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• - Campaign to help raise awareness about modern slavery and to highlight organizations working against it.
  
• - Information and resources about slavery and forced labor systems in the modern world.
  
• - Papers from a conference at the Africa Centre, London, marking UN International Day for the Abolition of Slavery.
  
• - Contrary to conventional wisdom, slavery has not disappeared from the world. Social scientists are trying to explain its persistence Article by Kevin Bales.
  
• - Overview of the many forms of modern day slavery. Focuses primarily on the efforts of the American Anti-Slavery Group.
  
• - Information about modern slavery in the US and around the world.
  
• - News of slavery and anti-slavery campaigns, plus entry to other sections of site.
  
• - The Center of the Modern American Abolishionist Movement inspired by Kevin Bales' book, Disposable People, works to abolish slavery worldwide.
  
• - Book review of Kevin Bales' study of modern slavery, with case studies from Thailand, Mauritania, Pakistan, Brazil, and India.
  
• - Factsheet from the United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights.
  
• - Information and education exchange on the plight of modern slavery, child slavery and prostitition around the world, particularly in Sudan, Mauritania, Sudan, China, India and Thailand.
  
• - Monitors, documents, and publicizes the plight of slaves around the globe. Focuses on the worst and most-ignored cases of human bondage: black chattel slavery in North Africa. There may be more slaves today than ever before in history.