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not my life
Not My Life
Not My Life comprehensively depicts the cruel and dehumanizing practices of human trafficking and modern slavery on a global scale.
Filmed on five continents, in a dozen countries, Not My Life takes viewers into a world where millions of children are exploited through an astonishing array of practices including forced labor, sex tourism, sexual exploitation, and child soldiering.
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Not My Life is being used as a tool to educate communities worldwide about the millions of children, women, and men who are exploited every day through an astonishing array of practices including forced labor, domestic servitude, begging, sex tourism, sexual violence, and child soldiering. Since its release, Not My Life has reached millions of people through public screening and community events, television broadcasts, and in classrooms and homes around the world.
Not My Life has reached a broad, global viewership through a rich network of partners that include: NGOs; UN agencies; corporations and their CSR initiatives; international development and law enforcement agencies; faith-based communities; and student groups.
Director: Robert Bilheimer
Narration: Glenn Close
Released: 2012
Duration: 64 minutes
team
not my life
Financial support
foundations
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The Greenbaum Foundation
The Curtis L. Carlson Family Foundation
The Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation
The Grace Jones Richardson Trust
Marcia Brady Tucker Foundation
Ramsey Merriam Fund
Stardust Fund
The Matheis Family Trust
BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company)
Johnny Montagnese, Carriage House Recording Studio
Naguib Sawiris, Orascom Telecom Holding
Nasser Sayed Abdellatif, Latif Group
R & A Realty
businesses & corporations
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governmental agencies
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United Nations Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking (UN.GIFT)
Cleveland Park Congregationalist United Church of Christ, Mike Davis
Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs, Austria
Foundation "United Internet for UNICEF"
ngos
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William Scheffler and Ann Sheffer
Spencer Stuart
individuals
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