{"id":2195,"date":"2020-11-09T10:00:19","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T07:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ludci.eu\/magazine\/?p=2195"},"modified":"2020-11-07T21:03:35","modified_gmt":"2020-11-07T18:03:35","slug":"the-movie-industry-against-child-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ludci.eu\/magazine\/the-movie-industry-against-child-trafficking\/","title":{"rendered":"The Movie Industry Against Child Trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Writes Althea, Content Writer, Headline Diplomat eMagazine, LUDCI.eu
\nThe UN describes child trafficking as \u201crecruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt\u201d of a child for the purpose of exploitation. When it is put like this in black and white, you really can\u2019t connect to the experience of the victims. Even the best efforts at documenting the stories of several victims cannot really tell the whole story. This is where the movie industry comes in. Movies have become a part of our lives. In every part of the world, local and international movies are enjoyed by the old and young. The industry had a global net worth of $136 billion as of 2018.<\/p>\n

In recent years, Hollywood, the world\u2019s largest movie industry started to make films that illustrated the ordeal of trafficking victims. Born into brothels: Calcutta\u2019s Red Light Kids, the work of documentary photographer Zana Briski is one of the earlier efforts to document the lives of child sex workers. Released in 2004, it received the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2005. From a different angle, Girl Model, a 2011 documentary tells the disturbing story of young girls from Siberia being sold to Japan to work as ...<\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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