Foreign Policy Blogs

2009

At Issue: Slavery Today
ed. Ronnie Lankford
(Blog Author Cassandra Clifford is featured alongside other great abolitionist authors like E. Benjamin Skinner and Ambassador Mark P. Lagon)

The Slave Next Door
Kevin Bales

Sex Trafficking : Inside the Business of Modern Slavery
Siddharth Kara

2008

To Plead Our Own Cause: Personal Stories by Today’s Slaves
Edited by Kevin Bales and Zoe Trodd

The Road of Lost Innocence
Somaly Mam

Globalization, Prostitution and Sex-Trafficking: Corporeal Politics
Elina Penttinen

A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery
E. Benjamin Skinner

2007

Buying Freedom: The Ethics and Economics of Slave Redemption
Kevin Bales

Ending Slavery: How We Free Today’s Slaves
Kevin Bales

Not For Sale: Return of the Global Slave Trade and How We Can Fight It
David Batstone

God Grew Tired Of Us: A Memoir
John Bul Dau and Michael Sweeney

Shame of War: Sexual Violence Against Women and Girls in Conflict
Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN)

Nobodies:Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy
John Bowe

A Long Way Gone: Memories of A Boy Soldier
Ishmael Beah

Girl Soldier: A Story of Hope for Uganda’s Children
Faith H. McDonnell and Grace Akallo

2006

Bitter Chocolate: Investigating the Dark Side of the World’s Most Seductive Sweet
Carol Off

Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves
Adam Hochschild

Sold
Patricia McCormick

Enslaved: True Stories of Modern Day Slavery
edited by Jessie Sage and Liora Kasten, forward by Gloria Steneim.

2005

Compilation of Reports From the Conference on “Trafficking of Human Beings and Migration
Anti-Slavery International

Understanding Global Slavery: A Reader
Kevin Bales

Children in the Global Sex Trade
Julia O’Connell Davidson

They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan
Alphonsion Deng, Benson Deng, Benjamin Ajak, and Judy A. Bernstein

Fertile Fields: Trafficking in Persons in Central Asia: A Report
Liz Kelly (International Organization for Migration)

Data and Research on Human Trafficking: A Global Survey
Frank Laczko

The Natashas: Inside the New Global Sex Trade
Victor Malarek

Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers and Copycats are Hijacking the Global Economy
Moises Naim

Sex Trafficking: The Global Market in Women and Children

Kathryn Farr

Children at War
P.W. Singer

Female Genital Mutilation: Legal, Cultural And Medical Issues
Rosemarie Skaine

2004

The Political Economy of New Slavery
Christien van den Anker

What’s Love Got to Do With It Transnational Desires and Sex Tourism in the Dominican Republic
Denise Brennan

Kids as Commodities? Child Trafficking and What to Do About It
Mike Dottridge

In Contempt of Fate
Beatrice Fernando

Prostitution, Trafficking and Traumatic Stress
Melissa Farley

Woman, Child‚ For Sale: The New Slave Trade in the 21st Century
Gilbert King

Human Traffic: Sex Slaves and Immigration
Craig McGill

2003

Prostitution and Traumatic Stress

Melissa Farely

Escape from Slavery: The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity and My Journey to Freedom in America
Francis Bok

Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy
Barbara Ehrebreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild

Slave
Mende Nazer

Trafficking in Persons: Prosecution from an European Perspective
Conny Rijken

Slavery in the Twentieth Century: The Evolution of a Global Problem
Suzanne Miers

Combating Human Trafficking in Asia: A Resource Guide to International and Regional Legal Instruments, Political Commitments and Recommended Practices
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific

2002

Gender, Trafficking, and Slavery
Rachel Masika

Comfort Women: Sexual Slavery in the Japanese Military During World War II
Yoshiaki Yoshimi

2001

Global Human Smuggling: Comparative Perspectives
David Kyle

Sex Slaves: The Trafficking of Women in Asia
Louise Brown

Sex Tourism: Marginal Peoples and Liminalities
Chris Ryan and C. Michael Hall

2000

Fallen Angels: The Sex Workers of South Asia
edited by John Frederick and Thomas Kelly

Dream Freedom
Sonia Levitin

A Promise to Nadia
Zana Muhsen

Female Genital Mutilation: A Practical Guide to Worldwide Laws & Policies
Anika Rahman and Nahid Toubia

With These Hands

Daniel Rothenberg

1999

Disposable People
Kevin Bales

1998

Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children: Youth Involved in Prostitution, Pornography & Sex Trafficking
Laura A. Barnitz

King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa
Adam Hochschild

Modern Slavery and the Global Economy (Ideas in Conflict Series)
Gary E. McCuen

Restavec: From Haitian Slave Child to Middle Class American
Jean-Robert Cadet

1997

Tara: The Flesh Trade Odyssey
Matthew S. Friedman

The Traffic in Women: Human Realities of the International Sex Trade
Siriporn Skrobanek

1996

Without Mercy
Miriam Ali-Jana Wain

1995

Bitter Winds: A Memoir of My Years in China’s Gulag
Harry Wu

1994

Sold
Zana Mushen

1993

Slavery: A World History
Milton Metzler

1991

Enslaved: The Chilling Modern-Day Story of Abduction and Abuse in the Global Trafficking of Men, Women and Children
Gordon Thomas

1990

Enslaved: Investigation Into Modern-Day Slavery
Gordon Thomas

1987

Sugar and Modern Slavery: A Tale of Two Countries
Roger Plant

 

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