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Slavery Today (About.com) Overview of the many forms of modern day slavery. Focuses primarily on the efforts of the American Anti-Slavery Group. http://humanrights.about.com/culture/issuescauses/humanright s/library/weekly/aa090699.htm S.T.O.P. - Slavery That Oppresses People Founded in 1998 by a fifth-grade class in Denver that wanted to take action on behalf of children now held as chattel slaves in the Sudan. The students were in the middle of a history unit on American slavery when they learned that black people were still slaves in the Sudan -- especially boys and girls their own age. That brutal fact was shocking, but the students refused to sit idly by. http://www.anti-slavery.org/stop/ Overturning the Culture of Violence Summarizes this book about world and US history, slavery, genocide and reparations to African people. Find ordering info rmation. http://burningspearuhuru.com/ Camel Races in the Middle East Information about children being kidnapped in Asia and forcefully used as camel jockeys in the oil-rich Gulf states. http://www.CamelRaces.com Bonded Labor/Debt Bondage Resources Directory of articles and resources related to debt bondage and bonded labor of children worldwide. http://www.vachss.com/help_text/bonded_labor.html Free the Slaves - Abolish Modern Slavery The Center of the Modern American Abolishionist Movement inspired by Kevin Bales' book, Disposable People, works to abolish slavery worldwide. http://www.freetheslaves.net/ William Wilberforce House Anti-Slavery Society Organization working for the suppression of child labor and slavery. Consumer guides, newsroom, kids' section, and profiles of current issues. http://www.childlabor.net/ |
