human trafficking

Discusses the causes and effects of various types of human trafficking, covering involuntary servitude, prostitution, and child labor, and the work being done to try to stop the worldwide practice.

Tells the story of Given Kachepa, a young man from the African nation of Zambia who was chosen at the age of eleven by a missionary group to become part of a choir touring the United States, only to find himself a victim of human trafficking, and who has made it his job to educate people about the problem since being rescued by the Immigration and Naturalization Service and placed in a foster home.

On the eve of publisher Mikael Blomkvist's story about sex trafficking between Eastern Europe and Sweden, two investigating reporters are murdered. And even more shocking for Mikael Blomkvist: the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to Lisbeth Salander--the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker who came to his aid years before.

A novel in vignettes, in which Lakshmi, a thirteen-year-old girl from Nepal, is sold into prostitution in India.

Including real-life examples and in-depth case studies from around the world, this book delves into the worldwide problem of people trafficking, describing the issue and the practices various organizations use to catch traffickers.

When nomadic weaver Anahita is kidnapped on the eve of her wedding, her fianc? and her tribe travel from Iran to Bukhara to rescue her.

Sophie Hayes, a young, educated English woman, was spending an idyllic weekend in Italy with her seemingly charming new boyfriend. But the day she was scheduled to return to England he took her passport and made it clear she wasn't going anywhere and informed her she would be going into prostitution to help him pay off hundreds of thousands of dollars in debts he owed. Over the next six months Sophie lived in hell as she struggled to survive, constantly at the mercy of her boyfriend's violent moods and her fear of being killed by one of her customers. When a life-threatening illness landed her in the hospital, Sophie had a chance to phone her mother and escape, provided she could fool her boyfriend into letting her go.

When Nebraska police officer and divorced mother of three Kathryn Bolkovac saw a recruiting announcement for private military contractor DynCorp International she signed on. She was shipped out to Bosnia where DynCorp had been contracted to support the UN peacekeeping mission. She began to unravel the ugly truth about officers involved in human trafficking and forced prostitution and their connections to private mercenary contractors, the UN, and the U.S. State Department. After bringing this evidence to light, Bolkovac was demoted, threatened with bodily harm, fired, and ultimately forced to flee the country under cover of darkness--bringing the incriminating documents with her. Thanks to the evidence she collected, she won a lawsuit against DynCorp.

This book was written after the author spent four years visiting more than a dozen countries where slavery flourishes. The stories, told in narrative style, are those of individuals who live in slavery, those who have escaped, those who own or traffic in slaves, and the mixed political motives of those who seek to combat the crime.