Human Rights and Contemporary Slavery

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Human Rights and Contemporary Slavery (Full File: 825kb)

• Introduction by Dr. Kevin Bales (Roehampton University) (104kb)
  
  Bonded Labor in India (154kb)
  
  The Children of War (123kb)
  
  Contemporary Slavery and International Law (120kb)
  
  Contract Enslavement of Female Migrant Domestic Workers in Saudi Arabia
  and the United Arab Emirates (162kb)
  
  The Dark Side of Labor in China (139kb)
  
  The Economic Foundations of Contemporary Slavery (139kb)
  
  Forced Child Labor and Cocoa Production in West Africa (163kb)
  
  Forced Child Labor in El Salvador: Contemporary Economic Servitude (157kb)
  
  Forced Labor in the United States: A Contemporary Problem in Need of a Contemporary Solution (158kb)
  
  A Growing Concern: Modern Slavery and Agricultural Production in Brazil and South Asia (135kb)
  
  Poverty’s Captives (142kb)
  
  Under the Iron Thumb: Forced Labor in Myanmar(161kb)

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  • Human Rights in Latin America (2006)
  • Rights-Based Approaches to Development (2006)
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