(Human Trafficking Conference, Erie PA, April 19, 2005) There are more than 27 million slaves in the world today, and more in the making, and rapidly. Kevin Bales, PhD, the world?s leading expert on contemporary slavery, author of Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy, and president of Free The Slaves. In a series of public lectures and class talks, Bales distinguishes the ?old? slavery versus the new where there is no investment necessary in the easily acquired property. A slave can be bought for as cheap as $50, discarded when no longer useful (or dead), and another bought. Close to a million people are trafficked across international borders every year, 70 percent are female and 50 percent are children, Bales reveals. Event sponsored Gannon University, Edinboro University, Mercyhurst College, and the Sisters of St. Joseph. (58 min.)

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Abolition of Slavery
Audience: Learning: High School and Pre-College
Creator: Monterey Institute for Technology and Education
Date: 2.147483649e+09 BCE
Language: English (SWF FILES)

Topic 01: Lincoln and Civil Liberties
Topic 02: Emancipation Proclamation
Topic 03: Thirteenth Amendment

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Why the slavery continues

We sometimes assume that because slavery was abolished in the
19th century, it doesn't go on today. However, Professor Kevin Bales has
made a study of modern slavery and in his shocking book "Disposable
People", he estimates that there are around 27 million workers enslaved
today - whether they are in debt bondage in a Pakistani brick factory,
imprisoned in a brothel in Thailand, or sweating in a charcoal camp in
Brazil. Benin in Western Africa is the scene of child slavery and
trafficking but why does it continue? and how do the conditions of
slavery today compare with those in the past?