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1 online resource (streaming video file) (49 min. 53 sec.) ; 301343686 bytes |
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Thousands of children vanish in India every year to be sold or held for ransom. Dateline follows the rescuers trying to reunite them with their families; Designer jeans come at a high price for shoppers and those who made them - some are dying after working in toxic conditions and; Germany's green movement is leading the way in renewable energy, but could its power be under threat from government cuts?KIDNAPPED!India's wealth is growing, and so is the demand for household workers in the expanding middle class, but it's brought with it an epidemic of child kidnappings. On Tuesday, Evan Williams reports from Delhi on the thousands of children who vanish from the streets every year. Many are sold as domestic workers or brides, facing abuse and virtual slavery, with no way of contacting their families. Others are held for ransom and sometimes never seen again. While the authorities show little interest in child trafficking, activists and charity workers take on responsibility for rescuing the victims. Evan travels with one team of child savers and a missing girl's parents as they try and find their lost daughter, and he hears the horrifying tale of a 12-year-old left for dead at the bottom of a well.FASHION VICTIMSDesigner jeans with a fashionable scruffy look are popular around the world, but some have come at a high price for both the consumer and the people who made them. Tuesday's Dateline meets workers in Turkey who used to sandblast jeans with no protection against the toxic dust... now their lungs are full of sand and they're dying from silicosis. It's estimated 5,000 could be affected - most of the nearly 50 who've already died were less than 30-years-old. The technique is now outlawed in Europe, but that means no one wants to take full responsibility for the health problems left behind. So who is fighting for the rights of these ill and impoverished families? And how can we be sure workers elsewhere aren't facing the same fate?POWER PLAYGermany leads the world in renewable energy... villages are powering themselves with solar and wind energy and selling the excess to the national grid. David O'Shea visits Schoenau in the Black Forest, where residents literally seized power after the Chernobyl disaster by buying the local power plant and turning it into a cooperative. Now the Fukushima disaster has brought renewed interest in their success, along with a pledge by Chancellor Angela Merkel to close all Germany's nuclear reactors. But a fall in government subsidies is threatening to cut the supply of money to small producers and there's concern the green movement could lose some of its power |
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Broadcast 2012-04-17 at 21:30:00 |
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Classification: NC |
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Clothing workers -- Health and hygiene.
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Kidnapping -- Prevention.
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Nuclear reactors -- Government policy.
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Renewable energy sources -- Economic aspects.
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Silicosis.
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Child trafficking.
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Turkey.
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Germany.
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India.
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Streaming video
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Hakim, Yalda, host
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O'Shea, David, reporter
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Strobl, Victoria, reporter
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Williams, Evan, reporter
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Erdmann, Georg, contributor
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Frohwitter, Werner, contributor
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Kilicaslan, Zeki, contributor
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Love, David, contributor
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Rhibu, Bhuwan, contributor
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Sladek, Ursula, contributor
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Stegen, Eva, contributor
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