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FRONTLINE; Sex Slaves
02/07/2006
WGBH EDITED MASTER 4X3 FULL FRAME TRT 00;56;46;00
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- Series
- FRONTLINE
- Program
- Sex Slaves
- Program Number
2408K1
- Series Description
Premiered January 1983 Since January 1983, FRONTLINE has served as American public television's - PBS - flagship public affairs series. Hailed upon its television broadcast debut as "the last best hope for broadcast documentaries," FRONTLINE's stature over 23 years is reaffirmed each week through incisive documentaries covering the scope and complexity of the human experience. Series release date: 1/1983
- Program Description
An estimated half-million women are trafficked annually for the purpose of sexual slavery. The women are kidnapped -- or lured by traffickers who prey on their dreams of employment abroad - then they are "exported" to Europe, the Middle East, the United States and elsewhere, where they are sold to pimps, drugged, terrorized, locked in brothels and raped repeatedly. In Eastern Europe, since the fall of communism, sex trafficking has become the fastest growing form of organized crime, with Moldova and Ukraine widely seen as the centers of the global trade in women and girls. FRONTLINE presents a unique hidden camera look at this world of sexual slavery, talking with traffickers and their victims, and exposing the government indifference that allows the abuses to continue virtually unchecked. "Sex Slaves" also follows the remarkable journey of one man determined to find his trafficked wife by posing as a trafficker himself to buy back her freedom.
- Duration
00:56:46
- Asset Type
Broadcast program
- Media Type
Video
- Genres
- Documentary
- Topics
- Public Affairs
- News
- Citation
- Chicago: “FRONTLINE; Sex Slaves,” 02/07/2006, GBH Archives, accessed January 24, 2022, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_A863BEF4F1FE4131BA3ADD5089243DA2.
- MLA: “FRONTLINE; Sex Slaves.” 02/07/2006. GBH Archives. Web. January 24, 2022. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_A863BEF4F1FE4131BA3ADD5089243DA2>.
- APA: FRONTLINE; Sex Slaves. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_A863BEF4F1FE4131BA3ADD5089243DA2