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Stolen Childhoods: Feature Length Documentary on Child Labor
Stolen Childhoods: A wrenching documentary about the growing plague of exploitive child labor that engulfs over 246 million children around the world. In extraordinary footage of their working conditions, these poor and enslaved children tell their own stories about being forced to pick pesticide laden tobacco, coffee and vegetables, about kids chained to looms and boys kidnapped to work on fishing platforms at sea, girls forced into prostitution and children scavenging at dumps; cogs in the global economy and a breading ground for terrorism. All these children tell their stories in their own words. The film gives voice to children still trapped in this kind of life and it also celebrates the resilience of kids whose lives have been saved. { video-clips:trailer/nightline/cnn/more}
This documentary looks really well informative, and steers people towards fair-trade and/or organic. However, they also claim one of the key solutions to this problem is for education to be freely available, and may be used as a way to get more attention and/or funding for UNICEF... After all, it was UNICEF who released the report indicating 246 million children are drug around like slaves... However, in my opinion, this video is worth our attention regardless, as it appears a blatent video documented overview of modern day child slavery... I have no doubt that 246 million children really are slaved cogs in the global economy; in fact I would assume that number to be much higher when taking into account sweatshops, and even higher when taking into account adult slavery in sweatshops & other forms of tyranical business settings.
