Sex Trafficking
Inside the Business of Modern Slavery SIDDHARTH KARA With a new preface by the author THE B EST- S EL L ING ACCO U N T O F T H E E CO N O M I CS AND COST OF T H E S E X T R A D E , N OW T H E BAS I S O F A MA J OR M OT ION P I CT U R E , TRA FF I C K E D.
Since the publication of Sex Trafficking in 2007, Siddharth Kara has continued to travel across countries and continents, documenting the local factors and economic forces that support sexual slavery worldwide. His riveting encounters with victims and traffickers informed his screenplay for Trafficked (2016), now a major motion picture. The film features familiar figures from Sex Trafficking and the shocking conditions of their exploitation. It also includes cases Kara has uncovered since his book debuted.
This paperback edition of Sex Trafficking includes a new preface by Kara in which he discusses his findings and updates the statistics relating to his business and economic analysis of contemporary slavery. Over fifteen years, Kara has recorded nearly 900 cases of sex trafficking in 41 countries and has advised on numerous legal, tactical, and policy efforts for abolishing modern-day slavery across the globe. Sex Trafficking continues to lead as a resource for those hoping to expose this hidden evil and eradicate its practice once and for all.
“A disturbing and illuminating study of one of the
“An eloquent, campaigning book that addresses an evil that belittles our humanity.” —Financial Times
“Sex trafficking is more of a problem than most people realize. Read this well-written book and find out.” —Kirk Douglas
“The best book ever written on human trafficking for sexual exploitation. Representing a new period of solid yet humane scholarship, this
underbellies of economic globalization: the global
breakthrough analysis represents
sex trafficking industry.”
a quantum leap in the study of this
—Irish Times
subject. Simply beyond anything SIDDHARTH KARA
is the first Fellow on Human
Trafficking with the Kennedy School of Govern-
I have seen anywhere.” —Kevin Bales, president of Free the Slaves
ment at Harvard University. He advises several governments as well as private and nongovernmental organizations on antislavery policy and law and is the author of Bonded Labor: Tackling the System of Slavery in South Asia (Columbia, 2012).
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