Not for sale : the return of the global slave trade-- and how we can fight it
(2007)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
306.3/BATSTONE,D

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 306.3/BATSTONE,D Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : HarperSanFrancisco, [2007]
©2007
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION

301 pages ; 21 cm

ISBN/ISSN
0061206717, 9780061206719, 0061206717 :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

"Amazing Change Campaign official book"--Cover

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

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