Events

GLC Webinar - Labor Supply Chains in the Arab Gulf: Building Back Free-er

Friday, June 26, 2020


Modern Anti-Slavery and Transparent Supply Chains: Building Back Free-er After Crises

Friday, May 1, 2020


Prosecuting Slavery in a Time of Freedom

Wednesday, April 10, 2019


Fighting Modern Slavery: What Works?

Friday and Saturday, November 2-3, 2018

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Confronting Coercion: Building Worker Power in the 21st Century

Thursday, September 21, 2017


Human Trafficking Awareness Day Tactic Debate on Open Democracy 

On 11 January [2017], Beyond Slavery and Trafficking launched an online policy debate exploring the practical effects of human trafficking awareness campaigns. This debate was co-sponsored by Brown and Yale, and used the occasion of National Human Trafficking Awareness Day in the United States as a platform for thinking about the strengths and weaknesses of popular strategies for raising awareness of human trafficking. 


The Trouble with Trafficing

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Abolition, Past and Present

November 8-10, 2012

In order to put past and present in lasting dialogue, this conference combines some of the world’s most distinguished historians of slavery and abolition with many of the most important activist-leaders in the current movement to counteract and abolish modern forms of slavery. The gathering will be one effort toward forging a field of study about the origins and nature of current human trafficking and bonded labor systems in the world. By use of rich historical analogies, comparative perspectives, international contexts, and real world examples of intervention, we will explore and use the past in order to see deeper into the challenges faced by governments, non-governmental organizations, scholars, writers, and concerned citizens. We further hope to place the complex problem of contemporary slavery within the history of modern ideas and regimes of human rights. This is a conference where the worlds of scholarship and international activism meet, in similar and different ways to eighteenth and nineteenth century abolitionists, to curtail and ultimately rid the world of this ancient - and very current - problem of human exploitation.


Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking in Historical Perspective

Monday, Decemeber 5, 2011


Siddharth Kara, Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winner for Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery (2010)

Judith A. Carney, Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles, Siddharth Kara, Fellow on Human Trafficking at Harvard University, and Richard Nicholas Rosomoff, an independent writer, have been selected as the co-winners of the 2010 Frederick Douglass Book Prize, awarded for the best book written in English on slavery or abolition. Carney and Rosomoff won for their book In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World (University of California Press), and Kara won for his book, Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery (Columbia University Press).


From Chattel Bondage to State Servitude: Slavery in the 20th Century (2004)

October 22 & 23, 2004