‘If you look at slavery across all human history, and you sort of strip away the packaging, whether it’s racialized or religious-based, and you look at the actual core of the slavery, it’s one person completely controlling another one’ Kevin Bales

I’ve been reading articles on human rights recently and an e-mail I received a little while ago led me to read a little on Professor Kevin Bales’ work on combating modern slavery. I am providing a link with a short yet moving talk by him below:  http://www.ted.com/talks/kevin_bales_how_to_combat_modern_slavery

That then led to my currently reading Modern Slavery by Kevin Bales, president of Free the Slaves, Zoe Trodd and Alex Kent Williamson, history and pathology specialists respectively at Harvard University. The book includes research and first-hand stories from enslaved people themselves to provide an account of one of the most horrific humanitarian crises facing us today. The authors offer hope with a global blueprint that proposes to end slavery in our lifetime.

I hope to post short extracts or quotes from the book once I have finished it.