Join us to mark World Day Against Child Labour
DESERT RIDERS + Q&A
with Anti-Slavery International
Screening Thursday 14th June | Tricycle Cinema | £7/5 concs
Camel racing is big business in the UAE, but the jockeys are children
brutally mistreated, removed from their families and forced into races where accidents can be lethal.
Desert Riders gives us a shocking look behind the scenes of camel racing in the wealthy United Arab Emirates – a sport that grew from local to international prominence in the 1980s. Suspicious accidents, undernourishment, sleep deprivation, rape, growth-retarding injections; the stories of young veteran jockeys Rafiq, Nasir, Ronnie, Amirul, Lokmon, Mobarak and Hasan are truly appalling. SEE THE TRAILER
‘Vic Sarin’s hot-button expose documentary Desert Riders peels back the curtain on thousands of boys trafficked to the Middle East’ (Playback)
DocHouse will be joined by Catherine Turner from Anti-Slavery International for a panel discussion on campaigning for the end of child labour. Catherine is the Child Labour Programme Coordinator at Anti-Slavery International, researching and advocating on child slavery issues there since 2002. Previously, she was Deputy Representative to the UN in Geneva for Amnesty International and worked for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Anti-Slavery International worked closely with director Victor Sarin on the production of DESERT RIDERS and were instrumental in the campaign to end camel racing in the United Arab Emirates.
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