Here in northern India Members of the free the Slaves Organization have swung into action. Things have to move quickly before the factory owner finds out about the raid. The activists find twenty four boys on the ground they were yours here from their villages by human traffickers and in slave to. Do we thought we could earn money but all we got was abuse. Well you know we worked through eight in the evening until eight in the morning and if we made the slightest mistake they beat us. After a two hundred year struggle slavery is now officially outlawed in all nations the world over. But instances of slavery repeatedly occur rapidly growing populations fava t. And a lot of judicial systems have created a system of modern slavery. Slavery is a term from the dark days of the past but we know that it still exists in individual cases around the world we hear enough reports of forced prostitution here in germany but those are societys no go areas. And we wouldnt dream of buying products made by slaves would we. Few people realize what goes on under the plastic roofs in the spanish. Province of im area. Greenhouses cover an area equivalent to eighty thousand soccer pitches here. Fruit and winter vegetables are exported to other european countries. Much of the produce goes to german supermarkets. The finnish graphic artist village hit a vine and took a look inside the greenhouses and behind the scenes of a seemingly ideal world. More laws on one and i now have the feeling that i commit an offense by just entering a supermarket recall as if i were a criminal myself recorders in the. Ten years ago chitta vine and traveled extensively through spain and morocco he met a lot of people and heard their stories stories of Illegal Immigrants who were looking for a better life but ended up a slaves in the greenhouses of armenia. Hes written a moving graphic novel called invisible hand. The boat crossing cost two thousand five hundred euros. The people run up debts under the illusion l. Soon be able to earn enough to pay them off they risk their lives crossing the Narrow Strait between Northern Africa and spain in boats that are sea worthy. For many the dream of a better life already ends here in tragedy. Those who do manage to reach europe often end up as slaves in the huge fruit and vegetable plantations and i maybe. Just manage to eat it dont think that one quite cross it will. If the International Workers are housed on waste ground or put out with greenhouses used to stand. Next National Soil is contaminated with pesticides or fertilizers and suit that was sprayed here for decades tenacity have to also monitor and take you to their make their huts from things they find on the garbage my your car can lie just the thought of a kitten it has got by come by calling. Some forty thousand Illegal Immigrants work here in apparent. Escape is almost impossible. If they did reporting to bo handed over to the farm or praters by the police. The landowners sometimes pay them a measly wage sometimes nothing at all. Illegal workers have no rights. And all the money and all in an area of the authorities maybe arena house and the media work together. They control the media and make sure some things arent made public when used maybe maybe your head on a sign contracts with the local authorities and then regional politician so that the well oiled immigrant market continues to function of interest to avoid on. The farms are off limits to strangers no one wants any witnesses. To divine and distributed disposable cameras and persuaded workers to photograph the situation they were in. Thousands of photos were taken on which he based his drawing. As believe like the initial of the landowners in the traffickers have made a deal with your box office and not someone puts up money for a crossing me. For americans to call north african. People who come from further south these are huge sums of money to see your. Money level theyre supposed to pay off their debts by working that many take years before they can send any money back home some never manage it cause. Anyone whos no longer able to work is deported the world has a force to spray pesticides without protective clothing illnesses a common some even die under the hostile plastic roofs theres no medical aid not even clean water. The hygiene is atrocious nothing to do with a paradise on earth a team habit to stream doll of. The spaniards on tourism they dont get to see the migrants and the migrants never manage to get away for as long as they live and thats ortiz make sure its not just the border is always as poor as the need for workers dictates. The farm owners can sell work permits that bind these people to a certain employer so they cant get away. That theyre trapped by their debts. Welcome thank you for this. Slavery in modern day europe a continent proud of its humanistic values. To define and work caused a huge stir was translated into a number of languages and won numerous prizes. But did it change anything. To we got a lot of feedback from europe on politicians. They wanted to know how to get more information and were very effectively assured me that she was receiving priority preordered at least to like it and they wanted to make sure such things could not occur in europe as a part dela c. R. C. With us but as far as i know that was the end of it and on top of. One month it actually returned. Is slavery part and parcel of a Global Economy. It exists worldwide and the reports could fill a library full of graphic novel. By those who like cash average consumers dont go there yet the myth that maybe they hear rumors but as long as food is cheap theres no quest for concern in here to rest of really the. Many famous people are buried in londons westminster abbey. They include Charles DarwinCharles Dickens and many others. The grave of William Wilberforce is also here in eighteen zero seven after eighteen years of campaigning and opposing slavery he finally succeeded the first law banning the slave trade was passed after a ten hour parliamentary debate its now bad the world over but what does that mean so in the world today we know there are about thirty eight million slaves. We need kevin bales on the Channel Islands of guernsey. The social scientist heads the Wilberforce Institute for the study of slavery and emancipation. Bales is a renowned expert. When i first learned about modern slavery was back in the one nine hundred ninety s. And i picked up a leaflet at a public event and this leaflet said there are millions of slaves in the world today and i looked at it and i thought that that cant be true everyone knows slavery is finished it finished in the Nineteenth Century. That claim led to years of research. Bales entered a parallel world that he didnt think could possibly even exist. And that began for me a process of digging into the issue to look at the numbers first and i discovered it was true and that led me to see many things that horrified me when i got into the field and began to meet people in slavery its a very disturbing world the world that slaves live in. There are two basic differences between classic and modern day slavery its now illegal and yet slaves of cheaper than ever before. We know this through very clear research thats been done to show that in the past buying a slave was like buying a major piece of equipment like a big truck or a tractor or you know an investment and if you bought a slave you paid a lot of money it took a long time for them to pay off. The investment and and there were insurance policies to protect your slaves because they were worth the invest. In the south of the us a slave used to cost the equivalent of up to thirty thousand dollars in todays money. Now in some areas of the world you can get a slave for just fifty dollars. Poverty and overpopulation and provide new slaves and if theyre no longer needed they can just be discarded. I can think of children that ive seen in nepal who are used to carry stone and if they fall down if they break their leg they just leave them they just throw them away because its too expensive to bring a doctor its less expensive to buy another child. Bale found slavery in many nations around the world. Its become a basic part of the Global Economy. Where theres certainly a connection between modern slavery and the highest ranks of International Companies in the exactly the same way that theres a connection between modern slavery and each one of us who are consumers so anyone along the supply chain and that includes the heads of Big Companies as well as us are linked to that slavery. India likes to be seen as a modern nation the Worlds Largest democracy with a growing industry and prospering small scale companies. But behind the facade you can encounter mediaval scenes. Allegedly there are seventeen to twenty million the slave. Local Aid Organizations refer to sixty million. Many dialects the untouchables traditionally born into slavery in india. That. Supriya of us an activist with free the slaves is visiting a Village Community of former slaves. These people got a Second Chance and now live in freedom. But the Aid Organization leads an almost hopeless battle against a system of crime corruption and slavery in india slaves can be found in brothels and private homes rice mills factories and quarries on farms and especially often in brick works. To litter a bit when it is searched and there are people who are working with there are entirely in slavery one hundred person slaves and the reason for this is that this whole industry is huge and just controlled by a violent and put and in order to control hundreds of people the slave owners threatened them. Even while and they have killed people in slavery in the clintons. The slaves in the brickworks and other industries often fall victim to debt sometimes the equivalent of just ten or twenty euros often several generations of entire families are tricked into becoming slaves many of them are unable to read or write and have no financial oversight bonded labor was banned in india in one nine hundred seventy six but in this rural area no one seems bothered by that corrupt authorities make sure thats the case. Cheap bricks mean cheap factory Construction Costs and cheap products local slavery creates an economy that can produce chief export goods. This is my Fathers House he looks like how we define sleeveless anybody whos held us physically on the islands are not paid are paid below minimum wages and thats exactly what we witnessed when we were conducting this rescue operation the people were not paid they were physically confined they were under surveillance all the time the women were sexually abused the children were beaten and they were made to work as. The organization managed to free more than four thousand five hundred slaves in india from twenty thirteen to twenty fourteen and bring one hundred thirty slave holders to trial. Information sessions like this one aimed to warn people of the risk of slavery. But the toughest challenge is to offer prospects to those freed from slavery. Some can return to their villages but others end up back in captivity. They have no choice either they become slaves or they stop. Every rescue operation is really on. We do not know what will come out of it how far the people have gone hahaha many years there have been slavery. All we know is that we have to organize them because its them who could sustain their freedom. The Aid Organizations are faced with millions of slaves and their work is getting harder. The current government has decided to ignore the problem and keep silent about it as much as possible. India sees itself as a modern nation with a reputation to uphold. Slavery just doesnt fit into a twenty First Century society. The n. G. O. S that work against slavery around the world they are very small. But theyre also the most effective of all the organizations that do anything about slavery if you look and say who is bringing slaves to freedom who is freeing slaves the greatest number of slaves being freed is not by governments its by the n. G. O. S sector. Every year tens of thousands of children in indias poor northeastern states are sent into slavery under the eyes of the author at ease. They arrive in socalled children train. The traffickers receive the equivalent of about twelve euros per child. Connection of slate of people in slavery to the person in the in the rich part of the world but there can be several ways that the supply chains connect us through carpets through food through fish through jewelry through shoes theres a lot of products that can come out of india and in doubt in our lives including tombstones. Back in wealthy europe weve come to copenhagen to meet danish journalist mickey mr r. T. He came across a direct link between slave work and a product on our daily Shopping List chocolate. Well actually it began in my local supermarket as a consumer i went down for buying a chocolate bar and at the supermarket. There were seven chocolate bus. They were actually the same judge just with different flavor and one of their the chocolate bar had a fair trademark and i was just wondering ok you have seven chapters one is fair trade with about the six other chocolate boss are the on fair trade. In his search for the invisible hand that harvest the cocoa beans for our chocolate bars misrati traveled to west africa. Ivory coast is one of the worlds leading cocoa bean produces some eighty percent of the cocoa found in the chocolate sold in european supermarkets comes from here harvested by child slaves they come from even more. Poor countries their neighbor countries like mali been in fourteen a fast so need jack and all the surrounding countries so its the children comes from countries with which are more poor and this is also the problem. In this area. According to one unicef report some two hundred thousand children are abducted in west africa every year. Many become slaves illegal slave markets are held in the northern regions of ivory coast farmers can shop in the new workers. So you can go to a market and you can buy children and you can also go to even go to a plantation where where where where i did i actually did go to cocoa plantations and asking pretending that i want to buy children from my own cocoa plantation and he told me well yes just tell me what do you need and i will get some children from a book enough fassero. And i was hacking ok how much does it cost me and he told me two hundred and thirty euros and that was big without backing so you can get a children very easy two hundred and thirty euros and then you will have a child who can work for free in your cocoa fields in west africa. And we crave chocolate every german eats an average of eleven kilos of a day here. Most of the cocoa beans come from west africa mainly ghana and ivory coast. Parents hand over their children to traffickers forced by poverty and led astray by false promises. When they go to the poor who feel most of them think that they will get a pain but they dont get it they are as modern slaves in this cocoa freeze so they try to ran away i have been meeting boys who ran their way who flee from the cocoa fields they were from mali for instance and they told me how they were beaten up every day and they succeeded to ran away from the cocoa fields but the n. R. A. Able to go home far because going home is to what this is a matter of poverty and the family thought they were. Maybe earning money at the cocoa food so they have problems going home. In two thousand and one in the International Cocoa agreement large firms such as nestle and mas agreed to ensure that child labor in the chocolate industry would be a thing of the past by two thousand and five. In twenty ten mr r. T. Wanted to see if that was true. But nothing had changed. The plantations were full of child slaves he tried to get a statement from nestle for his film but they declined. So he started an offensive he traveled to switzerland to nestles headquarters to provoke a response and they came without hesitation. And there weeks after i remembered that i got some calls from my german or broadcasters because they were contacted by the nestle headquarter in frankfurt and dates wired to close down the film they were asking a question for the for the german their television how could we do this film blah blah blah and. The german my german broadcaster they say everything is ok all facts are ok so we are running and broadcasting the film which was very important of course for me but they tried to stop the film. In certain ways the documentary entitled the dark side of chocolate became an International Success the companys promise to improve things and announced aid projects mistrusts he wanted to show in a second film that things had indeed changed but his application for a visa for ivory coast was rejected. So its off money a big big business so the government dont think that a guy like me should come to interfere with the business because they are doing a very close cooperation with for instance nestle which is very powerful in ivory coast they have been nestle has been ivory coast more than fifty years so there is a close relationship between the government in ivory coast and nestle on the other side. Finally he managed to secure an interview with nestling they denied all knowledge and promised to intervene the film was screened the world over except in switzerland the home of nestle. This research broadcaster i think were afraid of nestle to show this film i do not have to prove but they boarded they knew before what the film was about and they also had the copy of the film so. I think in my opinion i think they was afraid of nestle in switzerland and didnt dare to show it. The manufacturers dont want us to see the dark images that locked behind the glossy packaging. But as long as there is no fair trade label it remains unclear under what conditions are chocolate is pretty just. World today slavery is absolutely one part of the Global Economy why are slaves today so inexpensive why is the price of a human being why are