Weather was milder but the festive spirit just a strong fifty thousand lisbon locals came out to see the Christmas Lights turned on and had their night let up by some colorful street performers. Two million lights will eliminate the city until the festive period ends on the sixth of january. More from us at the top of the hour as ever in the meantime dont forget you can always get the latest updates from our web site at b. W. Dot com up next here on g. W. A documentary on modern day slavery. Germany is a strong country. That we have achieved so much we can do this and if something him to resign we must overcome it. Going where its uncomfortable global news that matters w made for mines. 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. Love and unity 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 for the tea and a lack 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 grooves in the spanish. Province of. 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 or less 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 but ten years ago chitta vine and travelled 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 as 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 theyll 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 egypt on pit of one of quite questionable. The International Workers are housed on ways 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 part of a guesstimate asked by come by calling. Some forty thousand Illegal Immigrants work here in apparent. Escape is almost impossible. If they did report into bo handed over to the farm or breakers by the police. The landowners sometimes pay them a measly wage sometimes nothing at all. Illegal workers have no rights. To you know marry at all in an area the authorities maybe arena house and the media work together. They control the media and make sure some things arent made public. Maybe maybe are hidden on a sign contracts with the local authorities and then regional politicians so that the well oiled immigrant market continues to function of interest to the board 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 believed like an initial of the landowners in the traffickers have made a deal with your boxers and not someone puts up money for crossing me. For americans to call north african. People who come from further south these are huge sums of money to see your. Money where theyre supposed to pay off their debts by working i think that many take years before they can send any money back home some never manage it because. Anyone who is no longer able to work is deported the work 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 fifteen habitant stream dolphin. The spaniards had tourists 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 it was 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. Divine and as work caused a huge stir it was translated into a number of languages and won numerous prizes. But did it change anything. To we got a lot of feedback from european politicians. They wanted to know how to get more information. Right back to reassure me that if she was receiving priority reordered at least the like canadian they wanted to make sure such things could not occur in europe as a part dallas here are still 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. Values who look kosher 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 read three books are very. 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. And over population 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. Bails found slavery in many nations around the world. Its become a basic part of a 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 slain. Local Aid Organizations referred to sixty million. Many dialects the untouchables traditionally born into slavery in india. 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. The literal beginning is searched and there are people who are working as 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 violence and threat and in order to control hundreds of people the slave owners than them they 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 that is 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 a full house really looks like how we define. Anybody whos helped us physically on the islands are not paid or 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 of you know is that we have to organize them because its them who quits 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