Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery
Siddharth Kara
Paper, 320 pages, 26 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-13961-8
$16.95
/ £11.95
November, 2008
Cloth, 320 pages, 26 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-13960-1
$24.95
/ £16.95
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Sex Trafficking: An Overview
2. India and Nepal
3. Italy and Western Europe
4. Moldova and the Former Soviet Union
5. Albania and the Balkans
6. Thailand and the Mekong Subregion
7. The United States
8. A Framework for Abolition: Risk and Demand
Appendix A: Selected Tables and Notes
Appendix B: Contemporary Slavery Economics
Appendix C: Selected Human Development Statistics
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Related Subjects
About the Author
Siddharth Kara is the first Fellow on Human Trafficking with the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is a widely recognized expert on contemporary slavery and advises several organizations and governments worldwide. Since 2004, he has served on the board of directors of the anti-slavery organization, Free the Slaves. In 2005, he testified as an expert on human trafficking before the U.S. Congressional Human Rights Committee. He serves on the committee founded by Kirk Douglas that is lobbying Congress to provide an official apology for pre-bellum slavery. In 2009, he was selected as a fellow for the acclaimed TEDIndia conference.
Kara holds a law degree from England, an M.B.A. from Columbia University, and a B.A. from Duke University. Previously, he worked as an investment banker at Merrill, Lynch and ran his own finance and M&A consulting firm.
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