human trafficking

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.

Profiles men and women around the world who are fighting human trafficking around the world and offers an overview of the global slave trade, its history, and practice.

Presents an in-depth study of human trafficking around the world, offering information on how economics, civil unrest, inequalities, and gender disparities contribute to human trafficking; critiques of local anti-trafficking measures; and policy recommendations.

Journalist Mikael Blomkvist is about to expose a sex trafficking operation between Eastern Europe and Sweden implicating several high-ranking officials when two investigative reporters are murdered. The murder suspect is none other than Lisbeth Salander, the troubled computer hacker who aided him in the past. While Blomkvist tries to clear her name, Salander confronts her past in order to save herself from the person trying to frame her for murder.

Tenth-graders Ethan and Ti-Anna go to Hong Kong seeking her father, an exiled Chinese democracy activist who has disappeared, and follow his trail to Vietnam and back, also uncovering illegal activity along the way. Includes author's note and the history behind the novel which is inspired by a true story.