June 23, 2010 By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF Sports stars often make headlines with spectacular misconduct, and they don’t use their celebrity enough to make the world a better place. But every now and then, along […]
Mauritania (Tier 3) Mauritania is a source and destination country for men, women, and children subjected to trafficking in persons, specifically conditions of forced labor and commercial sexual exploitation. Some women, men, and children from […]
By Swathi Mehta, Tufts University Overview In Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy, Dr. Kevin Bales estimates that there are at least 27 million slaves in the world today – more than at […]
Millions trapped in foreign lands, forced to work under the threat of violence Anita Sharma Bhattarai, a Nepali woman, had faced a difficult life: Her husband mistreated her and the children and when she separated […]
From India to Indiana, more people are enslaved today than ever before By Charles Jacobs, President, American Anti-Slavery Group In 1993, Abdul Momen traveled to the town of Tungipara, 25 miles from Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, […]
The civil rights community must respond to the disturbing rise in cases of involuntary servitude in the United States. By Jesse Sage, Former Associate Director, American Anti-Slavery Group Published by the U.S. Commission on Civil […]
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