Books
To authors, screenwriters, playwrights, poets, bloggers. Your role in abolishing modern-day slavery is crucial. Unless human trafficking and slavery become part of everyday awareness – nothing will change. Ignorance, apathy and indifference will remain and the trade in humans and human body parts will continue to thrive. Unacceptable.
It's very simple:
To writers: we need your creative and literary support.
To readers: These books are extremely well written yet at times very hard to read. Please have the courage to do so.
To global educational publishers. You have a role to play in the global fight against slavery (Unbelievable that we have to make such a plea in the 21st century). Textbooks still say that 'Slavery has been abolished.' This could not be further from the truth.
Your reluctance to include material in mainstream textbooks could be fatal for thousands of children. While you discuss 'suitability', children are being exploited, enslaved, recruited, raped, beaten, abused. Please wake up. Education includes protection. Be accountable. Slavery in our supply chains is UNACCEPTABLE. What are doing about it? VERY LITTLE.
EYO by Abidemi Sanusi, 2009
Short-listed for the 2010 Commonwwealth Writer's Prize.
Eyo, a ten-year old girl from Nigeria, trafficked to London to work as a baby-sitter and domestic help. Promises of going to school are lies. Instead she is raped by the father, beaten, abused, starved and eventually sold to another person for commercial sexual exploitation. All happening in modern-day UK as you read this. Although EYO is descibed as 'fiction' it is not.
Suggested reading age – 16 and above. Stunning story. Please read it. You might well be the 'neighbour-next- door'.
For more info and to purchase this incredible book www.abidemisanusi.co.uk
Girls Like Us: Fighting for a World Where Girls Are Not for Sale: A Memoir
Rachel Lloyd, HaperCollins Publishers, 2011
The NO Project would like to see this book become part of requited reading in highschools – required reding for teachers of every subject and students 16+.
During her teens, Rachel Lloyd ended up a victim of commercial sexual exploitation. With time, through incredible resilience, and with the help of a local church community, she finally broke free of her pimp and her past and devoted herself to helping other young girls escape "the life."
In Girls Like Us, Lloyd reveals the dark world of commercial sex trafficking in cinematic detail and tells the story of her groundbreaking nonprofit organization: GEMS, Girls Educational and Mentoring Services. With great humanity, she shares the stories of the girls whose lives GEMS has helped—small victories that have healed her wounds and made her whole. Revelatory, authentic, and brave, Girls Like Us is an unforgettable memoir.
Source: www.amazon.com
People's Republic
Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery
by Sidharth Kara, Columbia Univserity Press, 2008.
At the end of 2006, there were 28.4 million slaves in the world, 1.2 million of whom were women and children abducted, deceived, or sold into forced prostitution. Kara quantifies the growth and profitability of sex trafficking, shares the stories of victims, and reveals the shocking conditions of their exploitation.(source: The Book Depository.co.uk)
Modern Slavery: The Secret World of 27 Million People
Short Description for Modern SlaveryThere are 27 million slaves alive – more than at any point in history. This number is also greater than the total population stolen from Africa during four centuries of the transatlantic slave trade. This book blends the research with first-hand accounts from the slaves to reveal the truth behind one of the worst humanitarian crises facing us. (source: The Book Depository.co.uk)
Kevin Bales is President of Free The Slaves, www.freetheslaves.net
This book is highly recommended if you are at all concerned about what happens to innocent humans beings against their will. Most of their stories go uncovered by the mainstream media. A must read to change some of the injustices in the world today.'
A Walk Across the Sun
by Corban Addison
In his international bestselling debut novel, Corban Addison leads readers on a chilling, eye-opening journey into Mumbai’s seedy underworld—and the nightmare of two orphaned girls swept into the international sex trade.
“Addison has written a novel that is beautiful in its story and also important in its message. A Walk Across the Sun deserves a wide audience.” John Grisham
www.amazon.com/A-Walk-Across-Sun-ebook/dp/B0073HNKLE
Radhika's Story: Surviving Human Trafficking
A seemingly innocent sip of Coca-Cola, drunk by a starving and desperately thirsty 14-year-old girl led to the first of Radhika Pariyar's human trafficking experiences. This title presents an account of a survivor of human trafficking in the 21st-century.(source: The Book Depository.co.uk)
Enslaved: The New British Slavery
Short Description for EnslavedSlavery in Britain did not end with Wilberforce. They may be largely invisible to us, but living in our midst are thousands of slaves. This book seeks out five escapees and persuades them to tell us their stories. (source: The Book Depository.co.uk)
The Road of Lost Innocence
Short Description for The Road of Lost Innocence
The true story of an orphaned Cambodian girl who spent her childhood in slavery and prostitution. (source: The Book Depository.co.uk)
Chinese Whispers: The True Story Behind Britain's Hidden Army of Labour
There are thousands of undocumented Chinese immigrants in Britain. They've travelled here because of desperate poverty, and must keep their heads down and work themselves to the bone. This book reveals a shadowy world where human beings are exploited in ways unimaginable in our civilized twenty-first century. (source: The Book Depository.co.uk)
