The RF has launched a new phase of terror against Mariupol. Residents who survived Russian bombing and artillery shelling are now being forcibly deported to Russia.
She's a young woman from Ghana who came to Lebanon just over a year ago and who says she’s been subjected to abuse, sexual assault and hasn’t been paid in months.
With rare access, Sky News has filmed her escape to freedom as she flees the household she’s working in, and tries to find a way back home to Ghana.
HBO Max has pulled "Gone with the Wind" from its library of films.
The removal of the film comes as mass protests sweep across the United States following the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who was killed while in police custody.
The removal also comes after John Ridley, the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of "12 Years a Slave," wrote an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times this week asking HBO Max to take the film out of its rotation.
"It is a film that glorifies the antebellum south. It is a film that, when it is not ignoring the horrors of slavery, pauses only to perpetuate some of the most painful stereotypes of people of color," Ridley wrote.
"The movie had the very best talents in Hollywood at that time working together to sentimentalize a history that never was."
Ridley made it clear that he didn't want "Gone with the Wind" to be "relegated to a vault in Burbank," California, but rather be taken down for a "respectful amount of time."
"Let me be real clear: I don't believe in censorship," Ridley wrote. "I would just ask, after a respectful amount of time has passed, that the film be re-introduced to the HBO Max platform along with other films that give a more broad-based and complete picture of what slavery and the Confederacy truly were."
Ridley added that the film "could be paired with conversations about narratives and why it's important to have many voices sharing stories from different perspectives rather than merely those reinforcing the views of the prevailing culture."
HBO removed "Gone With The Wind" because of "racial overtones" therefore removing history of the first black person to ever win an Oscar, Hattie McDaniel. And today is her birthday. June 10, 1893. Happy Birthday, as your legacy is trampled upon. pic.twitter.com/FbmfSZEOLM
— Anthony Brian Logan (ABL) 🇺🇸 (@ANTHONYBLOGAN) June 10, 2020
President Trump should set up a projector and huge screen on the front lawn of the White House and do a double feature of Gone with the Wind and Blazing Saddles until all the protesters leave.
HBO Max has temporarily removed the 1939 film “Gone with the Wind” from its streaming service amid renewed criticism it romanticizes the Confederacy while glossing over the horrors of slavery. https://t.co/OJYcEyCuvX
Huge numbers of people in Russia work under slave-like conditions. Many have been trafficked, all are exploited. An NGO is fighting to stop slave labor. [Online until: 13.09.2018]
According to estimates, up to a million people in the Russian Federation work under slave-like conditions. On the basis of absolute numbers, this places Russia in seventh place on the most recent Global Slavery Index to be published by the human rights organization Walk Free Foundation. Many of the ‘slaves’ were violently abducted. Politicians and society as a whole are silent on the problem. Around the world about forty million are victims of slavery. In addition 152 million girls and boys are forced into child labor, according to current UN reports. One of the estimated million people in the Russian Federation working in slave-like conditions is Sasha. He lived near the Russian capital and went to Moscow in search of work. He put himself in the hands of a trafficker who drugged him. Sasha woke up in the Caucasian republic of Dagestan, in a brickyard. He spent weeks working there for no wages until he was liberated by volunteers from the aid organization Alternativa. "I was scared I would be killed if I ran away," says Sasha, now back in Moscow. Alexey Nikitin and Zakir Ismailov are the brains behind Alternativa. This documentary accompanies them as they try to track down missing people - in the brickyards and on the farms of former Soviet republics, but also in Moscow itself. "In Russia people are enslaved by their own fellow-citizens," says Alexey. "That doesn’t happen anywhere else in Europe.” An attorney in labor law and a leading state prosecutor explain the legal loopholes used by the exploiters. They help provide answers to the question: why is Eastern Europe ensnared by modern slavery? This film is based on the joint research of the filmmakers and the British newspaper The Guardian.
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Thousands of women and girls are being trafficked to Italy from Nigeria, into a life of forced prostitution.
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Abused
and desperately vulnerable, they have a champion in Princess Okokon,
who was herself trafficked from Nigeria in 1999. Okokon fled her
captors, and, with her husband, Alberto, set up the NGO Piam Onus.
Together they have helped hundreds of women in Asti and Sicily to escape
their traffickers, giving them refuge and support.
There
are at least 8.4 million child slaves in the world today. Nearly two
million of these are forced to work as prostitutes, while almost half a
million are child soldiers.
But the largest proportion of child slaves - more than five million - are held as forced labour.
In
some countries, these child slaves are simply juvenile victims of a
thriving adult slave culture, but in other countries children are bought
and sold specifically as child labourers.
In this episode of Slavery: A 21st Century Evil, Rageh Omaar investigates the plight of child slaves in Haiti.
They
are known as 'restaveks' from the French words 'rester avec', meaning
'to stay with'. This is the practice of poor families giving their
children as domestic help to wealthier acquaintances or relatives.
As well as taking place within Haiti, this form of slavery can also involve children being sold or trafficked to the US.
Our
investigation exposes the slave traders who lure these children from
isolated villages and then sell them to wealthy families.
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