The Fight to End Global Slavery
Skinner, Benjamin E.
World Policy Journal, Summer 2009, v26, #2, pp33–41
"Human trafficking may be just the latest topic du jour among U.S. foreign policy elites and UN humanitarian types, but mention the underlying crime—slavery— to foreign officials and the reaction is often confused and explosive. “For God’s sake, don’t go talking about brutal slavery here,” says Jay Kumar, the Social Secretary of Araria, one of the poorest districts in Bihar, the poorest state in India. Waving his finger, speaking from his one-room office building, Kumar, whose position required him to respond to allegations of child labor, is instead categorically denying that the two dozen recently freed child slaves that I had met in his district were ever in bondage."
E. Benjamin Skinner is a fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School.
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http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/wopj.2009.26.2.33
H8/04-09 posted July 17, 2009
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