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• Sex Slaves in America
A tragic but all too familiar tale. Young women in eastern Europe chasing dreams of a better life. But lured instead into sexual slavery. Sophia : These half-drunk men are examining me, and I realize my life depends on them. Enticed by fake ads and ...
• Author: America’s issues are evergreen
As a state legislator, he had become a champion of a cause—The Cause—of ending a system of slavery that, at its root, denied the basic, elemental humanity of the people it enslaved. With increasing sophistication and determination, he argued that ...
• Passover 101: What you need to know
The most widely celebrated Jewish festival, Passover (which begins at sundown April 19), also known by its Hebrew name Pesach, commemorates the ancient Israelites' liberation from Egyptian slavery. At a Passover Seder, a celebratory meal, the story of ...
• Continuing the dialogue: The David Wilsons answer viewer questions
Wilson: I would think Ana wrote these comments prior to watching the film as I would hope that she heard my comment about slavery. I think this film is suggesting to people that we can make progress with our relationships if we avoid putting all the ...
• Man meets ancestor's slaveowner
Wilson, a descendant of the white Southern family that owned his ancestors during the slavery era. Wilson, now 30, a veteran of ABC, CBS and Fox News, said it was “about creating a dialogue for America as a whole.” “What you have in the two of us ...

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» Abolish Slavery - Soon - Campaign to help raise awareness about modern slavery and to highlight organizations working against it.
» American Anti-Slavery Group - Monitors, documents, publicizes modern-day slavery and works with former victims of human trafficking to abolish this practice, focusing primarily on systems of chattel slavery in Sudan and Mauritania.
» Anti-Slavery International - Promotes the eradication of slavery and slavery-like practices, and freedom for everyone who is subjected to them.
» Baltimore Anti-Slavery Society - Information and resources about slavery and forced labor systems in the modern world.
» Contemporary Forms of Slavery - Factsheet from the United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights.
» Free the Slaves - Abolish Modern Slavery - The Center of the Modern American Abolishionist Movement inspired by Kevin Bales' book, Disposable People, works to abolish slavery worldwide.
» Knock Out Slavery - Information about modern slavery in the US and around the world.
» Review of Kevin Bales' 'Disposable People' - Book review of Kevin Bales' study of modern slavery, with case studies from Thailand, Mauritania, Pakistan, Brazil, and India.
» Scientific American: The Social Psychology of Modern Slavery - Contrary to conventional wisdom, slavery has not disappeared from the world. Social scientists are trying to explain its persistence Article by Kevin Bales.
» Stop the Traffik - 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.
» TIPinAsia.info - Provides information on Asian trafficking in persons, of both sexes, in English, Khmer, Tetum and Thai.


» American Public Media's Marketplace: How, Where Human Trafficking Begins - How human trafficking works and why it flourishes. Report from Cambodia. [6:14 streaming audio broadcast, part 1 of 2] (May, 2006)
» American Public Media's Marketplace: Selling Your Own Flesh and Blood - How human trafficking works and why it flourishes. Report from Cambodia. [6:37 streaming audio broadcast, part 2 of 2] (May, 2006)