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Inspiration – Books, Videos and Academic Research

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Books
  • Blood and Earth – Kevin Bales – 2016 – A leading expert on modern-day slavery, Kevin Bales has travelled to some of the world’s most dangerous places documenting and battling human trafficking. In the course of his reporting, Bales began to notice a pattern emerging: Where slavery existed, so did massive, unchecked environmental destruction. But why? Bales set off to find the answer in a fascinating and moving journey that took him into the lives of modern-day slaves and along a supply chain that leads directly to the cellphones in our pockets. What he discovered is that even as it destroys individuals, families, and communities, new forms of slavery that proliferate in the world’s lawless zones also pose a grave threat to the environment. Simply put, modern-day slavery is destroying the planet.
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  • Stop the Traffik – People Shouldn’t be Bought and Sold – Steve Chalke with a chapter by Cherie Blair –
    Human trafficking is the fastest growing global crime and is now the second largest after the illegal arms trade. It involves the movement of people, against their will, through violence, deception or coercion for the purpose of sex, forced labour or even body parts. Men, women and children are all victims of trafficking; although approximately 80% are women and girls and up to 50% are children. The book contains real-life stories, photographs, and practical action points, divided into 6 sections.
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  • Slave to Fashion – Safia Minney – Slave to Fashion is made up of interviews and microdocumentaries with the men, women and children caught in slavery, making the clothes sold on our high streets, in Europe and the developing world.
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  • Modern Slavery: A Global Perspective – Siddharth Kara – In Modern Slavery, Kara draws on his many years of expertise to demonstrate the scope of slavery and offer a concrete path to its abolition. From labor trafficking in the U.S. agricultural sector to sex trafficking in Nigeria to forced labor in the Thai seafood industry, Kara depicts the myriad faces and forms of slavery, providing a comprehensive grounding in the realities of modern-day servitude. Drawing on sixteen years of field research in more than sixty countries around the globe-including revelatory interviews with both the enslaved and their oppressors-Kara sets out the key manifestations of modern slavery and how it is embedded in global supply chains. Enslavement offers immense profits at minimal risk through the exploitation of vulnerable subclasses whose brutalization is tacitly accepted by the current global economic order.
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  • Modern Slavery: The Margins of Freedom – Julia O’Connel –
    Providing a unique critical perspective to debates on slavery, this book brings the literature on transatlantic slavery into dialogue with research on informal sector labour, child labour, migration, debt, prisoners, and sex work in the contemporary world in order to challenge popular and policy discourse on modern slavery.

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  • The Real Scandal of Sex Trafficking – a resource for worship, education and action. Two hundred years since the abolition of the slave trade a new trade has taken its place: the trafficking of women and children for sexual exploitation. It is estimated that 4000 women are trafficked into the UK annually and are working in our cities and towns. It is almost certain they will have been entrapped, kidnapped, abused, tortured, serially raped and forced into sexual slavery.
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News Articles
  • The Lack of Victim Support – Independent Article: “Home Office announces repayment for slavery victims after it unlawfully cut their support”
  • Child Criminal exploitation and County Lines – How are children exploited by gangs ?
  • County Lines and Child Criminal Exploitation– In May 2019 the first criminal prosecution of gangs using county lines took place, with three men being jailed for three years over the exploitation of children in drug trafficking.  
  • The Rise of Slavery– Reports of suspected slavery rise by 36% in Britain between 2017-2018. 
  •  Modern Slavery in Focus – The Guardian 
  •  The Price of Fast Fashion –  BBC

Academic Research
  • The Modern Slavery Act –  This is the legislation that guides all current police and legal action relating to modern slavery in the UK.
  • Database of multi-agency Partnerships –  Across the UK Multi Agency Partnerships between police, charities, NGO’s and social services are used to tackle modern slavery and support survivors. These agency relationships are complex and can vary from region to region. This report on Multi Agency Partnerships from the Rights Lab at the University of Nottingham looks at these complexities.
  • The Anti Slavery Partnership Toolkit created by the University of Nottingham’s Rights Lab has a number of resources and reports on giving support to survivors of modern slavery, along with guidelines on how this support can best be implemented by Charities and NGO’s.
  • The Anti-Slavery Partnership Toolkit also has a range of resources on how anti-slavery partnerships can utilise community and faith groups, along with the legal specifics of supporting survivors of modern slavery.
  • The Wilberforce Institute at the University of Hull aims to advance fundamental knowledge of slavery and emancipation, informing policy, business practice and public debate at local, national and international levels. They have a variety of research that is freely available along with specific support for Businesses in how they can tackle Modern Slavery and maintain slave free supply chains.
  • If you are a business owner looking to ensure your business remains slave and exploitation free, please look at The Slave Free Alliance and The Wilberforce Institute, for advice and guidance on practical steps you can take.
Videos
This video gives an excellent introduction to what modern slavery looks like, and how people are often tricked into being exploited. Along with signs to look for that can suggest someone is a victim of modern slavery.
Hear Mitos story of being trapped as a domestic slave for three years.

How to combat Modern Slavery:

This 20 minute speech gives both an introduction to the state of Modern Slavery around the world, along with what can be done to combat it.

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