Human Trafficking

Acerca de Human Trafficking

Resumen

Human Trafficking es una miniserie de televisión sobre un agente de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas de Estados Unidos que trabaja encubierto para detener a una organización dedicada al tráfico de personas, y muestra las dificultades de tres mujeres víctimas de trata. Se estrenó en Estados Unidos en Lifetime Television el 24 y 25 de octubre de 2005 y se emitió en Canadá en Citytv el 2 y 3 de enero de 2006. Está protagonizada por Mira Sorvino, Donald Sutherland, Rémy Girard y Robert Carlyle. Trama En Praga, República Checa, la madre soltera Helena (Isabelle Blais) es seducida por un hombre exitoso y atractivo y viaja con él a pasar un fin de semana en Viena, Austria. Luego la vende a una red de trata de personas y la llevan a la ciudad de Nueva York para trabajar como esclava sexual. En Kiev, Ucrania, la adolescente de dieciséis años Nadia (Laurence Leboeuf) participa en un concurso de modelaje sin el conocimiento de su padre. Es seleccionada por la agencia de modelos falsa para viajar a Nueva York con las otras candidatas seleccionadas, donde se ve obligada a una vida de esclavitud sexual. Nadia y Helena son colocadas en la misma casa en Washington y se hacen amigas. En Manila, Filipinas, la turista estadounidense de doce años Annie Gray (Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse) es secuestrada frente a su madre en una calle concurrida por tratantes de personas. Es obligada a un burdel infantil que atiende principalmente a turistas sexuales, supervisado por un hombre australiano, Tommy. En común, las chicas se convierten en víctimas de una poderosa red internacional de tratantes de personas liderada por el poderoso Sergei Karpovich (Robert Carlyle).

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Notable quotes

“If my present theme were the institution of slavery in general, I should endeavour to show that it has been a mighty instrument not for evil only, but for good in the providential order of the world. Almighty God, in His mysterious ways, has poured down blessings even through servitude itself, by awakening the spirit of sacrifice on the one hand, and the spirit of charity on the other.”
— Lord Acton, Historical Studies and Essays (1907), pp. 135–36
“When the slave auctioneer asked in what he was proficient, he replied, "In ruling people."”
— Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 74
“There are and always will be some who, ashamed of the behavior of their ancestors, try to prove that slavery wasn't so bad after all, that its evils and its cruelty were the exaggerations of propagandists and not the habitual lot of the slaves. Men will say (and accept) anything in order to foster national pride or soothe a troubled conscience.”
— C. L. R. James, The Black Jacobins (1938), p. 13
“States are much at variance in the civic character giving to free persons of colour; those of most of the States, not excepting such as have abolished slavery, imposing various disqualifications, which degrade them from the rank and rights of white persons. All these perplexities develop more and more the dreadful fruitfulness of the original sin of the African trade.”
— James Madison, Letter to General Marquis de Lafayette (25 November 1820), Montpelier
“A healthy man owes to the sick all that he can do for them. An educated man owes to the ignorant all that he can do for them. A free man owes to the world’s slaves all that he can do for them. And what is to be done is more, much more, than good works, Christmas baskets, bonuses and tips and bread and circuses. There is only one thing to be done with slaves… free them.”
— Orson Welles, Moral Indebtedness (October 1943)
“That execrable sum of all villanies commonly called the Slave-trade.”
— John Wesley, Journal (12 February 1792)

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