{"id":31288,"date":"2017-01-10T11:04:40","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T10:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/?p=31288"},"modified":"2017-01-10T11:04:40","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T10:04:40","slug":"sold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/sold\/","title":{"rendered":"Sold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The United Nations and the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) invited you to the screening of &#8216;Sold&#8217; to raise awareness of human trafficking.<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31290\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31290\" style=\"width: 175px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-31290\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.unric.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/12\/sold-film-cover.jpg\" alt=\"Sold film poster\" width=\"175\" height=\"259\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31290\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Runtime: 94&#8242;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a title=\"Sold the Movie, Website\" href=\"https:\/\/www.soldthemovie.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">SOLD <\/a>is a feature film adaptation of the globally acclaimed novel by Patricia McCormick.<\/p>\n<p>Based on true stories, SOLD is the story of Lakshmi who journeys from a pastoral, rural village in Nepal to a gritty brothel\/prison called &#8216;Happiness House&#8217; in Kolkata, India. Through one extraordinary girl\u2019s story, SOLD illustrates the brutality of child trafficking, which affects millions of children around the globe every year. Globally the average age of a trafficked girl is thirteen, the same age as the girl in the film. SOLD is a call to action, and a testament to the power and resilience of the human spirit.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Opening remarks by Gon\u00e7alo Lobo Xavier, Vice President of EESC and Deborah Seward, Director of UNRIC<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The film was followed by an interactive discussion with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ozark Henry<\/strong> &#8211; UNODC Goodwill Ambassador and musician,<\/li>\n<li><strong>Irene Wintermayr<\/strong> &#8211; ILO, Policy Officer,<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cornelius Williams<\/strong> &#8211; UNICEF Global Chief of Child Protection (TBC),<\/li>\n<li><strong>Madi Sharma<\/strong> &#8211; Member of EESC,<\/li>\n<li>&amp; moderated by<strong> Goedele Liekens<\/strong> &#8211; UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador and media personality.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations and the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) invited you to the screening of &#8216;Sold&#8217; to raise awareness of human trafficking. SOLD is a feature film adaptation of the globally acclaimed novel by Patricia McCormick. Based on true stories, SOLD is the story of Lakshmi who journeys from a pastoral, rural village [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":31292,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[732,741],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}