Human trafficking / Kathryn Cullen-DuPont ; foreword by Jessica Neuwirth and Taina Bien-Aimé.
"Despite the United Nations having officially abolished slavery and the slave trade more than 60 years ago, millions of human beings continue to be enslaved. Human trafficking - the official term for the modern-day slave trade - consists of buying and selling people with the intent of exploitin...
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New York, NY :
Facts On File,
[2009]
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Table of Contents:
- At issue. Human trafficking ; Historical overview ; Defining the victims of human trafficking ; The international exploitation of trafficked persons ; Causes of human trafficking ; International efforts to end human trafficking
- Focus on United States. The United States's role in trafficking ; Origins of persons trafficked to the United States ; Exploitation of trafficked persons in the United States ; Considerations particular to trafficking in the United States ; U.S. efforts to end human trafficking
- Global perspectives. Netherlands ; Nigeria ; India ; Belize
- Primary sources. United States documents. Legislation and executive orders ; Media, briefs, and press releases ; Forced labor and domestic servitude ; Sex trafficking ; Child sexual exploitation ; U.S. efforts to end human trafficking
- International documents. International treaties and declarations ; International accounts of human trafficking ; Netherlands ; Nigeria ; India ; Belize
- Research tools. How to research human trafficking. Researching chattel slavery ; Modern-day slavery
- Facts and figures. Human trafficking in the world ; Fighting human trafficking ; Global maps and routes ; Inequality and human trafficking
- Key players, A to Z
- Organizations and agencies
- Annotated bibliography. Belize ; Chattel slavery ; Child marriage, forced marriage, and Council-ordered punishment rapes/marriages ; Child soldiers ; Forced labor ; India ; Involuntary domestic servitude ; Netherlands ; Nigeria ; Poverty ; Scope and magnitude of international human trafficking ; Sex tourism ; Sex trafficking ; Trafficking for involuntary organ harvests ; Trafficking for infants ; United States.