Human Trafficking and Human Rights

This volume introduces the subject of human trafficking and slavery in its many modern day forms. The book begins with an overview of modern slavery, asking why slavery continues to exist in the 21st century. The author discusses the history of slavery and introduces the issues of human rights and children and the types of work in which children are enslaved. She looks at the work of children in the cocoa industry and discusses the efficacy of a voluntary protocol to prevent children being enslaved in this work. She examines other forms of slavery and another protocol, the Kimberley Process. The author feels that these forms of slavery affect both adults and children and are an important study for readers to see how their own purchasing behavior affects those vulnerable to being enslaved. She goes on to look at sex slavery in a variety of forms, including sex tourism and various statutes aimed at curbing sex tourism. The author introduces the challenges which surround mail order brides, forced marriage, female genital cutting and breast ironing and how these problems manifest themselves in the Global North. She asks how people become slaves and looks at just how easy it is for peop