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SLAVERY? IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY?
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Critically acclaimed film Beloved
will be premiered on Friday 26 February at the Ritzy Cinema, Brixton
as part of the 1999 Human Rights Watch International Film Festival.
The film, based on the novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Toni
Morrison, stars Oprah Winfrey as a former slave whose past comes back
to haunt her.
Anti-Slavery International, a London-based human rights group, has
campaigned to end slavery since the trans-Atlantic slave trade. During
the festival, the organisation will display a powerful exhibition
which shows that slavery stills exists.
Children trafficked for profit between countries in West Africa; whole
families kept like cattle on agricultural estates in South Asia; the
organised export of women into domestic slavery in Europe - this is
slavery in the 1990s.
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