery? Selling Children

10/11/2018 GMT

Selling Children

Why Slavery?

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Following the lives of children in India, denied a childhood and education.

Director Pankaj Johar sets out to understand how, in the world's largest democracy, it is possible for millions of children to be bought and sold.


In this film we follow the lives of children in India, denied a childhood and education, to be sold to work in mica mines, tea plantations, and as domestic helpers. Their story, traced back to their families, exposes how poverty and a deep lack of knowledge about the meaning of slavery results in the selling of children.


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Uncovering the lives of men, women and children living as modern day slaves.

Five documentary films uncover the lives of men, women and children living as modern day slaves in all corners of the world.

Five documentary films uncover the lives of men, women and children living as modern day slaves in all corners of the world. Whether it is the deeply flawed Kafala System in the Middle East or the prolific number of children bought and sold in India, the WHY SLAVERY? series will shine a light on the millions of lives lived in the shadows of enslavement.

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