Showtime: Sat Sept 22 - 7pm & Sat Sept 29 - 4pm
Location: 296 Brunswick Avenue (2nd Floor), Toronto Ontario
Phone: 647-282-3627

An excerpt from the Brunswick theatre’s website.

TRADING WOMEN: Human Trafficking and the Global Sex Trade

The film also explores the international community’s response to the issue. Trading Women is the first film to demonstrate to viewers the relationship of the trade in drugs to the trade of women. The film dispels common beliefs about the sex trade, such as: “The problem is the parents - it’s part of their culture to sell their daughters;” “The sex trade exists because of Western sex tours;” and “They sell their girls for TV’s.”

BANGKOK GIRL
Tuesday November 15, 2005 at 10pm ET/PT on CBC Newsworld
repeating Tuesday May 7 at 10 pm PT & Saturday May 12 at 10pm ET/PT on CBC Newsword

From CBC’s Website:

Bangkok Girl is a ‘remarkably accomplished, beautifully photographed and intimate debut documentary that puts a human face on the devastating social issue that, sadly, is the fate of too many impoverished girls.’

Bangkok Girl was produced by High Banks Entertainment Ltd. (Victoria, B.C.) in association with CBC Newsworld.

CITIZENShift is an interactive platform where you can explore social issues through: films, photography, articles, blogs and podcasts.

The “Trafficking in Humanity” section of the website offers comprehensive lists of podcasts, films, literature on human trafficking and related issues. To visit this section of CITIZENShift’s website, click here.

On CITIZENShift, you can listen to an audio documentary produced by Outervoices.org, about Cambodian women who have survived sex trafficking and those who have helped them.

To listen to part one, click here.

To listen to part two, click here.

To listen to part three, click here.

“Tìm Em Ghé Chợ Mã Lai”.
Music & Lyrics: Nhạc Sĩ Trần Chí Phúc.
Producer: Nguyen Khoi.
Videographer: Cuong Le.

Showtime: April 29th 2007 at 2pm.
Location: 296 Brunswick Avenue (2nd Floor), Toronto Ontario
Phone: 647-282-3627

An excerpt from the Brunswick theatre’s website.

TRADING WOMEN: Human Trafficking and the Global Sex Trade

The film also explores the international community’s response to the issue. Trading Women is the first film to demonstrate to viewers the relationship of the trade in drugs to the trade of women. The film dispels common beliefs about the sex trade, such as: “The problem is the parents - it’s part of their culture to sell their daughters;” “The sex trade exists because of Western sex tours;” and “They sell their girls for TV’s.”

An excerpt from the film:

Documentary on CBC Newsworld, Tuesday April 17, 2007 at 10pm PT & Saturday April 21 at 10pm ET/PT.

From CBC’s website.

Scarlett is a highly successful madam with 30 years experience in the sex trade business; Simone is a high-class sex worker who services wealthy clients in five Western Canadian cities; and Jennifer is a former drug addicted prostitute who now works tirelessly to offer support to sex trade workers on the streets. These women have had different experiences in the sex trade business, but they’re united by one concern-the safety of women in their stigmatized industry.

A Safer Sex Trade was produced and directed by Carolyn Allain and co-written with David Ray. The documentary is produced by Cheap and Dirty Productions Inc., in association with CBC Newsworld.

The following is a discussion about the trafficking of Vietnamese children into Cambodia from an episode of “Diễn Đàn Khoa Học” produced by the Vietnamese channel, Saigon Broadcasting Television Network.

Part 1:

Part 2:

Part 3:

For those with access to CBC Newsworld, “Selling Sex in Heaven“, a documentary about the sex industry in the Philippines, will be shown on Tuesday April 10, 2007 at 10pm ET/PT. Below is an excerpt about the documentary from the CBC’s website.

Mila works at Heaven, a little bar located in “blowjob alley”, a notorious magnet for sex tourists in the Philippines. Like many young women forced into prostitution, Mila hopes that she’ll be rescued from Heaven and taken to America for a better life. Narrated by actor Kiefer Sutherland, Selling Sex in Heaven is a heartbreaking documentary that examines the sex trade industry in the Philippines and how this nasty but lucrative business traps many young women.

Selling Sex in Heaven was produced and directed by Meredith Ralston of Ralston Productions (Halifax).

National Multi Cultural Institute has created a human trafficking search portal as a service to individuals and organizations working to eliminate human trafficking. Click on the visual links under “human trafficking t.v” to get download clips related to human trafficking from various organizations working in the field. Check out the portal…

For those with access to BBC2 television, “Slave Children”, a documentary about the trafficking of children by Rageh Omaar will be shown March 26th at 2100 BST. The documentary follows the story of five children from three continents. Below is an excerpt from the BBC website about Ali, a boy whose story is featured in the documentary.

Six-year-old Ali was picked up by Saudi authorities for begging on the streets of Jeddah.

He was smuggled into Saudi Arabia from Yemen in order to beg.

Ali says he ended up begging after physical abuse involving metal wire attacks on his back. He says he was beaten up when he said he did not want to beg all day.

Ali is one of thousands of Yemeni children sold to gangs and forced to beg each year.

These children are often sold by families who are duped into believing their offspring will get a better life.

Many of the children who are smuggled over the Saudi/Yemen border are beaten and sometimes even mutilated to become better, more effective beggars.

It is hard to be exact about figures, but in 2005 the Yemeni Ministry of Social Affairs acknowledged that about 300 children were crossing the border every month.

Click here to read more on the BBC website….

Information available on the internet can sometimes be overwhelming. As such, from time to time, I will be posting links and resources related to human trafficking and sexual exploitation that I’ve found helpful or interesting.

To start of, here is a radio documentary from the BBC about paedophiles in Goa, India.

The following is an introduction to the documentary from BBC’s website:

Thousands of tourists visit the Indian state of Goa’s beautiful beaches every year, but in this BBC investigation Allan Urry discovers a darker side to beach life in a tropical paradise.

Foreigners are travelling to Goa to sexually abuse children, and the local authorities are turning their back on the problem.

Allan travels to Goa to speak to charities, NGOs and government ministers and finds out that boys and girls as young as ten are indeed being made available for sex to foreign tourists.

As tourism in Goa grows bigger and bigger, will this problem get worse and worse?