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for three hundred years the most powerful nations on earth grew rich and strong go on the profits of the slave trade over twelve million men women and children were also be transported from africa on slave ships like this to the colonies and plantations in north and south america today slavery is illegal in every country on the planet but the truth is slavery did not die in the nineteenth century it is alive it is thriving and it is bigger than ever. we're going to put you know we just tried. she has pushed us.
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to quit good let's focus. get a bunch of course. this is the story of a trade in human flesh a global trafficking industry the ruins the lives of millions of young women every day of every year. around the world our best estimate is twenty seven million slaves globally six or eight percent of us sex trafficking. but it's also the story of two european cities more than a thousand kilometers apart and at opposite ends of the world wide chain of sex slavery. today the trail of trafficked women most often ends in the rich and liberal countries of western europe but it begins in the poor
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and underdeveloped former soviet bloc nations and one country in particular the republic of moldova. kisha now is the capital of moldova the poorest country in europe where many young moldovans are often forced to go abroad in order just to survive and is this desperation which has meant that so many young mold of and women are often jute into the sex trafficking industry. when children learned it will come out of a charity i'm still it's not ideal engineer. but they'll say look into the can so my. kids have time to chill and i want to fit a spot that they said salis that enough for your movies doga a lawyer who has represented more than seven hundred victims of sex trafficking the story starts and ends with poverty ok to let them yes to chip. or for that show there's do yoda. shinn the thoughts of what's the latest trend but also
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a lot of good as they could get jammed which is how many of you could decide to change them all by sheer. that's a lot of molecules they're not but it's a full of. outside just now the reality of poverty a stock moldova is still a country largely reliant on subsistence farming. we're heading for the small southern town of tal shame. we're going to meet a young woman who escaped from international sex slavery just a few weeks ago. somebody you know some sort of. i don't just. want to bring it. quoting now proposing to look here was
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buckley's location i say. me as i moved by and that's i thought. you know it's from the book make close to what i am plugging into in this post quote chip chip to shift. from from. your news post to get us look there's more. who are so i mean the maslow's when tired of coffee all it will go. up to. your name up or shut up. and they push up or to push the most important because they're. not on one. windows just because more people. have bought. about. with eric. she has to try moves. satellites with those shots because doc nobody will
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discuss the rain rule but he knows that there. might sort of the dog in the billions could change keeping. the pose the. ship the bushy. he took them to. market one product might explode just then and could difficult gives up a shop. didn't know about that they said in buying. the arena is one of the luckier victims of international sex slavery is now receiving intensive counseling for help from a team of specialists volunteers but many thousands like you get no help at all. in a small office in kids you know volunteers from los stronger an international mt trafficking
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in geo run a hotline for women tricked like the arena into sexual slavery abroad. we have around twenty eight cases that we are working on we receive calls mostly from relatives they might say my daughter called me just today. and she was crying and she asked me to help her so this is what we. do it on a daily basis if from the most common ploy used by moldovan traffickers is to place a bogus job adverts in the local newspaper. the strongest team ahmed says each edition. this is a very interesting proposals for younger woman work for ford then seeing in. thailand italy is very suspicious because they give home to the girl the brady and the so.
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two thousand dollars there. to uncover how the scam works one of our undercover team responded to one of these outfits. i am one who will go. to far too. much longer than i meant. and just the mere gut is the deal of the law. the truth of the lampton the ask syria how dark is the more the law should go dark when fitted in with the other thought that issue and the fact that i have called the public as if it were the budget as if it all four of them want most the advertiser who calls herself olga quickly offers our undercover investigator a job interview. bin but instead of meeting in an office during business hours she wants to meet on
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a street corner at nine o'clock at night. this would make the process if you are too sick employment in moldova you'll probably never meet with future employer or even the agency that is interested in eating plum you'll never meet on the street. olga takes our undercover investigator to a noisy bar very quickly she begins her sales pitch. and. i think. i did. it and. i. i.
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i i. i i. i i i i i i i i i. and i revenko has seen this many times and seen exactly what happens to those who fall for traffickers page. when. the traffickers actually was found the third psychology and emotions from the very beginning until the very end they play with that. they used their own fears or hopes to change the person. moldovan recruiters typically sell them first to local brussels where they are first forced into sex slavery then trafficked abroad. we sent another
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undercover journalist into two of these clubs and uncover the next stage in the trail. it was quickly introduced to sex traffickers. that this man boasted he could provide up to fifty women. the two month period and said he was already working with brothel owners throughout europe. some. tours. and. the next day undercover journalist was introduced to a second trafficker in a park in the center of his you know. anything if i can if i see. you. and then i will find. he was happy to explain how he would ship his cargo of
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sex slaves into the european union fine neighboring countries. to get these out there you can tell. me don't. buy your mass or my bloodline. these two pimps a small players in the sex trafficking in the street. to track down one of the kingpins we have come to a shabby prison in the remote news of moldova. yet when you come to hold a show going to a new movie that is the normal menu. for nearly ten years alexander cavani known as shallow trafficked sex slaves out of moldova and across europe from his clubs in case you know. you love a good thinking machine chin little see. is that i. was going to defeat me because i just look at it any tell you i always thought that
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oedipal become obama told to get in story so what the night in asia shorted what in the brain is that if you indian he became an asylum that in this discipline l l sung songs are not useful for the lady upon society helpless they kill. yet all. i mean inside. but if you all are here it all gets murkier subsoil chilly coverly was convicted of sex trafficking in two thousand and seven but he still protests his innocence that dream of that of absoluteness. the new model who can your thought and might be more of noble birth then but is now not the booze for gas guzzlers but if you did the glee younger but we didn't give all of their lives and i think the whole give a fuck instead he says his sex slaves voluntarily prostituted themselves after finishing work in his clubs you were really looking for months in. the big eaters
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will put up with is a great deal the name of your deal at the legionaries. your own business who worked on corvallis case remembers those women differently. or the. kind of declared sympathy of a little yet just a cold the possibility that this is in which. they give your soichi the vault into that all it should be a good ball. did you get back of course a lot yet that pick up the ideal why would she do thus why would she have done that if she wasn't involved in any of the things you say this was an old glove the few go around me i'm dearly. would get a bill sure. but don't listen because ultimately because any such a beautiful word should use the developers then as a group they knew what was going on and. will do so it was a limited sort of obama should but i lose a little really. because also to focus on me it's a drama but it is also
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a bit would. show luke of ali was sentenced to nineteen years in prison but his prosecution was a rare success in moldova's fights against sex trafficking. thirty forty more i think of. the new deal. mulled over has neither the resources nor the infrastructure to stop the trafficking of its women into sex slavery and to those who tried to protect them the responsibility for policing the trade lies elsewhere. if i'm probably only a small boy the problem is tim said knowing this and exploit that it's leaking the problem must watch it that. little exploited as a fitting it. in a car if. you. like a cherished post. of wings the silent lot of us and its enemy and if i mean
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a typical model and it's out of. less than a day's drive away one country and one city above all positively celebrates the economics of demonic for postage in two thousand the dutch government took the radical step of legalizing prostitution a stance oblique as a means to prevent women being trafficked and forced into the sex industry. today there are more than one thousand two hundred prostitution businesses traval m. m saddam alone has three hundred bras and. all and believes that it has the best system of dealing with the worst excesses of sexual slavery and nowhere sums it up more than the city of amsterdam but look behind the windows and does that proposition really hold up to scrutiny. the dutch legislators
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have not lost their mind again prostitution policy but there is a vision if you tried to compare old van gelder heads amsterdam police's and to traffic school one of the positive advantages of our policy is that for instance prostitute has no fear for the police it's a legal profession if you follow the rules the police won't bother you and i understand that we only see the tape of the iceberg but at least it's a percentage of the branch which we can control they rent but with only seven detectives out of a city police force of six thousand offices were just how much does harold van gelder actually see let alone control now. yes is it possible to say the percentage of women in the sex industry here and i'm sister who have been trafficked now it's not possible it's. not even an estimation and no i don't i can't give you that because at least we don't even know how much how much prostitutes are working in
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amsterdam because we are not registration the prostitutes why should the police wretches straight them because we don't read straight all the butchers or the bakers financing them. yet just a few miles across the city holland's national trafficking reporting organization has a very clear idea of the numbers of women forced into the country's legalized prostitution industry. if you look at the figures from last year we had about a thousand registered victims of human trafficking about eighty percent is sex industry and there's little doubt why so many trafficking victims and on sex slaves in holland is famous for its red light district there's a mob for young girls into prostitution and so i think traffickers make use of our system. legalize prostitution to bring them in all of these to the
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past to get them into. prostitution holland six hundred and sixty million euros every year four million tourists flock to amsterdam most to steroids and often times the mines the prostitutes working in it's me only winters i have a lot of money so here are my trial room for women families together if we have down here bush asked me and the victim human trafficking toshi that has worked for sixteen years with the women has been working in the windows of amsterdam's red light districts if you want to you even think and you want to believe there are a lot. the things what they're doing you know. the story behind them is so different that what you see each street she says is organized by nationality. there are certain streets where you have the south america transsexuals then there's another street where the majority are hungary into this and then here you
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have the spanish speaking i guess. how have things changed in the sex industry in all of from say fifteen twenty years ago to now. because of the european union whenever we open up in the nine months for a counter strike romania bulgaria hungary i mean we see this whole change at the moment the majority of the woman i see yes we got the girls from albania i mean how can a girl from albania out of a village i don't know where from no way to know where to really know how to run to win the must be an organized crime gang this is the true face of poland's experiments in legalized prostitution and this is the face of the man through traffic to here. to ensure she worked as he said slowly. over to year period shut down by the leader of the turkish morgan isaac crime traffic to
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move them one hundred thirty women mostly from eastern europe to holland's red light districts. each woman was turn to with his gangs brian. was forced to service twenty clients and. they behaved in a very brutal way because we have seen cases of forced abortion issue cases of forced to use with the names of the pimps on the girls some girls beaten up and too hard to bruce just put in cold water and beaten up in a terrible way to die. prosecutes is the baron case was a warning that the dutch experiments in legalizing prostitution had worsened not solved the problem of international sex slavery we saw it in two thousand the more liberal for you to prostitution and stand outs trafficking that
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proved to be wrong sixty to seventy percent of the women. in this case were being forced to work in legalized prostitution seems it is modern slavery jeff being human being is a kind of modern slavery. five thousand miles away in america the man who once led the global fight against slavery has long argued that holland is the cause of not the solution to international sex trafficking. think all it's happened is the dutch government has become the super penpal for four years john miller was the u.s. state department's anti slavery worldwide ambassador today he sees the history of slavery repeating itself. believe that they're being very sophisticated regulating the interesting thing is this is the exact same approach they took
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back in the seventeenth century the dutch use to boast about how they had the healthiest slave ships they had the best ventilation they had the best ration they had the best mattresses for the slaves they provided doctors. but slavery went on and on all their talk about regulation was an excuse to avoid abolition. every year the u.s. government publishes a report which judges every country in the world on its efforts to stamp out slavery the trafficking in persons or tip report ranks countries that do the most as tier one. the state department has always given tier one status to holland despite the vehement opposition of john miller i have visited the red light district i've seen the young men with the leather jackets standing outside those
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windows counting who goes in making sure they get all the profits all i can say is i didn't think according to our law that they were to or why. giving such favored status to rich western countries which fuel demand for sex slaves angers impoverished source countries like moldova least because it slowly ranking has put it in danger of economic sanctions from washington. and very often we see that economically strong countries with good of both these are exactly the countries where citizens are exploited this is the countries that failed to show protection and these other countries that imposed those double standards. the fates of the two convicted sex traffickers highlights those double standards. alexander will spend the next nineteen years locked in a mold even prison. is back home in turkey and free
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the dutch government allowed him out of jail for one day. and never return. until the rich western countries address the demonic for prostitution rather than profit from it there will always be men like and. and there will always be sex slaves behind these windows. in the next episode of slavery a twenty first century evil in families of slaves trapped in the brick kilns of fog the stone on the slave moscow who teach them that. investigates the break kiln slaves of pakistan on some of the most shocking and
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appalling working conditions anywhere in south asia up to one million trying to. virtually no one speaks for them they suffer but they suffer in silence with no hope of escape would he say to those allegations and who is working conditions in the industry is equivalent to modern slavery slavery a twenty first century evil continues with bonded slaves announces in business updates brought to you by qatar airways going places together.
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