Justice versus Conscience

The Dark side of Chocolate: Child Labour and Cocoa Slavery

The Dark Side of chocolate: child slaves and child trafficing in the chocolate industry for harvesting cocoa bones.

——

Undercover in a Bangladesh clothing factory

The lives of the many people and places behind our clothes.

Many of the clothes sold in American stores come from factories in Bangladesh, which has a history of workplace disasters. Following the factory collapse last month that killed over 1,000 people, Holly Williams went undercover to see what the conditions are really like.

——

Qatar World Cup 2022

Dying for the World Cup. Qatar World Cup Costs 6,500 Workers Their Lives. The urgly side of the beautiful game.
Trapped in Slave-like conditions.

——

Shipbreaking Yards

It’s one of the most jaw-dropping sights of the modern world. For as far as the eye can see, along a stretch of coastline in Bangladesh, hundreds of mammoth supertankers lie beached on the sand. This is where the world’s ships come to die. Tim joins the thousands of workers, some of them children, who are paid just 47 cents a day to break up these rusting giants with their bare hands.

——

Rosa Parks 1955

Civil rights activist Rosa Parks (February 4, 1913 to October 24, 2005) refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a segregated Montgomery, Alabama bus, which spurred on the 381-day Montgomery Bus Boycott that helped launch nationwide efforts to end segregation of public facilities.

——

The darker side of Residential Schools

Residential schools “inflicted profound injustices” on Aboriginal people. “The children who attended residential schools were treated as if they were offenders and were at risk of being physically and sexually abused,” the TRC says. (TRC = Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada)

When they complained of abuse, the students were often ignored.
Years later, when they launched civil lawsuits, they found the legal system was stacked against them “in a way that often re-victimized the survivors.”

Wawahte: Stories of Residential School Survivors – FULL DOCUMENTARY

——

Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries

Tuam, a quiet town in the west of Ireland. Tuam, a name that traumatised the whole of Ireland in the spring of 2014, when an unimaginable story was revealed. A hidden mass grave containing the remains of some 800 children was discovered on the former grounds of a home for single mothers, a hell on earth where children died from ill treatment, and were shamefully buried in secret and forgotten. Up until the 1990s, dozens of these detention centres were run by religious orders, but the country is still reluctant to confront the ghosts of its past.

——

Serious war crimes

A culture of secrecy, fabrication and deceit has cast a heavy shadow over the legacy of the Australian special forces deployment in Afghanistan.

The Brereton report into alleged war crimes by Australian special forces in Afghanistan has found credible evidence that Australian SAS soldiers were involved in the murder of 39 Afghan civilians. The alleged incidents have been described as a ‘disgraceful and a profound betrayal of the Australian defence force’, and include evidence that junior soldiers were coerced to execute prisoners to achieve their first kill in a process known as ‘blooding’.

——

Sanda Dia

Sanda was a young civil engineering student at the KU Leuven who wanted to join a student association in Belgium, he was subjected to several trials like drinking litters of alcohol and fish oil, eating living mice, eels and fishes. The 17 perpetrators have tried to hide what happened, have deleted all the messages and every proof of what happened. The members of the student association only had to do some community service and write an essay on their actions.
When a student dies due to other students, writing a paper is out of proportion!