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# WHY SLAVERY? Selling Children
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/doc-world/episode/why-slavery-selling-children-yevstg/
- Published: 2024-04-02T22:50:49.000Z
- Updated: 2025-05-28T05:09:21.000Z
- Description: Is poverty, illiteracy and corruption raising a generation of children for sale?
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: Doc World, Season 4, Episode 11, #ZZZ_Episode_c4eda356-b4ab-4bda-9fe6-712fd53719bf, #episode, #ZZZ_Show_9465c414-dfa5-4739-85b0-2b204758369e, #v1.13

In India, millions of vulnerable children are bought and sold. Far removed from the issue of child slavery until a family maid suffers a devastating loss, filmmaker Pankaj Johar travels the country to understand and expose the ways in which poverty, illiteracy and corruption conspire to provide a breeding ground for child trafficking in the world's largest democracy.