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"Bombay Buskers", released in 1993, looks at the lives
of eight-year-old Nagarjuna and other young itinerant musicians who work
on Bombay's vast railway system. A story of remarkable survival in India's
city of dreams.
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information.
"Angels with Dirty Faces", co-produced in I997 with
international trade unions and NGO's, revealed the plight of South Asia's 80 million child
workers -- and told a story of slavery, stolen childhood and cheap goods for western
consumers. "Angels" has been broadcast in some 15 countries, among them the USA,
France, Germany, Denmark, Finland and Norway; Spain, Portugal, Eire and Israel.
"Colombia: Getting away with Murder", a 1994
co-production with Amnesty International, exposed the widespread abuse of human rights in
the South American nation by government-sponsored death squads and revealed the horrors of
"social cleansing", judicial murders and "disappearances".
Our television news and current affairs output has featured special
reports on Child Soldiers in Liberia, the Aids pandemic in India and exclusive footage
shot inside the brutal prisons of Venezuela.
In 1996, and again in 1998, Parachute scored a world exclusive when we
proved conclusively that children, some as young as five-years-old, were making footballs
for the European and World Cup soccer championships.
In more detail, here is a list of special reports:
| "LIBERIA'S CHILDREN OF
WAR": |
| A SPECIAL TWO-PART REPORT FOR SKY TELEVISION.
FOOTAGE ALSO BROADCAST BY THE BBC, AND CBS AND ABC IN THE UNITED STATES. |
"VENEZUELAN CATIA PRISON MASSACRE": |
| A VIDEO NEWS RELEASE FOR AMNESTY
INTERNATIONAL. |
"THE CHILD SLAVES OF SIVAKASI": |
| AN UNDERCOVER REPORT ON THE 45,000 CHILD
WORKERS IN THE MATCH AND FIREWORKS INDUSTRIES IN SIVAKASI, TAMIL NADU, INDIA -- THE
LARGEST CONCENTRATION OF CHILD WORKERS IN THE WORLD. BROADCAST BY THE BBC, ABC AUSTRALIA,
DUCTH TV AND HONG KONG TV. |
"AIDS AND PROSTITUTION IN BOMBAY": |
| A SPECIAL EIGHT-MINUTE REPORT FOR SKY TV'S
"THE REPORTERS" PROGRAMME. FOOTAGE ALSO BROADCAST BY CHANNEL 4 NEWS LONDON,
EURO NEWS FRANCE, TBS TOKYO, HONG KONG TV AND TAIWAN TV. |
"TRADE UNION RIGHTS, 1995": |
| AN 18-MINUTE VNR FOR THE INTERNATIONAL
CONFEDERATION OF FREE TRADE UNIONS (ICFTU) IN BRUSSELS. SEQUENCES USED BY ABC AUSTRALIA,
BBC WORLD, REUTERS AND WTN. |
"HELL FOR LEATHER": |
| AN EXCLUSIVE 10-MINUTE REPORT ON THE
ESTIMATED 25,000 CHILD SOCCER BALL STITCHERS IN THE PAKISTANI CITY OF SIALKOT. CO-PRODUCED
IN 1996 WITH AN ALLIANCE OF INTERNATIONAL TRADES UNIONS. BROADCAST IN UNITED STATES, U.K.,
AND THROUGHOUT EUROPEAN MAINLAND. |
"BOUQUET OF BARBED FLOWERS": |
| AN EXCLUSIVE 1997 REPORT FROM COLOMBIA AND
UGANDA ON THE ILLEGAL USE OF PESTICIDES IN THE EXPORT FLOWER INDUSTRY. BROADCAST BY
THE BBC, ITN, IKON PRODUCTIONS HOLLAND AND RTL GERMANY. |
"DIAMONDS AND GEMSTONES": |
| A 1997 VNR FOR THE UNIVERSAL ALLIANCE OF
DIAMOND WORKERS ON CHILD LABOUR IN THE INDIAN DIAMOND INDUSTRY. BROADCAST IN THE UNITED
STATES, ISRAEL, BRAZIL AND EUROPE. |
"UNDER THE KNIFE": |
| AN INVESTIGATION OF HOW SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS
EXPORTED TO THE WEST ARE MADE BY YOUNG BOYS IN PAKISTAN. SPONSORED BY THE ICFTU, IT WAS
RELEASED IN JUNE 1998, AND BROADCAST THROUGHOUT EUROPE. |
"WORLD CUP FOOTBALLS 1998": |
| EXCLUSIVE PARACHUTE REPORT ON CHILD LABOUR IN
PAKISTAN. BROADCAST TO DATE BY FRANCE 2, ARTE FRANCE, RTBF BELGIUM, TV SUISSE AND
META BERLIN. |
Parachute's most recent reports have included stories on child labour in
Malawi's Tobacco industry; an undercover investigation of the sex trade and Western
paedophiles in The Philippines; exploitation of female workers in Mexico's border assembly
plants -- and a short documentary on workers in India's ship-breaking and coal-mining
industries. |
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