17th Annual Seattle Human Rights Film Festival presented by Amnesty International
February 5th – 8th, 2009 Seattle, USA
More information: http://www.shrff.org/
New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival (NOLA)
March 26th - April 5th, 2009
Find out more on: http://www.nolahumanrights.org/
4éme Festival de films sur les droits de la personne - 4th Filmfestival on Human Rights.
12-22 March 2009 Montreal, Canada
More on: http://ffdpm.com/2009/eng/home/
Human Rights Watch Travelling film festival 2008/2009. Find out more on:
http://www.hrw.org/iff/2007/traveling/
Europe next Door
Director: Zelimir Zilnik, Documentary film project, 2004;
The final preparations for the big change in Serbian neighborhood are on the way: in spring of 2004. Hungary will became a member of EU, Slovenia as well (being the first one among former Yugoslav republics).Border crossings on the Serbian north-Horgos, Djala and Kelebia-will become the gates of united Europe, likewise all the border crossing between Slovenia and Croatia.
Fortress Europe
Yugoslavia 2001, see: Transitmigration.org/homearchiv.html;
People of different nationalities from Central Europe attempting to reach the West by crossing the controls and "European" rules. Starting from reality, the director reconstructed some stories and chose the cast both among people who experienced them and fledgling actors. They reconstruct these stories, and perhaps fake them, through the answers they give to the (Hungarian, Slovenian, Italian and Croatian) custom officers and to the author's questions.
Human Trafficking
USA, 2005, Director: Christian Duguay
Hundreds of thousands of young women have vanished from their everyday lives-forced by violence into a hellish existence of brutality and prostitution. They're a profitable commodity in the multi-billion-dollar industry of modern slavery. The underworld calls them human traffic. When a sixteen-year-old girl from the Ukraine, a single mother from Russia, an orphaned seventeen-year-old girl from Romania, and a twelve-year-old American tourist become the victims of international sex slave traffickers, a specialized team of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) struggles to expose the worldwide network that has enslaved them.
Jarmark Europa
Director: Minze Tummescheid, Germany 2004, Multilingual with English subtitels;
"Jarmark Europa" at Warsaw's Dziesieciolecia Stadium, is one of Eastern Europe's largest bazaars and a centre for small trade that doesn't appear on any tax declarations. The traders come from a variety of countries in the former Soviet Union. They transport their goods to Warsaw or other cities west of the ex- USSR in unmistakeable bags.
Trade
USA 2007, 119 min., Director: Marco Kreuzpainter
When 13-year-old Adriana is kidnapped by sex traffickers in Mexico City, her 17-year-old brother, Jorge, sets off on a desperate mission to save her. Adriana is trapped by an underground network of international thugs who earn millions exploiting their human cargo, and her only friend throughout the ordeal is Veronica, a young Polish woman captured by the same criminal gang. As Jorge dodges overwhelming obstacles to track the girl's abductors, he meets Ray, a Texas cop whose own loss of family leads him to become an ally. From the barrios of Mexico City and the treacherous Rio Grande border, to a secret Internet sex-slave auction and a tense confrontation at a stash house in suburban New Jersey, Ray and Jorge forge a close bond as they frantically try to catch up with Adriana's kidnappers before she is sold and disappears into a brutal underworld from which few victims ever return.
Schwenken, H.: Irregular Migration: European Union Policies, 2008
Human Rights Documents on Refugees and Asylum
Central Human Rights Conventions Overview related to (forced) Migration
Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings, 2005
European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights, 1950
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination