Slavery in the News

• Across Asia corruption and slavery form bitter web Kevin Bales, Free the Slaves President, links corruption to the growth of slavery in India, Pakistan, and other parts of South Asia.
• NY couple charged with Slavery
  New York Times: Indian women promised work, instead held in modern slavery by wealthy New York couple.
• Evangelicals United Against Slavery
  American Evangelical Christians put political differences aside to unite against slavery in all its forms.
• Kevin Bales' Article in Financial Times
  Kevin Bales, FTS' President, writes that we should celebrate past successes while investing for global eradication in the near future.
• BeliefNet Uses FTS Content
  Slideshow uses high-impact images from around the world to emphasize the global impact of this human rights violations.
• Christianity Today: Slavery
  Christianity Today spotlights anti-slavery advocate Given Kachepa and interviews FTS' president Kevin Bales.
• Vision: Abolishing Slavery
  Kevin Bales explains that we're in the fourth major antislavery campaign in human history.
• Brazil: Antislavery efforts imperiled
  A decision by Brazil's Congress threatens to jeopardize an antislavery program that led to the release of more than 15,000 slaves and made Brazil a world leader on the issue.
• Nepal: Children missing from government homes
  Scores of children have disappeared from orphanages and are reportedly trafficked for household employment, sexual abuse, circus labour, or organ transplants.
• Christian Association Highlights Slavery
  The 16,000-member Christian Medical Assoc. called on the President, federal agencies and healthcare providers to organize medical specialty groups for national educational campaign to serve victims of modern-day slavery.
• Journalist: Jail me, I ate slave-made chocolate!
  Dutch journalist says by eating chocolate he benefits from child slavery and challenges Amsterdam court to find him in violation of any standing law - highlighting policy gaps in the industry.
• Survivor Speaks Out in Florida
  Given Kachepa, a friend of FTS and a survivor of slavery, speaks out in support of awareness-raising campaign to reduce trafficking in Florida.
• The Slaves in Our Midst
  A recent Washington Post Op-Ed identifies the State Department as a roadblock to justice for slaves held by international diplomats.
• Trafficking case ends for 48 Thai welders
  California: $1.4m settlement in case involving 48 Thai welders tricked into debt bondage, a modern form of slavery.
• Labor Trafficking in Albania
  While media coverage of trafficking for the international sex trade is high, one abuse that often goes unreported is the kidnapping of children, by criminal gangs who then force their victims to work, says Al Jazeer
• Reuters: Poverty, tradition shackle Mauritania's slaves
  Born a slave, like his entire family, Matalla Mbreik toiled from dawn to dusk selling water and tending his master's flocks on the lonely fringes of the Saharan desert, until he could take no more.
• Multinational calls for "zero tolerance" of trafficking
  Manpower Inc. (NYSE: MAN) calls on 1,000 of the world's largest companies to help end human trafficking by joining campaign and adhering to ethical principles.
• New human rights website
  HuriSearch provides direct full text search of over 3000 human rights websites. Currently over 2Õ600Õ000 pages are indexed.
• California has yet to test slavery statute
  A law passed nearly a year ago to help curb human trafficking in the state still has never been used to prosecute those suspected of enslaving immigrants, proponents of the bill said.
• British Evangelicals Launch Prayer Guide on Slavery
  2007 will mark the 200th anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act, and the Evangelical Alliance is promoting an Advent Prayer Guide in 2006 in acknowledgement of the role that the church played in the maintenance as well as the abolition of the slave trade.
• New ILO report highlights violence against children
  Millions of children face systemic violence in their workplaces, ranging from physical or verbal abuse to sexual harassment, rape and even murder, according to a landmark new report from the United NationsÕ International Labour Organization (ILO).
• Tony Blair speaks out on Slavery in Past, Present
  Britain's Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has written a statement of regret at Britain's role in the slave trade and acknowledges the unspeakable cruelty that persists in the form of modern day slavery.
• Oregon woman sues for slavery
  An impoverished Ethiopian woman who came to Oregon a decade ago seeking a better life working for a Salem-area doctor's family says that she was bullied and deceived into working 90 hours a week without pay.
• Indian boy wins prize for leadership in anti-slavery campaign
  A 14-year-old Indian boy has been awarded the International Children's Peace Prize for leading a campaign against child labour and child slavery.
• UAE law to punish human trafficking
  According to Al Jazeera, the United Arab Emirates has enacted a law punishing human trafficking with up to life imprisonment. Last year the UAE banned the use of children as camel jockey's.
• Oral history project uses captive voices to fight modern slavery
  Kevin Bales and Zoe Trodd's edited volume collects narratives from contemporary slaves. The awareness-raising book, "To Plead Our Own Cause", includes narratives from child soldiers, sex slaves, domestic slaves, factory slaves, and agricultural slaves from Africa to Washington, D.C.
• Brazilian slaves make materials used in popular products
  Kevin Bales speaks with Bloomberg News as they investigate slavery in Brazil. Slave-tainted steel makes its way into products made by Chevy, Ford, Nissan, Toyota, Whirlpool and Kohler.
• Defecting From Despair
  "Help. I'm a North Korean enslaved by a married man in China." A perilous odyssey aided by the Internet gives N. Korean refugees a chance to settle in the U.S.
• Arab Sheikhs Enslaved Child Jockeys, Suit Says
  More than 30,000 boys may have been forced to race camels by United Arab Emirates rulers, parents charge.
• Top discovery: 27 million slaves
  Free the Slaves President Kevin Bales' research determining there are 27 million victims of slavery worldwide is listed as one of the top 100 world-changing discoveries to come from UK universities in the past 50 years.
• BBC posts site on modern slavery
  The Slavery in the 21st Century site is full of content regarding modern day slavery.
• Human trafficking turning into organized crime in India
  Human trafficking in India has become an organized crime generating a business worth $8 million, with an alarming number of women and children being trafficked, according to a group working with migrant communities in the country.
• How, Where Human Trafficking Begins
  The U.S. State Department's 2006 report on human trafficking estimates between 600,000 and 800,000 people are trafficked across borders each year—and that doesn't include people sold within their own countries. Free the Slaves President Kevin Bales is interviewed in this NPR Marketplace report.
• Brothers Charged for Possible Human Trafficking
  Federal authorities charged two brothers in federal court Monday who were involved in a possible human trafficking ring, according to Loudoun County, Virginia, Sheriff's spokesman Kraig Troxell.
• INDIA: Human Trafficking In the Northeast Fueling HIV/AIDS
  Images of guns, drugs and rebels have long defined India's troubled northeast. Now, a study across eight states in this resource-rich, infrastructure-poor, conflict-scarred region seeks to highlight a new worry: the rising tide of human trafficking—mostly women and girls—and its potential for hastening the spread of HIV/AIDS.
• Iraq War Contractors Ordered to End Abuses
  The top U.S. commander in Iraq has ordered sweeping changes for privatized military support operations after confirming violations of human-trafficking laws and other abuses by contractors involving possibly thousands of foreign workers on American bases.
• Prostitutes' Clients Asked to Help in Police Crackdown on Traffickers
  An unprecedented police operation has been launched across the UK to stop people traffickers bringing women to Britain for sex? including an appeal asking prostitutes' clients for help.
• Kevin Bales at the Forum
  Kevin Bales, president of Free the Slaves, addressing "Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy," Wednesday (Feb. 15). Bales spoke as part of the Penn State Faculty Staff Club's Forum series at the University Park campus.
• High "Human Trafficking" Rate in Florida
  Young women and children raped, tortured and sold for sex? its modern day slavery and it's happening in Jacksonville.
• A Cherokee alphabet, a Muslim slave, and a new national culture This Chicago Reporter article outlines various instances of old slavery and discrimination in the American history and emphasises the current situation by quoting Kevin Bales. Speaking of those enslaved Bales says that Òour ignorance of their hidden world is vast.Ó

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