Film Clips
GoodWeave featured on CNN Freedom Project series
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Nepal Crisis Pushing Children into Slavery, produced by CNN GoodWeave is among leading anti-slavery organizations followed by the CNN Freedom Project to fight modern slavery, a year-long global initiative looking to untangle the complicated web of criminal enterprises trading in human life. This piece explores the economics of child labor in the rug industry. Follow up pieces showcasing GoodWeave’s direct work with rescued child laborers in Nepal and the organization's unique market-based approach to ending child labor in the rug industry are below. Streaming video (3:26; YouTube) |
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GoodWeave Works to End Nepal Child Labor video by CNN This piece features exclusive footage of GoodWeave's operations in Nepal, revealing the the lives of rescued children. GoodWeave is among leading anti-slavery organizations followed by the CNN Freedom Project to fight modern slavery. Streaming video (3:33; YouTube) |
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Certifying Your Rug is Slave Labor-Free, produced by CNN Learn about GoodWeave’s unique market-based approach to ending child labor in the rug industry. GoodWeave is among leading anti-slavery organizations followed by the CNN Freedom Project to fight modern slavery, a year-long global initiative looking to untangle the complicated web of criminal enterprises trading in human life. Streaming video (3:26; YouTube) |
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View clips on GoodWeave and child labor below. You can also find film clips by GoodWeave staff and volunteers here.
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Not My Life Film Trailer The first documentary film to depict the horrifying and dangerous practices of human trafficking and modern slavery on a global scale. Filmed on five continents over a period of four years, Not My Life unflinchingly, but with enormous dignity and compassion, depicts the unspeakable practices of a multi-billion dollar global industry whose profits, as the film’s narration says, “ are built on the backs and in the beds of our planet’s youth.” For more information, visit the Not My Life website. Streaming video (2:37; vimeo.com) |
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MSNBC's Tom Snowden's Report on Ending Child Labor with Handmade Rugs A story on the power of the GoodWeave certification to mobilize consumers and motivate South Asian rug producers to stop using child labor, featuring interviews with Nina Smith, U. Roberto Romano, Ajay Singh Karki, Stephanie Odegard, and others, with images from Faces of Freedom and footage evidencing child labor behind the looms. Streaming video (3:34; msnbc.com) |
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GoodWeave Campaign Video Winter 2010 Streaming Video (YouTube) |
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CNN Documentary series on "Social Entrepreneurs" highlights GoodWeave (formerly RugMark) and founder Kailash Satyarthi Streaming Video (CNN.com) |
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GoodWeave EXCELs
GoodWeave’s Nina Smith won the 2012 Excellence in Chief Executive Leadership (EXCEL) Award, which honors Washington-area nonprofit leaders who demonstrate innovation, motivation, community building, inclusiveness and ethical integrity.
Best in America
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