18th October EU Day Against Trafficking

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On 18th October, the European Union marks the anti-trafficking day.



The BBC recently revealed that at least 400 African children had been identified as having been trafficked to the UK. A Frontex Risk Analysis report found that 6,991 potential trafficked persons were reported by 27 EU countries in 2009, up 34% on the 2008 figure of 5,200 potential victims. Of the total, almost 25% of identified victims were men and 15% were minors. These are known figures of identified persons, whilst an even bigger number go unnoticed.




EU Anti - trafficking day: Not my life, film screening

18 October 2013 - EU Anti - trafficking day: “Not my life” film screening

On the occasion of the EU Anti-trafficking day, the European Commission is organising a screening of the film "Not My Life" by Robert Bilheimer, a documentary depicting the horrifying and dangerous practices of trafficking in human beings on a global scale, filmed on five continents over a period of four years.

source: European Commission





A film about slavery in our time. A story about the way the world is.

Not My Life is the first documentary film to depict the horrifying and dangerous practices of human trafficking and modern slavery on a global scale.

Filmed on five continents over a period of four years, Not My Life unflinchingly, but with enormous dignity and compassion, depicts the unspeakable practices of a multi-billion dollar global industry whose profits, as the film's narration says, "are built on the backs and in the beds of our planet's youth."

While acknowledging that trafficking and slavery are universal crimes, affecting millions of human beings all over the world, Not My Life zeroes in on the fact that the vast majority of trafficking and slavery victims are indeed children. This fundamental truth, says the film's director, Oscar® nominee Robert Bilheimer, raises profound questions about the very nature of our civilization. "What kind of society cannibalizes its own children?" Bilheimer asks. "Can we do these sorts of things on such a large scale and still call ourselves human in any meaningful sense of the term?"

Not My Life features dignified and inspiring testimony from survivors; depictions of trafficking, exploitation, and slavery in all parts of the world including forced labor in Africa; street begging and garbage picking in India; sexual trafficking in the United States and Southeast Asia; and various forms of child enslavement and abuse in both North and South America