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1 What Makes a Slave? Slavery Defined How Many Slaves? The Nature of Contemporary Slavery How Slavery Changed Into its Modern Form Old and New Slavery Compared The Question of Race References 2 The Forms of Contemporary Slavery Examples of Contemporary Slavery Slavery in the City of Lights Controversies Controversy 2-Is it right to buy slaves? Controversy 3-Is prostitution slavery? Solutions Groups and Strategies Working Against Slavery An Example at the National Level: Rugmark An Example at the Local Level: The Break the Chains Campaign-Washington, DC What Can We Do? References 3 What do we Know about Human Trafficking in the United States? Stopping Slavery in America What Can be Done? Increasing Law Enforcement Supporting the Victims and Survivors of Trafficking and Slavery Public Awareness References Notes 4 5 Swami Agnivesh (b. 1939) Jean-Robert Cadet (b. 1955) Thomas Clarkson (1760-1846) Lou DeBaca (b. 1967) Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) Given Kachepa (b. 1986) Cheikh Saad Bouh Kamara (b. 1944) Craig Kielburger (b. 1982) Dona Pureza Lopez Loyola (b. 1943) Iqbal Masih (1982-1995) Keshav Nankar (b. 1961) Vivek (b. 1957) and Vidyullata (b. 1957) Pandit Father Edwin Paraison (b. 1962) Shakil Patan (1956-1998) Father Ricardo Rizende (b. 1952) Salma Mint Saloum (b. 1956) Amar Saran (b. 1954) Suman (b. 1961) Moctar Teyeb (b. 1959) Harriet Tubman (1820-1913) John Woolman (1720-1772) 6 Facts and Figures The Spread of Slavery Key International Laws and Conventions on Slavery Slavery Convention of the League of Nations (1926) The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948): Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery (1956) Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) (Excerpts) ILO Convention Concerning the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labor (1999) (Excerpts) United States Trafficking Victims Protection Act (2000) United Nations Convention on Transnational Organized Crime(2000) Reports, Evidence, and Testimony about the Different Types of Slavery Contract Slavery Chattel Slavery War Slavery Slavery Linked to Religious Practice Forced Labor Enslavement for Commercial Sexual Exploitation Domestic Slavery Child Labor and Slavery 7 Global Antislavery Groups Intergovernmental Organizations Governmental Organizations Nongovernmental Organizations By Region Asia Europe North America South America South Asia and Southeast Asia 8 Print Resources Articles Teaching Packs Briefings and Reports Newsletters and Periodicals Selected Nonprint Resources CD-ROMs Exhibitions Pamphlets, Photographs and Digital Images, Posters, Press Kits, and Information Packs Videotapes Web sites Glossary
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Slavery -- History -- 20th century.
Slavery -- History.