Educate Yourself
sites to see
notforsalecampaign.org
The Not For Sale Campaign is a nation-wide initiative to end slavery through open source activism
freetheslaves.net
Free the Slaves is an organization that liberates slaves around the world, helps them rebuild their lives, and researches real world solutions to eradicate slavery forever.
iabolish.org
The American Anti-Slavery Group (AASG) is a nonprofit organization that works with former victims of human trafficking to abolish modern-day slavery, focusing primarily on systems of chattel slavery in Sudan and Mauritania.
polarisproject.org
Named after the North Star that guided slaves towards freedom along the Underground Railroad, Polaris Project has been providing a comprehensive approach to combating human trafficking and modern-day slavery since 2002.
love146.org
Love146 works toward the abolition of child sex slavery and exploitation through Prevention and Aftercare.
slaverymap.org
SlaveryMap exists to record and display instances of human trafficking across the globe.
callandresponse.com
CALL+RESPONSE is a documentary film on modern day slavery that has inspired an activist movement.
heartlandalliance.org
The Heartland Alliance is a human rights advocacy and service group that is responsible for much of the counter-trafficking and victim assistance in the Midwest
missingkids.com
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children's (NCMEC) mission is to help prevent child abduction and sexual exploitation; help find missing children; and assist victims of child abduction and sexual exploitation, their families, and the professionals who serve them.
Illinois Rescue and Restore Coalition
The Illinois Rescue and Restore Coalition is a network of agencies and organizations involved with countering human-trafficking or providing services to victims.
National Human Trafficking Resource Center
The National Human Trafficking Resource Center operates under the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.
ice.gov
ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) is the largest investigative organization and is run by the federal government. Their primary focuses include human trafficking, human smuggling and border security.
books to read
Not for Sale, by David Batstone
Batstone exposes the alarming rise of one of the great moral crises of the day, human slavery. His well-written accounts of victims and survivors will inspire you to join the growing twenty-first century abolitionist movement.
Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy, Kevin Bales
Slavery is illegal throughout the world, yet more than twenty-seven million people are still trapped in one of history's oldest social institutions. Kevin Bales's disturbing story of contemporary slavery reaches from Pakistan's brick kilns and Thailand's brothels to various multinational corporations. His investigations reveal how the tragic emergence of a "new slavery" is inextricably linked to the global economy.
Ending Slavery: How We Free Today's Slaves, Kevin Bales
Bales provides a guide for eliminating the plague of slavery that continues to this day, involving some 27 million slaves worldwide producing $13 billion in goods and services. Bales provides a thorough overview of slavery, including its history, its methods, the lives of its victims around the world and the conditions under which it flourishes; most importantly, Bales has put together guides to action at every level, from the individual to the community to the United Nations, in a six-point plan that includes protecting, arming and cloning "the liberators," enacting and enforcing effective antislavery legislation and, perhaps most important, helping freed slaves heal.
Good News About Justice, by Gary Haugen
This book offers stories of courageous Christians who stood up for justice and mercy and also calls the Body of Christ into action.
Terrify No More, by Gary Haugen
Focuses on the dramatic rescue story of 5-year-old children in the village outside of Phnom Pehn, and uses flashbacks to tell those of many other victims who were given a second chance at life by IJM.
A Crime So Monstrous, by Benjamin Skinner
Today there are more slaves than at any time in history, according to journalist Skinner's report on current and former slaves and slave dealers. Skinner's travelogue-cum-indictment focuses most sharply on Haiti, Sudan, Romania and India, and is interspersed with a detailed account of the work of John Miller, director of the State Department Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, or America's antislavery czar. Skinner's account of the internal workings of the State Department and the deep links to faith-based antislavery groups and their special interests is seriously newsworthy and, at times, moving.
Sex Trafficking 2008, by Siddharth Kara
Kara, a former investment banker and executive, uses theoretical economics and business analysis to propose measures that could eradicate sex trafficking by undermining the profitability of the illegal activities associated with the crime.
The War on Human Trafficking, by Anthony DeStefano
The War on Human Trafficking covers the policy battles surrounding efforts to abolish human trafficking. Anthony M. DeStefano details events leading up to the creation of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 1000--the federal law that first addressed this phenomenon--and assesses the effectiveness and aftermath of the law. DeStefano also describes the tensions created as the Bush Administration used trafficking laws to attack prostitution and shows how the American response to these criminal activities was influenced by the events of September 11th and the war in Iraq. This important book gets beyond sensational stories of sexual servitude and explains the powerful economic conditions that impel immigrants to put themselves at risk.
