CinemaOSMovie · 2009 · 1h 30m

Fatal Promises

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Every year, an estimated 800,000 persons are trafficked across international borders and forced into sexual or labour servitude. Estimates are that as many as 32 million people yearly are held in slave-like conditions for sexual or labour exploitation, 2.4 million of these individuals as a result of being trafficked. They are promised good jobs or pay, but end up forced into prostitution or working in servitude for no pay. They are emotionally and physically brutalized, starved, forced to work extremely long hours, stripped of their passports and locked away, and eventually discarded or worse, murdered. Eight years after the United Nations established the Palermo Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, "Fatal Promises" offers a comprehensive look at the realities on the ground versus the rhetoric of today.

Directed byKat Rohrer

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Status
Released
Runtime
1h 30m
Language
EN
Released
April 1, 2009
Budget
$200,000
Studios
GreenKat Productions

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Directed by
Kat Rohrer
Written by
Kat Rohrer

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