Sex Trafficking in the USA

Community Cinema ~ A Path Appears: Sex Trafficking in the USA

Monday, January 26, 2015 - 6:30pm to 7:30pm
  • Library Hall

A film by Maro Chermayeff

A Path Appears: Sex Trafficking in the USA investigates young women in America forced into a life of prostitution and the innovative programs that have evolved to achieve remarkable results in empowering their lives. Sex trafficking and prostitution. Domestic slavery. Teen pregnancy. The devastation of poverty. These troubling situations are happening not just halfway across the world, but also in our own backyards — in Chicago and Nashville and Boston.

From the creative team that brought you the groundbreaking Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, the four-hour series A Path Appears will air on PBS as a special presentation of Independent Lens in early 2015 as part of the Women and Girls Lead initiative. With Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporters Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn and a number of celebrity activists as guides A Path Appears journeys across the country and around the globe to drive home shocking stories of gender inequality and vulnerability.

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