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USA: LOS ANGELES: LAWSUIT FILED AGAINST US CORPORATION UNOCAL
English/Nat
In Los Angeles a lawsuit has been filed against the American corporation, Unocal, claiming its gas pipe line venture in Burma is using thousands of people for slave labour.
The case was filed Wednesday on behalf of exiled...
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WRAP Rebel leaders found guilty of crimes against humanity ADDS file
25 February 2009
1. Wide exterior of court
2. Wide of people walking into court
3. Interior of courtroom
4. Accused Revolutionary United Front (RUF) members entering court
5. Various of accused Issa Hassan Sesay shaking hands with...
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More than a decade ago, 10-year-old Shyima Hall came to America. She was forced to sleep in a cold garage at night and work as a maid during the day for an affluent Southern California family. Now the former child slave has become a U-S citizen.
HEADLINE:Former child maid from Egypt becomes US citizen
CAPTION: More than a decade ago, 10-year-old Shyima Hall came to this country. She was forced to sleep in a cold garage at night and spend her days working as a maid for...
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Court exteriors, headlines on first day of trial
March 16 2009
1. Wide exterior of court building
2. Wide of media on platform in front of building
3. Cutaway of cameraman
4. Mid of journalists conducting interview in front of courthouse
5. Close-up of two policemen at entrance of...
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Malaysia, Cuba taken of trafficking blacklist
RESTRICTION SUMMARY: AP CLIENTS ONLYSHOTLISTDOS TV - AP CLIENTS ONLYWashington DC - 27 July 20151. Wide of attendees entering trafficking ceremony 2. SOUNDBITE (English) John Kerry, US Secretary of State:"It's a battle against money,...
AFP News Agency
VOICED: Myanmar refugees fear being sent back
Refugees from Myanmar fear their lives will be at risk if the Thai government follows through on its intention to close down their camps and send them back over the border. Mae La Camp, Thailand. (Footage by AFP/Getty Images)
Bloomberg
Chinese Solar Billionaire Doubles Fortune Despite Sanctions
About a year ago, the US sanctioned trade with a little-known Chinese company at the heart of the solar energy supply chain. But now, a year later, the sanctions have yet to prove successful. Shares of Hoshine Silicon Industry Co. are up...
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French aid workers jailed in Chad arrive home
1. Wide of security outside airport
2. Various of police convoy leaving airport compound carrying jailed French charity workers
3. Various of supporters with banners
4. Mid of Christine Peligat, wife of jailed charity worker Alain...
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Chinese demonstrators seeking compensation for WW2 forced labour
1. Wide of protest by victims', families of victims and supporters with flags in front of Tokyo High Court
2. Mid of victim in wheelchair with family
3. Wide of protesters lined up with people passing by
4. Photo of man that was treated...
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Surveillance video shown at forced-labor trial
HEADLINE: Surveillance video shown at forced-labor trial
CAPTION: New video and photos have been released in the trial of a wealthy Long Island couple accused of torturing two illegal immigrants who were allegedly kept as slaves. (Oct....
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Preview to Sunday's elections
Tokyo - 12 July 2007
1. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe addressing crowd during election campaign
2. UPSOUND (Japanese) Shinzo Abe, Japanese Prime Minister :
"I cannot just be satisfied with the success (of reforms) alone. I need...
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New initiative to prevent human trafficking
1. Wide shot central Moscow
2. Mid shot young Russian women
3. Wide shot young women sitting
4. Young girls chatting
5. Tilt up woman
6. Young woman stalked by middle-aged man
7. Pan across from interior of safe house for victims of...
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USA: WASHINGTON: HARRY WU ACCUSATION AGAINST THE WORLD BANK
English/Nat
Former Chinese prisoner Harry Wu has accused the World Bank of helping to finance prison labour in China.
Before a U-S Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Wu alleged that the bank helped fund a water project in northwest...
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Six charity workers convicted of kidnapping in Chad in court, families, lawyers
1. Policemen outside courtroom
2. Agnes Breteau, ex-wife of Eric Breteau, talking with friend
3. Various of Antonia Van Winkelberg, wife of doctor Philippe Van Winkelberg, coming out of courtroom, crying
4. Antonia Van Winkelberg hugging...
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UNICEF chief talks, child protection teams, orphans
Galle, Sri Lanka
1. Wide shot of children''s camp
2. Reporters interviewing children through UNICEF officer
3. UNICEF officer
4. Wide shot of children playing on seesaw
5. Children making faces at camera
6. Various of UNICEF officer with...
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DV Forced Labor
HEADLINE: Couple faces new charges in NY ``slave' case
CAPTION: Attorneys for a millionaire couple accused of keeping two Indonesian women as virtual slaves in their New York mansion shrugged off a new 12-count federal indictment on...
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For almost a quarter of a century, Josef Fritzl allegedly held his daughter as a sex slave in a cramped, rat-infested cellar where he fathered seven children with her.
HEADLINE: Austrian incest trial starts amid tight security
CAPTION: The trial of an Austrian man who allegedly held his daughter as a sex slave for 24 years and fathered her seven children starts Monday amid tight security and intense...
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : London police rescue three women held capt
CLEAN : London police rescue three women held capt
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Nigerian women exploited as prostitutes in Italy
Italian police in the Sicilian town of Catania have arrested and charged 11 people with illegally trafficking a group of women from Nigeria in order to exploit them as sex slaves.The women, all under the age of 25, were brought to Italy...
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Witness Recalls DC Pizzeria Suspect Encounter
Court records show a man charged with a firing a rifle inside a pizzeria surrendered peacefully after he told authorities he failed to find evidence that the Washington, D.C., eatery was secretly harboring child sex...
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ONLY ON AP NKorea sends workers to Gulf nations
America's most valued Arab allies host thousands of North Korean labourers, whose wages help Pyongyang evade sanctions and build the missiles now threatening the US and its Asian partners, officials and analysts say.
From...
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China’s Deals Stumble in the West
Dec.22 -- China is hitting road blocks in the West over its investment plans in Europe and Canada. The U.S. wants the EU to slow talks on an agreement with Beijing opening up market access. The Canadian government has rejected a plan by...
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SOUTH KOREA: SEOUL: POLICE STOP WOMAN FROM BURNING EFFIGY
Korean/Nat
Riot police stopped South Korean women from burning an effigy outside the Japanese Embassy in Seoul in protest at the way Japanese soldiers used women as sex slaves during the Second World War.
In April a Japanese court...
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Six charity workers convicted of kidnapping in Chad appear in court, lawyers
1. Tilt up from Creteil courthouse sign to building
2. Journalists waiting outside courthouse
3. Van with Zoe's Ark members arriving at courthouse
Defence Attorney for Zoe's Ark Gilbert Collart arriving
4. SOUNDBITE: (French) Gilbert...