European governments oblivious to forced labour conditions, says report | Global development | guardian.co.uk

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Study of labour conditions in countries including France, Italy and Germany suggests up to 880,000 people being exploited.

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YouTube - BAVC PI09 #2 - SOS Slaves

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Uploaded by draxtordespres on Jun 8, 2009
"Every year, SF based Bay Area Video Coalition brings filmmakers together with technologists to develop new media strategies for their projects at the annual Producer's Institute. Draxtor Despres had the chance to talk to Spanish-American documentarian Chelo Alvarez-Stehle about her project on sex-trafficking, called "Sands Of Silence", which will be accompanied by a flash-based game."



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Documentary Film : The Dark Side of Chocolate by Miki Mistrati & U. Roberto Romano

The Dark Side of Chocolate :

Director: Miki Mistrati & U. Roberto Romano | Producer: Helle Faber
Genre: Documentary | Produced In: 2010 | Country: Denmark
Tags: Africa, Crime, Europe, Human Rights, Trafficking

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Synopsis: Children in Germany eat chocolate every day of the year. They enjoy the delicious taste of cocoa, which originated in Africa. But behind the production of their delicious treats, there is another taste altogether: the taste of child abusers and child slavery. In this program we will bring the chocolate makers to book, and confront them with our visual evidence. We will reveal the conditions under which the apparently innocuous chocolate bar is produced, and thereafter follow the coco beans’ route from the plantation to the chocolate bar in Germany, all with the consumer oblivious to the full story behind what their chocolate bar actually contains. In the process, those responsible will be held accountable. "The Dark Side of Chocolate" is a journalistic documentary which will reveal for the first time on film the hideous truth behind the manufacturing of German and international chocolate, as sold and enjoyed in Germany and the rest of the world.
URL: http://www.cultureunplugged.com/play/4809#videoDetail

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Documentary Film : Combat Trafficking With Italian Carabinieri Labour Inspectors by ILO & Karen Naets Sekiguchi

Combat Trafficking With Italian Carabinieri Labour Inspectors :

Director: ILO & Karen Naets Sekiguchi | Producer: ILO & Karen Naets Sekiguchi
Genre: Documentary | Produced In: 2009 | Country: Switzerland
Tags: Europe, Human Rights, Poverty, Trafficking

Synopsis: Twenty-one billion dollars: that’s how much the victims of forced labour lost in wages and in fees paid to agencies last year worldwide, according to “The Cost of Coercion”, the ILO’s Global Report on the economic costs of coercive labour practices. And the plague of forced labour is going global, now becoming part of the fabric of even the wealthiest and most progressive societies. This elite unit monitors the application of labour law and social security to combat illegal and disguised employment, exploitation of labour in sweatshops, trafficking in human beings and works toward the elimination of inhuman working conditions, including slavery.

Documentary's URL: http://www.cultureunplugged.com/documentary/watch-online/festival/play/4154/Combat-Trafficking-With-Italian-Carabinieri-Labour-Inspectors#videoDetail

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European police break up Vietnamese human trafficking ring | Look At Vietnam - Vietnam news daily update

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June 29, 2010

LookAtVietnam - European police have broken up a network that illegally brought Vietnamese into the UK.

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Coordinated by Europol, police arrested 58 people after raiding houses in France, Germany, and Hungary on June 22. Of the 34 arrested in France, 14 were involved in the network in Paris and the northwestern region, while 20 were would-be immigrants. The German police seized five suspects and the Hungarian police caught 19.

According to police, the illegal migrants arrived in France via Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Germany. They traveled to the UK by road or by boat. The British, German, Hungarian, and French police have been watching illegal trafficking gangs for Vietnamese migrants for the last 18 months through a taskforce set up by Europol called the Vietnamese Organized Immigration Crime.

“One illegal immigrant needs to pay 9,000 to 10,000 euros (11,000 to 12,300 dollars) on the way to Europe,” revealed Zoltan Boross of the Hungarian National Bureau of Investigation.

“And if they do not have enough money, then they have to go work on a cannabis plantation for repayment,” he added. ”Since March 2009 these individuals operated in a very well tuned manner for a long period of time with the intent of financial gain.”

The smugglers, themselves Vietnamese, transported their clients to Europe via Moscow, Rome or Istanbul, and housed them in their own hotels in Budapest from where they relocated them to marijuana plantations in other parts of Europe, he explained.

“These immigrants are seriously exploited through cannabis production, extortion and crime, and often when caught, they don’t even know where they are,” Andre Baker, of the British Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), maintained.

“Currently the UK is the favourite destination for illegal immigrants from Vietnam smuggled through other European states,” he observed.

French Immigration Minister Eric Besson said Vietnamese migrants were smuggled into France from Hungary, the Czech Republic and Germany and hidden in special compartments in trucks and ferries en route to Britain.

Besson noted that the network was “very well-structured” with many international contacts and members with well-defined tasks such as providing shelter or handling finances. A special task force dealing with Vietnamese people smuggling was created 18 months ago after French authorities noticed a hike in arrests of migrants en route to Britain.

French border police reported a 200 percent increase in the number of would-be Vietnamese immigrants apprehended en route to Britain between 2008 and 2009.

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CBC News - World - German brothels raided in trafficking probe

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German authorities say they have searched around 600 brothels across the country in an effort to track down women who may have been smuggled from West Africa as part of an international human trafficking ring.

The Federal Criminal Police Office said Wednesday that Tuesday evening's raids turned up more than 100 women from West Africa and that there were indications that some were victims of human trafficking.

German investigators say the nationwide crackdown follows investigations that suggest a network of West Africans active in Germany and other European countries is involved in prostitution, human trafficking, passport forgery and other illegal activity.

About 63 per cent of the roughly 400,000 sex workers in Germany are migrants, the majority arriving from central and eastern Europe, according to 2008 figures from the European Network for HIV/STI Prevention and Health Promotion among Migrant Sex Workers, known by the acronym Tampep.

While prostitution in Germany is not illegal, migrants cannot obtain entry into Germany as a sex worker, meaning many who enter the country do so illegally.

This makes them more vulnerable to exploitation, Tampep said in their latest report on working conditions in the country.

Africa is the source of about 12 per cent of all migrant sex workers in Europe and accounts for about six per cent in Germany, according to Tampep.

Nigeria, Morocco, Cameroon, Sierra Leone and Algeria are the African countries most often cited by European officials as the countries of origin of migrant sex workers, some of whom are believed to have been brought into the countries through illegal means.
With files from the Associated Press

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