Not for sale : the return of the global slave trade-- and how we can fight it /
Return of the global slave trade -- and how we can fight it
David Batstone.
- 1st ed.
- New York : HarperSanFrancisco, c2007.
- 301 p. ; 21 cm.
"Amazing Change Campaign official book"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-298).
Introduction: finding slavery in my own backyard -- Shining light into the sexual darkness: Cambodia and Thailand -- Breaking the chains of bonded laborers: South Asia -- Rescuing the child soldiers: Uganda -- Undermining the sex syndicate: Europe -- Sheltering the lost children: Peru -- Building a new Underground Railroad: USA -- Conclusion: ending the slave trade in our time.
Human trafficking generates $31 billion annually and enslaves 27 million people around the globe, half of them children under the age of eighteen. Award-winning journalist David Batstone, whom Bono calls "a heroic character," profiles the new generation of abolitionists who are leading the struggle to end this appalling epidemic"--P. [4] of cover.
0061206717 9780061206719
2007296236
Human trafficking. Slavery. Child slaves. Forced labor. Trata de personas. Esclavitud