Trafficking Stories

Stella

I wake to the sound of pounding. My mother is pounding groundnuts. She’s singing, her song keeping time with her pounding.

Nyambura.

When my sister Precious left home I was lonely and missed her every day. She was five years older than me and I always looked up to her.

Lydia.

Lydia, from Poland, was chaperoned daily to a brothel in Italy and her movements were controlled. When she returned each day,

Julia.

Aged 17, Julia was given clothes and boots and a bag of condoms and told to do anything that clients wanted.

Iris was a University student when she was abducted and forced into prostitution. After her ordeal and dramatic escape from the traffickers who held her captive,

“I am really troubled that men – strangers abused my body, it was heinous. Even when my heart was bleeding I had to smile. Although tormented and on the verge of death I really desired to live.

Ivan– Winner of Unchosen’s Best International Film on Modern Slavery- announced 15 March, 2018.

Directed by Jan Husar,