Beschreibung:
Slavery remains rampant worldwide. At least 27 million men, women, and children are enslaved today, ranging from prostitutes in London to indentured workers in Burma. This book tells some of their stories. -The statistics of modern day slavery are shocking,- writes Baroness Cox. -Behind each statistic is a human being ' a man, woman, or child; and behind each human being is a family and a community which have been devastated or destroyed. As real-life experiences often speak louder than words, we introduce some of the hundreds of former slaves we have met personally.- The picture is changing rapidly: there are grounds for optimism, but also fresh concern. This popularly written but carefully researched volume has been fully updated for this new edition. It includes chapters on the causes of slavery, on the history of the practice, on different forms of contemporary slavery and truly shocking case studies from Sudan, Burma, Uganda, Indonesia, and the UK. Dr Lydia Tanner contributes a new chapter on human trafficking, and Mal Egner provides a chapter on the conditions endured by the Dalits of India. Former slave and South Sudanese Olympic athlete, Guor Marial, writes the foreword.
Slavery remains rampant worldwide. At least 27 million men, women, and children are enslaved today, ranging from prostitutes in London to indentured workers in Burma. This book tells some of their stories. -The statistics of modern day slavery are shocking,- writes Baroness Cox. -Behind each statistic is a human being ' a man, woman, or child; and behind each human being is a family and a community which have been devastated or destroyed. As real-life experiences often speak louder than words, we introduce some of the hundreds of former slaves we have met personally.- The picture is changing rapidly: there are grounds for optimism, but also fresh concern. This popularly written but carefully researched volume has been fully updated for this new edition. It includes chapters on the causes of slavery, on the history of the practice, on different forms of contemporary slavery and truly shocking case studies from Sudan, Burma, Uganda, Indonesia, and the UK. Dr Lydia Tanner contributes a new chapter on human trafficking, and Mal Egner provides a chapter on the conditions endured by the Dalits of India. Former slave and South Sudanese Olympic athlete, Guor Marial, writes the foreword.
Contents
Acknowledgments 11
Foreword: My Experience of Slavery in Sudan (Guor Marial) 15
Introduction to the Second Edition (Caroline Cox) 19
1 William Wilberforce: A Mission Not Yet Complete 25
Part ONE
MODERN SLAVERY: THE VOICES OF TODAY’S SLAVES
2 Introduction: Shatter the Silence 33
3 Let the Slaves of Sudan and South Sudan Speak 35
Slavery in North-western Bahr el Ghazal 36
Slavery in Abyei 63
Slavery in the Nuba Mountains 66
The Process of Redemption 70
Conclusion 75
Sudan Update: The Glory and the Grey 77
4 Let the Abducted Children of Northern Uganda Speak 81
The Abduction, Brutalization, and Slaughter of Children 82
The Voices of the Children 83
Conclusion 99
An Update from Uganda 101
5 Let the Sex Slaves, Forced Porters, and Child Soldiers of Burma Speak 105
Sexual Slavery 108
Let the Victims of Forced Labour Speak 126
Child Soldiers 132
Update from Burma 134
Part TWO
SLAVERY PAST AND PRESENT
6 Slavery Through the Ages 139
Introduction: What Is Slavery? Definitions, Distinctions, and International Conventions 139
History of Slavery 140
7 Human Trafficking: The Return of the Global Trade in People (Dr Lydia Tanner) 149
Sarah’s Story 150
What is Human Trafficking? 152
The Global Trafficking Trade: Why It Has Grown 161
Trafficking in Europe and North America 162
What is Being Done? 164
The Outlook 178
8 When Untouchables Become Touchable: Dalit Trafficking and Slavery: India’s Dark Secret (Mal Egner) 181
9 Contemporary Slavery: Variations on the Theme 191
Chattel Slavery 191
Debt Bondage 192
Forced Labour 193
Devadasi and Jogini (Temple Prostitutes) 196
10 Breaking the Bonds 199
Bonds of Ignorance 199
Bonds of Silence 199
Bonds of Interest 200
Bonds of Ideology 200
Bonds of Complacency 200
Bonds of Complicity 201
Bonds of the Enslaved 201
What Then Must We Do? 201
Publicity and Parliaments 202
National and International Diplomacy 203
Linkage: An Idea Whose Time Has Come 203
“We Have A Dream” 204
Notes 205
Bibliography 214
