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# WHY SLAVERY? Selling Children | Trailer
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/doc-world/trailers/why-slavery-selling-children-trailer/
- Published: 2024-04-02T22:50:57.000Z
- Updated: 2025-08-20T13:15:20.000Z
- Description: Is poverty, illiteracy and corruption raising a generation of children for sale?
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: Doc World, #ZZZ_Show_9465c414-dfa5-4739-85b0-2b204758369e, #geo-us, #v1.5, #ZZZ_Trailer_2e695dce-7130-4aec-8a9b-24012dd4ce1a, #trailer

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.