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Karla
Karla Jacinto Romero was trafficked by a
22
-year-old man at the age of 12, and enslaved until the age of 16 in brothels, roadside motels and homes in Guadalajara and other cities in Mexico. She estimates that she was raped 43,000 times, by 30 people
Sadia
brides – 4,451,000. In 2017 59% of girls in Bangladesh were married before their 18th birthday and
22
% were married before the age of 15.
Thanit
is house, farm and land to pay the recruiter’s fees that would take him to the United States. When he arrived in Hawaii, Thanit was housed in a small building with
22
other workers.
Carnival: The Hidden Truth
A carnival of dance held at Moggerhanger Park in Bedfordshire in Summer
2008
to mark the bicentenary. The project was led by arts organisation T. Hop (The H'art of Performance) with schoolchildren from Stephenson Lower and Moggerhanger Lower School
2008
Frederick Douglass
In
2008
, muralist K. Fitch painted a mural of Frederick Douglass in the abolitionist's former home town of Rochester, New York. The mural depicts Douglass in the later years of his life. It had been destoyed by 2014.
2008
Tubman, Douglass, Mandela
This mural was created in
2008
by an unknown artist. Painted on a storefront on Ralph Avenue in Brooklyn, it depicted Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass and Nelson Mandela. As of 2014, it no longer existed.
2008
Kunwar
, working as a bonded labourer until he was
22
, with his final debt being paid off when he was 33.
Piyara
, with a 'conditioning' period involving violence, threats, debt bondage and rape.
Piyara was
22
years old working in a garment factory in Dhaka when a woman called Joynob proposed to take her to Kolkata to do the same work. However, upon arrival she
LL
this trend is on the decline.
Contrary to what she was promised in her contract, 26-year-old LL had to wake up at 03:30 and work all day without proper breaks until 21:30 or
22
:00.
Hamid
to Egyptian traffickers in Sinai who have subjected at least hundreds to violence in order to extort large sums of money from their relatives.
Hamid*, a
22
-year-old Eritrean man, was trafficked from Sudan to Egypt in June 2011.
Noor
at the hands of their captors.
Noor is
22
. She was kidnapped by ISIS in 2012, from Kojo in Northern Iraq. She was held captive for several months, suffering daily rape and horrific torture. Incredibly, she managed to escape and today, she
Slavery and the British Country House
identified 26 properties with some level of connection to slavery or abolition. As a result, more detailed surveys of four sites - Bolsover Castle, Brodsworth Hall, Marble Hill and Northington Grange - were commissioned in
2008
, and the findings presented
2008
Angela
and slept on hallway floors for two and half years. The FBI rescued Angela and several other workers in
2008
. Angela testified against her trafficker in criminal court and the woman received a five-year prison sentence. Angela is now a survivor-organizer
Dreams of an African Child
. The drama centres on the reactions of a rural African family when their teenage son, missing presumed dead, returns home to his family after being sold eight years before. The play was first performed in Accra in 2004, and then in
2008
toured schools
2008
The Freedom Sculpture
. The Freedom Sculpture was opened in the school grounds in November
2008
by Shami Chakrabarti of Liberty, the civil liberties advocacy group. 2007-
2008
Seba
to her. Seeing her scars, the neighbor called the police and the French Committee against Modern Slavery (CCEM). Medical examinations confirmed that Seba had been tortured. In her narrative, which she told at the age of
22
, Seba focuses on her
Gracie
after a year of sexual abuse and confinement. Told she should seek asylum Gracie appealed to the immigration office, however her passport had been faked to state she was
22
rather than 15 and she was arrested for document forgery. With the help
Khawng Nu
women find themselves either deceived by promises of employment, sold or abducted and forced into marrying Chinese men who have paid for them.
Khawng Nu was
22
years old when she was trafficked from the state of Kachin, northern Myanmar
JH
required weekly day off.
JH, a
22
-year-old woman trafficked from Malang to Hong Kong, ran away after two months because her employer physically assaulted her on multiple occasions.
Ali
was trafficked at the age of
22
, in Philadelphia, USA. Heroin addiction led to Ali living on the streets, to prostitution and ultimately, to being trafficked. She was on the streets for five years. This is her story in her own words.
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