Knowledge: slavery
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- Anti-Slavery International
http://www.antislavery.org/ - Promotes the eradication of slavery and slavery-like practices, and freedom for everyone who is subjected to them.
- The American Anti-Slavery Group
http://www.iabolish.com/ - Monitors, documents, and publicizes the plight of slaves around the globe. Focuses on the worst and most-ignored cases of human bondage: black chattel slavery in North Africa. There may be more slaves today than ever before in history.
- Contemporary Forms of Slavery
http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu6/2/fs14.htm - Factsheet from the United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights.
- Review of Kevin Bales' 'Disposable People'
http://dannyreviews.com/h/Disposable_People.html - Book review of Kevin Bales' study of modern slavery, with case studies from Thailand, Mauritania, Pakistan, Brazil, and India.
- Unfinished Business: Tackling the Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism
http://www.africacentre.org.uk/Unfinishedbusinesspapers.htm - Papers from a conference at the Africa Centre, London, marking UN International Day for the Abolition of Slavery.
- Baltimore Anti-Slavery Society
http://users.erols.com/bcccsbs/bass/bass.html - Information and resources about slavery and forced labor systems in the modern world.
- Free the Slaves - Abolish Modern Slavery
http://www.freetheslaves.net/ - The Center of the Modern American Abolishionist Movement inspired by Kevin Bales' book, Disposable People, works to abolish slavery worldwide.
- Save A Slave
http://www.saveaslave.com/ - Information and education exchange on the plight of modern slavery, child slavery and prostitition around the world, particularly in Sudan, Mauritania, Sudan, China, India and Thailand.
- Abolish Slavery - Soon
http://uk.geocities.com/abolishslaverysoon/ - Campaign to help raise awareness about modern slavery and to highlight organizations working against it.
- Scientific American: The Social Psychology of Modern Slavery
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=0005F839-CC90-1CC6-B4A8809EC588EEDF - Contrary to conventional wisdom, slavery has not disappeared from the world. Social scientists are trying to explain its persistence Article by Kevin Bales.
- Knock Out Slavery
http://www.geocities.com/knockoutslavery/ - Information about modern slavery in the US and around the world.
- American Public Media's Marketplace: How, Where Human Trafficking Begins
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/shows/2006/05/25/PM200605256.html - How human trafficking works and why it flourishes. Report from Cambodia. [6:14 streaming audio broadcast, part 1 of 2]
- American Public Media's Marketplace: Selling Your Own Flesh and Blood
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/shows/2006/05/26/PM200605265.html - How human trafficking works and why it flourishes. Report from Cambodia. [6:37 streaming audio broadcast, part 2 of 2]
- TIPinAsia.info
http://tipinasia.info/ - Provides information on Asian trafficking in persons, of both sexes, in English, Khmer, Tetum and Thai.
- Stop the Traffik
http://www.stopthetraffik.org/ - Global coalition working together to help stop the sale of people, to see the traffickers prosecuted and to protect the victims of human trafficking and those vulnerable to this crime.
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