Freedom Summit Handbook



Welcome Message from the Conference Chair

On behalf of the entire planning team, I want to welcome you to Freedom Summit 2009. We are so thankful you are able to join us for this important glimpse into the world of human trafficking and to explore the point of intersection between our faith in Jesus Christ and the reality of this injustice. It is our hope and prayer that through our time together, you will be challenged to:

See the injustice...     

That we would each learn about and get a glimpse of the global slave trade and actually see the faces of those impacted by such evil

Engage your heart...   

That we would collectively worship and proclaim Jesus as the source of all freedom and ask Him to help us engage our heartfelt pain for those for whom freedom is not real

Live for freedom...    

That each of us would recognize real, tangible ways in which we can exercise our freedom for the freedom of others & consider how God might use our unique gifts to “love our neighbor as ourselves”

In your hands you hold a resource that will serve both as a roadmap for the time we will spend together and as a reference to guide you in your journey into the world of human trafficking. There are many groups doing amazing work around the world with which you can get connected, and many resources available through which you can become more informed about human trafficking. We hope that you will find this handbook to be a helpful tool as we engage this issue and seek to live for freedom.

It has been said, “You haven’t really prayed for someone until you’ve asked God how you might be the answer to that person’s prayer." Let’s all be open to how God may want to work through our lives to answer another’s prayer somewhere in the world.

For The Freedom of All,  

Steve Stenstrom

Table of Contents

Welcome Message from the Conference Chair 1

Table of Contents 3

Conference Schedule 4

Map of Venue 7

Plenary Sessions 9

Speaker Bios 9

Featured Music Artists 10

Breakout Sessions 12

Schedule Overview 12

Summaries and Speaker Bios 14

Global Village 25

Organizations 25

Interactive Exhibits 37

Photography Exhibits 39

Stores 40

Resources 41

Index of Organizations 41

Book List: Categorized by Subject 55

Film List 59

Conference Schedule

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Friday - May 15

|5:00pm - 7:00pm |Check-In open |

| |Global Village open |

|7:00pm - 9:00pm |Plenary Session 1: See the injustice |

| |David Batstone |

| |Phil Wickham |

| |Francis Chan |

|9:15pm - 11:15pm |Film Screenings |

| |Breakout Room 2: Holly * |

| |Breakout Room 3: The Not For Sale Documentary ** |

Saturday - May 16

|8:00am - 9:00am |Check-In open |

| |Global Village open |

|9:00am - 10:45am |Plenary Session 2: Engage your heart |

| |Bethany Hoang |

| |Francis Chan |

| |Phil Wickham |

|10:45am - 11:00am |Break |

|11:00am - 11:45am |Breakout Session 1 |

| |Global Village open |

|11:45am - Noon |Break |

| |Global Village open |

|Noon - 1:00pm |Lunch (provided) |

| |Global Village open |

|1:00pm - 1:45pm |Breakout Session 2 |

| |Global Village open |

|1:45pm - 2:00pm |Break |

|2:00pm - 3:45pm |Plenary Session 3: Live for freedom |

| |Nathan George |

| |Francis Chan |

| |Phil Wickham |

|3:45pm - 5:00pm |Global Village open |

|5:00pm |Conference ends |

Film Screenings

* Holly

Set in Cambodia, a tale that depicts child prostitution through the non-sexual, complex relationship between Holly, a beautiful 12-year-old Vietnamese girl, and Patrick, an obsessive 40-year-old American stolen artifacts dealer.



** NOT For Sale: The Documentary

This film is based on the book of the same name and covers the modern-day abolitionist movement. The film both exposes the terrors of human trafficking and inspires hope through the stories and work of contemporary activists.

Map of Venue

Plenary Sessions

1 Speaker Bios

1 Francis Chan 

Francis Chan is the Pastor of Cornerstone Church, as well as the Founder and Chancellor of Eternity Bible College in Simi Valley, California. He also serves on the Board of Directors for World Impact and Children's Hunger Fund. Last year, Francis wrote Crazy Love, a book about encountering God's relentless love. As a speaker at the Passion Conferences, Hume Lake Christian Camps, and churches across the country, Francis has spoken about the need for a Christian response of love and sacrifice to fight global human trafficking. Francis will address the Biblical call to social justice, compassion, and love for victims of oppression and suffering.

Website:

Blog:

2 David Batstone

David Batstone is a Professor of Ethics at the University of San Francisco and is one of the founders of the Not for Sale Campaign. After learning about victims of human trafficking in his local area, David traveled around the world researching the global slave trade and writing Not for Sale: The Return of the Global Slave Trade – and How We Can Fight It. As President of the Not for Sale Campaign, David speaks at schools, churches, and universities across the country in order to promote the modern-day abolitionist movement through awareness, education, and sound economic practices. David will discuss the causes, prevalence and conditions of human trafficking and exploitation, as well as current grassroots efforts to end modern-day slavery.

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3 Bethany Hoang

Bethany Hoang serves as Director of the IJM Institute for International Justice Mission. Bethany received a B.A. in Religion and History from Miami University of Ohio, and she received a Master of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary where she graduated with the honor of receiving the distinguished Fellowship in Theology. Bethany joined IJM in 2004. She travels globally, speaking and teaching to thousands on behalf of IJM at churches, conferences and universities. As Director of the IJM Institute, she is responsible for equipping leaders of the global church and academic communities with tools and resources for bringing others into a deeper level of understanding, passion, and commitment to seeking justice on behalf of those who suffer abuse and oppression in our world. Bethany was recently featured in the book The Relevant Nation: 50 Activist, Artists And Innovators Who Are Changing Their World Through Faith. She was also featured in the September/October edition of Relevant Magazine. 

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4 Nathan George

Nathan George is a business development expert driven by his faith. He believes that ethical, sustainable business models are essential to breaking the cycles of poverty and dependence in developing countries. Nathan started a business called Trade As One to bring products from missionary and transformational businesses to the US market. He sees a huge market in the US for good products with a story – products that free people from bondage.

Website:

2 Featured Music Artists

1 Phil Wickham

Phil Wickham is a Christian singer, songwriter, and guitarist from San Diego, California. His albums include: Give You My World (2003), Phil Wickham (2006), and Cannons (2007). Phil has performed with contemporary Christian artists such as MercyMe, Audio Adrenaline and The David Crowder Band, and has an upcoming national tour of churches, universities and the Spirit West Coast music festival. We are thrilled that Phil will be leading worship and sharing his music with us.

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YouTube:

2 Heatherlyn

Heatherlyn is an independent singer, song-artist, poet, communicator, and worship leader. She has served five years on the Worship Arts Team at Prince of Peace River of Joy. Heatherlyn studied and earned a B.A. in Biblical and Theological Studies and a minor in Youth Ministries from Gordon College in Wenham, MA, from where she was launched into various opportunities as a worship leader for GROUP workcamps, various churches, and youth ministries. Heatherlyn shares her gifts of music and a message of hope all throughout her community, in coffee shops, and common gathering places. By partnering with non-profit organizations, faith communities, and local businesses, she brings people together and creates space not only for inspiration, but also empowerment to respond to God's call of active compassion.

3 LaSundra

LaSundra currently holds a BA in Human Development, and is a student at Fuller Theological Seminary for a Master's in Worship Arts, and travels to minister in various parts of the Bay Area, and the U.S., in both song and Word.  She's been to South Africa, and would like to travel to more foreign countries at some point. As a worshiper, worship leader, one who Lives to worship God, a registered song writer with BMI, her greatest desire is to sing only what she's lived – and to live what she sings. "I want to be captured by what I am after...Christ! To God be the Glory!" ~LaSundra

Breakout Sessions

1 Schedule Overview

Breakout sessions will provide you the opportunity to look more deeply into several areas of human trafficking and the different ways you can engage to combat it. There will be 14 different presentations made over two sessions. You will have the opportunity to attend two of these presentations.

All Breakout and Plenary Session talks will be taped and posted online following the conclusion of the conference at freedom-.

| |Plenary Room |Breakout Room 1 |

|CA, USA |Southeast Asia - Cambodia |Sex |

|Website |Email |Phone |Address |

|  |aim4asia@ |916 947 1016 |PO Box 2037, Rocklin, CA 95677 |

| | |916 765 2413 | |

1 Arms of Love 

Christian organization that provides family-based, long-term residential care for children who have been permanently separated from their natural families due to a combination of death, abandonment, or serious abuse.

|Headquarters |Target Region |Type of Slavery |

|CA |South America -  Brazil, Mexico, Nicaragua, |Sex |

| |Phillipines, Senegal | |

|Website |Email |Phone |Address |

| |armsoflove@  |949 351 2651 |2973 Harbor Blvd. #535, Costa |

| | | |Mesa, CA 92626 |

Bal Vikas Ashram

Subset of Free the Slaves.  Rehabilitation center for children aged 8-14 who have been rescued from slavery in Uttar Pradesh, in northern India.

|Headquarters |Target Region |Type of Slavery |

|Wash DC |Southeast Asia, India |Child Labor  |

|Website |Email |Phone |Address |

| |info@  |202 638 1865  |N/A |

           

3 Breaking Free  

Serving women and girls involved in systems of prostitution/sex trafficking and other battered women who have been involved in the criminal justice system.

|Headquarters |Target Region |Type of Slavery |

|MN |Minnesota  -  USA |Sex  |

|Website |Email |Phone |Address |

|  |breakingfree@ |651 645 6557 |P.O. Box 4366, St. Paul, MN |

| | | |55104  |

                         

4 Campus Coalition Against Trafficking

Raise awareness, advocate for  anti-trafficking legislation, fundraise, and collaborate with the Not For Sale Campaign, Slavery Still Exists, Red Light Children, Free the Slaves, The Thailand Project, and Anti-Trafficking International.

|Headquarters |Target Region |Type of Slavery |

|Wash DC  | Global  -  Balkans, Former Soviet Union, |Child Labor, Sex  |

| |Central Asia, Africa, US    | |

|Website |Email |Phone |Address |

|ccatcoalition.web. |Apowell@  |202 265 1505 | FAIR Fund, Inc., P.O. Box 21656,|

| | | |Washington, DC 20009  |

               

5 Captive Daughters

Efforts focus on combating sex trafficking particularly as it affects girl children and adolescent females; to bring public attention to and call for the elimination of the forced prostitution of girls and adolescent females.

|Headquarters |Target Region |Type of Slavery |

| CA |North America  -  California, Nepal |Sex  |

|Website |Email |Phone |Address |

| |mail@ |310 815 9197  |3503 Overland Ave. #110-108, Los |

| | | |Angeles, CA 90034-5696  |

                               

6 Chab Dai Coalition

End human trafficking exploitation &abuse through collaboration, networking, prevention and direct project development.

|Headquarters |Target Region |Type of Slavery |

|Cambodia |Southeast Asia  -  Cambodia  |Child Labor, Sex |

|Website |Email |Phone |Address |

| |   usoffice@ |916 983 4918   |P.O. Box 1185, Phnom Penh, |

| | | |Cambodia   |

7 Child Voice International  

Christian organization seeking to restore the voices of children silenced by war. Child soldiers and orphans.

|Headquarters |Target Region |Type of Slavery |

|NH |Africa  -  Uganda |Child Soldiers |

|Website |Email |Phone |Address |

| |  info@ |603 842 0132 |PO Box 579, Durham, NH 03824 |

| |   | | |

                       

8 Children of the Night

Dedicated to assisting children between the ages11 and 17 who are forced into prostitution for food and a place to sleep

|Headquarters |Target Region |Type of Slavery |

|CA |Van Nuys, CA    USA  |Child Prostitution |

|Website |Email |Phone |Address |

| |llee@ |818 908 4474  |14530 Sylvan Street, Van Nuys, |

| | | |CA  91411 |

          

9 Children's Aid Fund: Generacion Institute

Focus on street children’s rights and provide shelter with educational, artistic, recreational and employment opportunities. Emphasis on young women that have been sexually exploited, offering reintegration programs

|Headquarters |Target Region |Type of Slavery |

|CA |South America  -  Peru |Sex  |

|Website |Email |Phone |Address |

| |kique@ |N/A |P.O. Box 371035, 122 Seacliff |

| | | |Court, Montara, CA 94037  |

                    

10 Courage to Be You, Inc

Operate Courage House, for children to provide emotional, physical & spiritual healing.

|Headquarters |Target Region |Type of Slavery |

|CA  |Northern California  -  USA |Sex |

|Website |Email |Phone |Address |

| |info@ |916 335 9043 |3031 Stanford Ranch Rd., Suite 2 #433 |

| | | |Rocklin, CA 95765   |

11 DC Stop Modern Slavery Group

A grassroots social network in the Washington, D.C. area seeking to leverage the power of their community to build a world without slavery.

|Headquarters |Target Region |Type of Slavery  |

|Wash DC  |North America    Wash DC |Sex  |

|Website |Email |Phone |Address |

|  |organizers@ |N/A |PO Box 73064, Washington, DC |

| | | |20056  |

                  

12 Divine Inheritance

Remove child soldiers from hopeless situations and give them shelter, food, clothing, education, spiritual care and love.

|Headquarters |Target Region |Type of Slavery |

| TN |Southeast Asia |Child Soldiers  |

|Website |Email |Phone |Address |

|  |  admin@ |877 421 2615 |215 General J B Hood Drive, |

| | | |Franklin, Tennessee 37069-6421   |

              

13 EITC End Internet Trafficking Coalition

National coalition whose mission is to prevent sexual violence and human trafficking via the Internet.

|Headquarters |Target Region |Type of Slavery |

|Wash DC |N/A |N/A |

|Website |Email |Phone |Address |

|  | info@   |203 772 3207 | |

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15 FAIR Fund

Prevents the commercial sexual exploitation of teens. JewelGirls, an economic empowerment and art therapy initiative for adolescent girl survivors of human trafficking, sexual violence, and street life.

|Headquarters |Target Region |Type of Slavery |

|Wash DC |Central Asia, Eastern Europe, East Africa, |Domestic Sex, War |

| |United States, Latin America, Balkans, | |

| |Bosnia, Cameroon, Kenya, Russia, Uganda   | |

|Website |Email |Phone |Address |

|   |infor@ |202 265 1505 |P.O. Box 21656, Washington, DC |

| | | |20009  |

16 Free For Life  

Raise awareness about human sexual trafficking and to raise financial support for outreach.

|Headquarters |Target Region |Type of Slavery |

|  TN |Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, India, |Child Labor, Sex |

| |Nepal, Romania   | |

|Website |Email |Phone |Address |

| |  info@ |  615-969-9052   |PO Box 158715, Nashville, TN |

| |   | |37215-8715 |

|     | | | |

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18 Free the Slaves

To eradicate slavery worldwide, help victims rebuild their lives and use research and stories to influence the powerful to end slavery. Largest anti-slavery organization in the US.

|Headquarters |Target Region |Type of Slavery |

| Wash DC  |Global  |Domestic Labor, Sex   |

|Website |Email |Phone |Address |

|  |info@  |202 638 1865 |514 10th St., NW 7th Floor, |

| | | |Washington DC 20004   |

             

19 Hagar International 

Restoring abused, exploited, and abandoned women and children to life in all its fullness through quality holistic healing, community reintegration and social entrepreneurship”.

|Headquarters |Target Region |Type of Slavery |

|Cambodia |Southeast Asia,  Afghanistan, Cambodia, |Domestic   Sex   |

| |India, Vietnam | |

|Website |Email |Phone |Address |

|   |info@    |815 23 219 045 220 127   |#53D Street 242, Sangkat Veal |

| | | |Vong, Khan 7 Makara. PO Box 1521,|

| | | |Phnom Penh, Cambodia |

20 International Justice Mission

Human rights agency seeking justice for victims of slavery, sexual exploitation, providing investigators & aftercare. Purposes include victim relief, perpetrator accountability, victim aftercare, structural transformation

|Headquarters |Target Region |Type of Slavery |

|Wash DC |  Global  -  Cambodia, Phillippines, |Child, Labor, Sex |

| |Thailand, India,      Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda,| |

| |Zambia, Bolivia, Guatemala, Honduras, Peru  | |

|Website |Email |Phone |Address |

|   |contact@ |703 465 5495 |PO Box 58147, Washington, CD |

| | | |20037 |

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22 Invisible Children 

Create awareness of plight of the people of northern Uganda, caught in the midst of a 23 year old civil war and Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army, a rebel group that makes extensive use of kidnapping children and making child soldiers.

|Headquarters |Target Region |Type of Slavery |

|CA  |Africa  -  Uganda, DR Congo |Child Soldiers |

|Website |Email |Phone |Address |

| |info@ |619 562 2799  |1620 5th Ave, Suite 400 San |

| | | |Diego, CA 92101 |

                         

23 La Strada International

Network of 9 NGOs focused on prevention of human trafficking, focus on women in Central and Easter Europe. Focus predominantly on women trafficked in sex,  domestic work, sweatshops, construction work or agricultural labour.

|Headquarters |Target Region |Type of Slavery |

|  Amsterdam |Europe  -  Belarus, Bosnia, Herzegovina, |Domestic Labor, Sex |

| |Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Macedona, Moldova,| |

| |Netherlands, Poland, Ukraine  | |

|Website |Email |Phone |Address |

|   |info@  |31 (0) 20 688 1414   |De Wittenstraat 25, 1052 AK |

| | | |Amsterdam, The Netherlands   |

                    

24 Love 146  

Works towards the abolition of child sex slavery and exploitation through Prevention and Aftercare.

|Headquarters |Target Region |Type of Slavery |

|  CT |Southeast Asia    Cambodia India    |Sex |

| |Phillipines Sri Lanka Thailand  | |

|Website |Email |Phone |Address |

| |info@  |203 772 4420   |PO Box 8266, New Haven, CT |

| | | |06530   |

             

25 Nepalese Youth Opportunity Foundation 

Rescue girls whose families have sold them into virtual slavery.

|Headquarters |Target Region |Type of Slavery |

|CA |Southeast Asia, Nepal |Labor |

|Website |Email |Phone |Address |

| |  info@ |415 331 8585 |3030 Bridgeway, Suite 123, |

| | | |Sausalito, CA 94965  |

                                  

26 NightLight

A ministry to meet multiple needs of females in prostitution, assist them in emergency aid, educational and employment opportunities, emergency child-care, language, literacy, and biblical teaching.

|Headquarters |Target Region |Type of Slavery |

|Bangkok   |Southeast Asia  -  Thailand |Sex |

|Website |Email |Phone |Address |

| |nightlightbkk@ |N/A |PO Box 1414, Nana Post Office, |

| | | |Bangkok, Thailand |

                     

Not For Sale

Equips and mobilizes Activists to deploy innovative solutions to re-abolish slavery in their own backyards and across the globe.

|Headquarters |Target Region |Type of Slavery |

|CA  |Global  -  Ghana, Nepal, Peru, Thailand, |Sex |

| |Uganda  | |

|Website |Email |Phone |Address |

| |N/A |N/A |P.O. Box 37035, 122 Seacliff |

| | | |Court, Montara, CA 94037  |

                      

28 Polaris Project

Anti-trafficking organization focusing on all types of trafficking through outreach, victim identification, provision of social services, transitional housing to victims, operating the National Human Trafficking Resource Center (NHTRC), serving as the central national hotline on human trafficking, legislation advocate and engaging in local and national grassroot efforts.

|Headquarters |Target Region |Type of Slavery |

|  Wash DC |Global | Domestic Labor, Sex  |

|Website |Email |Phone |Address |

|  |info@   |202 745 1001 |P.O. Box 77892 Washington, DC |

| | | |20013 |

                     

29 Predator Project (SHI) 

A project of SHI; investigates, profiles and undercovers those who prey on vulnerable women and children around the world.

|Headquarters |Target Region |Type of Slavery |

|WA |Global |Sex |

|Website |Email |Phone |Address |

| |savelives@ |866 437 5433 |P.O. Box 65337 Vancouver, WA |

| | | |98665  |

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Protection Project

Human right research institute at John Hopkins University to address trafficking (especially women and children) through research, NGO development, education, and law. Published laws, reports and research findings.

|Headquarters |Target Region |Type of Slavery |

|Wash DC |Global  |Labor, Sex, Women and Children |

|Website |Email |Phone |Address |

| |protection_project@jhu.edu   |202 663 5896 |  SAIS, John Hopkins University, |

| | | |1717 Massachusetts Ave NW, |

| | | |Washington, D.C. 20036   |

                  

31 Providence World Ministries

Child and adoption advocacy as well as orphan and widow care

|Headquarters |Target Region |Type of Slavery |

|TN |Central America  -  Honduras |Sex |

|Website |Email |Phone |Address |

|   providence |info@ |916 705 9357  |  PO Box 50413, Nashville, TN  |

| |providence | |37205-0413 |

|  |   | | |

               

32 Regina Pacis Fund

A multipurpose center receiving immigrants who have been victims of sexual exploitation with offers of social protection, psychological and medical assistance, education, employment and reintegration programs. They serve women from Turkey, Israel, Arabic countries, Cyprus, Greece, Balkan countries, Italy, France, Germany and Spain who are victims of establishment and organized crime.

|Headquarters |Target Region |Type of Slavery |

|San Foca di Melendugno, in province of Lecce| Eastern Europe  -  Moldova |Sex, Sex Tourism   |

|Website |Email |Phone |Address |

| |fondazione@ |0039 0832 881094 |Lungomare Matteotti, I-73026 SAN |

| | | |FOCA DI MELENDUGNO |

         

33 Rugmark   

Global nonprofit organization working to end illegal child labor in the carpet industry and to offer educational opportunities to children in India and Nepal. Provides third party certification program that no illegal child labor was employed in rug products purchased.

|Headquarters |Target Region |Type of Slavery |

|Wash, DC |  Southeast Asia, India, Nepal |Child Labor |

|Website |Email |Phone |Address |

|   |Info@ |202-234-9050 |2001 S Street NW, Suite 430, |

| | | |Washington, DC 20009  |

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Salvation Army

Organized the National Anti-trafficking Council, which focuses on the prevention of human trafficking, have services for survivors, receive funding for projects under the U.S. Department of Justice, and run PROMISE, a movement to eliminate the sexual exploitation of children. Great resources page

|Headquarters |Target Region |Type of Slavery |

|USA Western Territory |USA |Child Sex, Sex |

|Website |Email |Phone |Address |

| |N/A |562-436-7000 |180 East Ocean Blvd. |

| | | |Long Beach, CA 90802 |

35 Sankalp

Comat child labor, provide for rehabilitation andsocial reintegration of children removed from the child labor by ensuring access to free basic education and appropriate vocational training, and, work towards the elimination of sexual exploitation of children (including pornography, prostitution and pedophilia).

|Headquarters |Target Region |Type of Slavery |

|New Dehli, India |India   |Child Labor, Child Sex |

|Website |Email |Phone |Address |

| |info@  | |B-1/8, 2nd Floor, Africa Avenue |

| | |91-11-26191447 |Road, Safdarjung Enclave, New |

| | | |Delhi-110 029   |

                  

36 Shared Hope International (SHI) 

Examine the conditions that allow women and children to be bought and sold, documents the marketplaces of victimization worldwide. Global efforts to halt sex slavery through prevention, rescue and restoration.

|Headquarters |Target Region |Type of Slavery |

|WA |Global  -  Argentina, Australia, Czech |Sex  |

| |Republic, Domincan Republic, Fiji, India, | |

| |Indonesia, Jamaica, Japan, Moldova, Nepal, | |

| |Netherlands, Singapore, So. Africa, USA  | |

|Website |Email |Phone |Address |

|  |savelives@ |866 437 5433 |P.O. Box 65337 Vancouver, WA |

| | | |98665 |

                    

37 Sojourners

Mission is to articulate the biblical call to social justice, inspiring hope and building a movement to transform individuals, communities, the church, and the world. Publish Sojourner magazine, SojoMail, support voluntary service.

|Headquarters |Target Region |Type of Slavery |

|Wash DC |Non specific |Non specific |

|Website |Email |Phone |Address |

|  |sojourners@   |202 328 8842 |3333 14th St. NW, Suite 200, |

| | | |Washington D.C. 20010  |

     

38 Solidarity Center 

Identify, protect and reintegrate child laborers, and protect worker rights through education regarding human trafficking ploys.

|Headquarters |Target Region |Type of Slavery |

|Wash DC |Global  -  DR Congo, Kenya, Domican |  Labor, Sex   |

| |Republic, Indonesia   | |

|Website |Email |Phone |Address |

|  |Information@ |  202-974-8383  |888 16th Street NW, Suite 400, |

| |  | |Washington, DC 20006   |

             

39 Somaly Mam Foundation

Focuses on eradicating the root of human trafficking, exemplifying a global vision and dedication that will allow its work in the US and South East Asia to expand to other countries around the world.

|Headquarters |Target Region |Type of Slavery |

|CO |Southeast Asia  -  Cambodia |  Sex |

|Website |Email |Phone |Address |

| |N/A |N/A |PO Box 1272, Wheat Ridge, CO |

| | | |80034 |

                  

40 Standing Against Global Exploitation

Designed for and run predominantly by survivors; offers legislators, law enforcement, and others valuable survivor-oriented perspective. Multiple services focusing on education, awareness, wellness, empowerment, safety, and support.

|Headquarters |Target Region |Type of Slavery |

|   CA |  North America  -  California |Sex   |

|Website |Email |Phone |Address |

|  |info@   |415 905 5050 |1275 Mission Street, San |

| | | |Francisco, CA 94103 |

                     

41 The Code

Organization enrolling travel and tourist companies to protect children from sex-tourism.

|Headquarters |Target Region |Type of Slavery |

|  NY |Global  |Sex    (Tourism) |

|Website |Email |Phone |Address |

|     | |718 935 9192   |C. Tepelus, c/o ECPAT USA, 157 |

| |camelia.tepelus@   | |Montague St, Brooklyn, NY 11201 |

            

42 The Defenders USA (SHI)

A project of SHI; this is a coalition of men who have taken a stand against all forms of commercial sex—a market that exploits women and children.

|Headquarters |Target Region |Type of Slavery |

|WA |USA  |Child Sex |

|Website |Email |Phone |Address |

| |N/A |N/A |N/A |

          

43 The Emancipation Network (TEN): Made By Survivors

International organization dedicated to fighting human trafficking and modern day slavery by helping survivors of slavery rebuild with sustainable income, education and help reintegrating into society

|Headquarters |Target Region |Type of Slavery |

|  MA  |Southeast Asia,  Africa  -  Burma, Cambodia,|Sex   |

| |India,    Nepal, Phillipines, Thailand, | |

| |Uganda  | |

|Website |Email |Phone |Address |

|   |On-Line Form Completion   |800 831 6089 |172 Route 6A, Sandwich, MA |

                

44 The Sold Project  

Grassroots organization dedicated to inspiring and empowering individuals through film and other means to stop child prostitution before it begins.

|Headquarters |Target Region |Type of Slavery |

|CA |Southeast Asia  -  Thailand |Sex |

|Website |Email |Phone |Address |

| |contact@ |N/A |3037-T Hopyard Road, Suite O, |

| | | |Pleasanton, CA 94588  |

                        

45 Tiny Stars

NGO dedicated to working w US Federal Law Enforcement to gather evidence against American chid predators by funding undercover agents to  develop evidence against American child predators who travel around the world to engage in sex with children as young as 3.

|Headquarters |Target Region |Type of Slavery |

| Malibu, CA |Global |Child Sex |

|Website |Email |Phone |Address |

|  |jake@  |646 812 6925  |23852 PCH Suite 639, Malibu, CA |

| | | |90265 |

              

46 Trade As One

Mission is to use sustainable business to break cycles of poverty and dependency in the developing world. Desire to educate against the empty consumerism that has left much of the developed worth bereft of meaning and purpose. They believe Fair Trade is a way to alleviate both.

|Headquarters |Target Region |Type of Slavery |

|  Freemont, CA |Global |All |

|Website |Email |Phone |Address |

|  |info@  |(510) 659-4024 |41829 Albrae Street |

| | | |Suite 102 |

| | | |Fremont, CA  94538 |

47 War Against Trafficking Alliance (WATA)

A project of SHI; coordinates efforts to combat sex trafficking in targeted regions throughout the world and seeks strategies for intervention and restoration for victims.

|Headquarters |Target Region |Type of Slavery |

|WA   |Global  -  Dominican Republic, India, |Sex |

| |Indonesia, Moldova, Singapore, South Africa,| |

| |USA | |

|Website |Email |Phone |Address |

|     | savelives@  |866 437 5433   |P.O. Box 65337 Vancouver, WA |

| | | |98665 |

            

48 Winrock International

Reduces the incidence of human trafficking through comprehensive programs that empower individuals, raise public awareness, foster community-based initiatives and affect change in government responses and similar focus for child labor.

|Headquarters |Target Region |Type of Slavery |

|Arkansas, Virginia |  Global  |Child Labor, Sex   |

|Website |Email |Phone |Address |

| |Information@  |  501 280 3000 (Arkansas) |2101 Riverfront Drive, Little |

| | |or |Rock, Arkansas 72202 |

| | |703 525 9430 |or |

| | |(Virginia) |1621 North Kent St, Suite 1200 |

| | | |Arlington, Virginia 22209 |

    

49 World Vision Meero

Participates in multiple projects, including anti-trafficking projects in Mekong Delta, Myanmar, India, and Cambodia. They provide resources to fight poverty and support education for girls in Afghanistan to prevent forced girl brides.

|Headquarters |Target Region |Type of Slavery |

|  Cyprus |Southeast Asia  -  Afghanistan, Cambodia, |Child Brides, Sex   |

| |India | |

|Website |Email |Phone |Address |

|  meero. |31-180-525-747   |P.O Box 28979, 2084 Nicosia, |

|x.php?countryID=-1   |contact.php  | |Cyprus |

2 Book List: Categorized by Subject

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1 Christians, Justice and the Antislavery Movement

Title: Good News About Injustice

Author: Gary Haugen

Summary: Gary Haugen, the Founder and President of International Justice Mission, a Christian human rights organization, shares his journey in becoming an advocate for the oppressed. He tells the story of his experience in Rwanda, where he encountered suffering as a reality by personally witnessing the effects of state-sponsored violence. Using Biblical passages, Haugen outlines the character of God as a God of hope, compassion, mercy and justice. Haugen encourages Christians to actively pursue justice and to defend the oppressed with individual skills and gifts, and he uses the stories of three Christians as examples of the potential for change through compassion, courage and action.

Title: Just Courage

Author: Gary Haugen

Summary: Haugen writes about the Biblical call to justice and compassion. He explains that among Christians, there is a trend to neglect action because of fear. Using scriptural support, Haugen instead encourages believers to embrace the costs of following Jesus and to fulfill God's plan for justice.

Title: Be the Change: Your Guide to Freeing Slaves and Changing the World

Author: Zach Hunter

Summary: Zach Hunter is a teenage abolitionist who serves as the global student spokesperson for the Amazing Change, a social justice campaign partnered with the film Amazing Grace. He encourages young students and adults to take action in their everyday lives to end modern day slavery.

Title: Out of the Depths

Author: John Newton

Summary: The autobiographical account of John Newton, a leading campaigner to end slavery in Britain, documents his transformation from a former slave-ship captain to a Christian abolitionist. Newton is the author of the hymn Amazing Grace.

Title: Real Christianity

Author: William Wilberforce

Summary: Real Christianity is the book that helped inspire the abolitionist movement in Britain over 200 years ago. Through a theological perspective, Wilberforce encourages action by explaining the difference between cultural Christianity and true faith.

Title: Amazing Grace in the Life of William Wilberforce

Author: John Piper

Summary: Piper explains the role of William Wilberforce’s personal faith, convictions and motivations that inspired his passion for the abolitionist movement and that led to his emergence as a Christian leader of social justice.

Title: Bury the Chains: The British Struggle to Abolish Slavery

Author: Adam Hochschild

Summary: Award-winning author Adam Hochschild writes a historical account of human rights activism in the 18th century. Over two hundred years ago in England, a group of twelve men decided their mission was to end human slavery; Hochschild particularly focuses on two men, John Newton, a former slave-ship captain who later became a Christian and wrote the hymn Amazing Grace, and Thomas Clarkson, an abolitionist campaigner and scholar. With persistent grass-roots organization, these men successfully organized a boycott against sugar, a slave-produced good to create a social movement against slavery. Their long-term commitment through organizing public citizens, forming committees and lobbying Parliament eventually led to the abolition of slavery in Britain in the 1933. This book documents the potential for mass social change that can conquer over the vast interests of business and politics.

Title: Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery

Author: Eric Metaxas

Summary: Metaxas writes a biographical account of William Wilberforce and the abolitionist movement in Britain during the 18th and 19th centuries. A New York Times bestseller, this book accompanies the 2007 movie Amazing Grace.

2 Background Information on Human Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery

Title: A Crime so Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern Day Slavery

Author: E. Benjamin Skinner

Summary: Skinner, a journalist, writes about his encounters with human slavery around the world. He describes child slavery in Haiti, sex trafficking in Europe and Asia, as well as slavery in the United States suburbs. Skinner focuses on individual narratives and then explain how these personal stories represent the greater trends and general patterns of victims. Skinner documents the conditions of the countries where he travels, the process of infiltrating slave rings by posing as a “john” or potential customer, and the gross truth that is the relative ease of acquiring human life with a single purchase. He also discusses the politics involved in human slavery, from the role of complicit law enforcement officers to the difficulty in getting the United States government to acknowledge that modern day slavery is a global problem for which we are responsible to fight. Skinner highlights the work of Ambassador John Miller, who is featured in Call and Response, a documentary on human trafficking, as Ambassador Miller’s efforts, especially his implementation of annual reports to hold nations accountable for the prevalence of human trafficking and exploitation within their own borders.

Title: Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy

Author: Kevin Bales

Summary: Although slavery is now illegal, slavery is more common than every. As a trained political scientist, Bales adopts an economic and moral approach in his book by asserting that slavery is not a historical issue but a reality that demands humanitarian attention. Bales links the growth of slavery to a global economy dependent on exploited labor. Under the current economic structure, human lives are considered as high-supply, expendable, low-cost units of production that generate high profits. Bales describes the conditions of forced workers in India, Pakistan, Brazil and Thailand while explaining how cultural, social and economic values promote slavery. Bales' book was the basis for an Emmy and Peabody award winning documentary The Carpet Slaves: Stolen Children of India, and all proceeds of this book are donated to antislavery projects. Bales serves as the President for Free the Slaves, an antislavery organization.

Title: Ending Slavery: How We Free Today’s Slaves

Author: Kevin Bales

Summary: Bales highlights the stories and conditions of child slaves, particularly children in Africa who are forced to harvest cocoa beans to produce chocolate and children in India who are forced into the fabric and weaving industries. Bales discusses a variety of solutions to end global human exploitation ranging from tactics of public shame to political pressure and police raids. Bales supplements his writing with stories from on the ground activists and provides a guide of how-to steps for a functional plan to stop modern day slavery.

Title: Not for Sale: The Return of the Global Slave Trade and How We Can Fight It

Author: David Batstone

Summary: David Batstone, an award-winning journalist as well as the Founder and Director of the Not For Sale Campaign, documents his experience in confronting modern day slavery after a police raid on a trafficking ring in his own neighborhood. Batstone addresses the different kinds of global exploitation through the personal narratives of both victims and people taking heroic action. He documents cases of sex slavery in Cambodia, Thailand, Peru and Europe, forced labor in South Asia, child soldiers in Uganda and domestic trafficking within the United States. He outlines various opportunities for all citizens to take action in fighting slavery locally and around the world. Batstone also highlights the efforts of antislavery and anti-trafficking organizations dedicated to rescuing victims, spreading public awareness, enforcing policy and changing economic practices.

Title: Enslaved: True Stories of Modern Day Slavery

Author(s): Jesse Sage and Liora Kasten

Summary: Enslaved presents the stories of seven former slaves and one slave owner. Victims include women who are trafficked internationally into the United States as well as American citizens who are forced into slavery within the United States. The authors also focus on the topic of consumerism as an influential factor in perpetuating modern day slavery.

Title: Women, Children for Sale: The New Slave Trade in the 21st Century

Author: Gilbert King

Summary: King compiles quotes from politicians, news stories, statistics and specifically the 2003 Trafficking in Persons Report to review existing academic work and to present a historical perspective of slavery, from the Greco-Roman empire to the African Slave Trade to current modern day slavery.

Title: The Trafficking of Persons: National and International Responses

Author: Kimberly A. Mccabe (2008)

Summary: Mccabe outlines the types of human trafficking and focuses on human trafficking as criminal activity. She relates the action of traffickers to international law and presents questions at the end of each chapter to challenge readers with the perspective of human trafficking as an international crime.

Title: Gender, Trafficking and Slavery

Author: Rachel Masika

Summary: Masika focuses on the role of gender, poverty and conflict in promoting situations of human trafficking and modern day slavery. The book presents case studies of victims and also outlines the efforts of development and human rights organizations to provide care and services to victims.

3 Subject: Slavery in the United States

Title: The Slave Next Door

Author: Kevin Bales and Ron Soodalter

Summary: This book is specific to slavery in the United States and document forced domestic servitude and forces child labor at factories as well as in service industries. The authors emphasize that slavery affects all of society and is present even in unexpected locations, such as suburban areas in the United States. This book offers a broad range of narratives from law enforcement officers, after-care service providers, traffickers and victimized slaves.

Title: Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy

Author: John Bowe

Summary: Bowe focuses on exploitation within the United States, specifically documenting the conditions of farm laborers as well as workers in the fabric and steel industries. Workers are held captive by actual violence or the threat of violence; although their slave holders do not legally own them, exploited laborers are physically and psychology forced to stay. Bowe also emphasizes the role of major corporations in fueling the demand for forced labor in order to produce cheap goods and services. As a result, Bowe suggests that all consumers contribute to human exploitation and advocates for personal action, such as paying laborers a living wage. Bowe predicts that without personal action and the enforcement of labor laws by government agencies, drastic inequalities will emerge and will destroy a fundamental sense of value for humanity.

Title: The War on Human Trafficking

Author: Anthony DeStefano

Summary: DeStefano is an attorney and a reporter who traces the political history of anti-trafficking legislation in the United States. DeStefano argues that human trafficking and exploitation is not about sensationalized debates regarding prostitution; rather, human trafficking is a human rights violation that includes victims of sexual slavery in addition to other types of forced labor, such as child slavery and exploitative industries such as chocolate and fabrics. In this way, he urges concerned citizens to move beyond simply relying on media coverage that documents personal narratives to instead critically examine the efforts of policy makers and public officials in actually fulfilling the legal guarantees to fight human trafficking through the protection of victims and the prosecution of perpetrators. His perspective evaluates the action and progress of the federal government through the creation and implementation of federal documents. DeStefano specifically focuses on the policy trajectory leading up to the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 and the subsequent legislation that nominally continues to support and expand this bill. He explains the context for policy efforts by describing the backlash that can occur when legislation is interpreted as part of a larger political agenda as well as the hindrance to policy implementation with limited resources, especially when other issues are considered to be a higher priority or of a more pressing interest. Finally, DeStefano reveals some of the difficulties in enforcing the policy aims due to technicalities, such as the inability to produce strong cases against traffickers due to the specific criteria of evidence.

Title: The Sacred Bath: An American Teen’s Story of Modern Day Slavery

Author: Theresa Flores

Summary: Flores shares her own story as a victim of modern day slavery in the United States. She was raised in an affluent, Catholic home in the suburbs of Detroit. As a teenager, she was drugged, kidnapped and forced into sexual slavery to pay back a debt. Flores now works as a counselor, social worker and a speaker about her own experiences.

Title: Smuggling and Trafficking in Human Beings: All Roads Lead to America

Author: Sheldon X. Zhang

Summary: This book incorporates academic studies, news, interviews and policy reports into well-documented empirical research from a law enforcement perspective. Zhang also discusses the relationship among national security, criminal activity and the economy that influences the persistence of human trafficking.

4 Child Soldiers

Title: A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Subject: Ishmael Beah

Summary: The autobiographical account of Ishmael Beah, who was abducted at the age of 12 and forced to fight as a soldier in Sierra Leone’s civil war. He was rescued by UNICEF and aid organizations at age 15 and later moved to the United States to complete his education.

Title: Girl Soldier: A Story of Hope for Northern Uganda’s Children

Author: Faith J. H. McDonnell and Grace Akallo

Summary: McDonnell and Akallo are co-authors of Akallo’s story as a child soldier in Northern Uganda. She was kidnapped by the Lord’s Resistance Army at age 15 to fight and raid villages. McDonnell outlines the history of the war in Uganda, specifically focusing on the religious claim by the LRA leader, Joseph Kon, and she also incorporates research from the Human Rights Watch report. McDonnell calls Christians to action by encouraging them to pray for protection for the children of Northern Uganda, for the end of the war and for the spread of public awareness.

Title: Children at War

Author: P.W. Singer

Summary: Singer documents the forced inclusion of children in war as involuntary soldiers and sexual slaves. He also discusses the incorporation of international laws that have been ineffective in preventing child soldiers, such as the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

5 Subject: Sex Trafficking and Sexual Slavery

Title: Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery

Author: Siddharth Kara

Summary: Coming from a business background with corporate business and banking experience, Kara presents a scholarly economic analysis and proposals for action to end human trafficking. He documents trafficking by region based on his travels in North America, Asia, Africa and Europe and describes personal narratives from his research interviews. Kara uses microeconomics and macroeconomics to explain the profitability outcomes that drive the persistence and growth of human exploitation. From community surveillance to heavy fines and enforced prison terms, Kara offers solutions to decrease the economic incentives to exploit. Kara serves on the Board of Directors for Free the Slaves.

Title: Terrify No More: Young Girls Held Captive and the Daring Undercover Operation to Win their Freedom

Author: Gary Haugen

Summary: This book details the work of International Justice Mission by describing the investigation and infiltration of a brothel in Svay Pak, Cambodia, to rescue girls enslaved as sex workers. Haugen outlines the preparations, legal skills and technical expertise required to execute this operation and documents the effects of on-the-ground interventions. Another example of IJM's work is their raid on a brick kiln in South Asia to free forced laborers.

Title: Selling Olga: Stories of Human Trafficking

Author: Louisa Waugh

Summary: Award-winning author and journalist Louisa Waugh compiles three years of in-depth research to address the operations of human trafficking and why human trafficking is thriving. Selling Olga presents the stories of women in Eastern Europe who are affected by war and poverty. Waugh also discusses the hope for change in a world where human trafficking remains prevalent despite the increasing global awareness about human trafficking.

Title: The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine

Author: Somaly Mam

Summary: The autobiography of Somaly Mam shares her story as a victim of modern day slavery. In 1980, she was a child living in Cambodia, but was sold by her family to pay off a debt. Forced into a brothel in Phnom Penh, Mam was trapped in sexual slavery until she married one of her foreign clients. After leaving her situation of bondage, she established an organization to help exploited women and children. Mam discusses the impact of HIV/AIDS on exploited sex workers, a public health issue affecting trafficked victims. She now works to rescue young women and girls, providing them with shelter, skills training and other support services.

Title: Sold

Author: Patricia Mccormick

Summary: A realistic fiction book, McCormick narrates from the perspective of 13-year-old Lakshmi who is raised in Nepal and then sold into sex slavery India.

Title: The Natashas: Inside the New Global Sex Trade

Author: Victor Malarek

Summary: As an award-winning Canadian journalist, Malarek describes the historical and current conditions that contribute to the trafficking of women for sexual exploitation. He documents how the break up of the Soviet Union, complacent national governments and law enforcement and organized crime perpetuates the victimization of impoverished women and orphans lured with the deception of safe and legal jobs.

Title: Sex Trafficking: The Global Market in Women and Children

Author: Kathryn Farr

Summary: This book describes the macro-level and the micro-level impacts of trafficking women and children into the sex industry. The main topics and themes focus on sex trafficking as both a social issue and a gender issue. Farr also presents sex trafficking within the context of a greater crime structure, economic conditions and demand for trafficked victims.

3 Film List

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Title: Amazing Grace

Summary: A film based on the life of antislavery pioneer William Wilberforce. Wilberforce was elected to the British House of Commons at the age of 21. On his way to a successful political career, Wilberforce, over the course of two decades, took on the English establishment and persuaded those in power to end the inhumane trade of slavery in the British Empire. To view a trailer go to:

Title: Anonymously Yours

Summary: The outcome of a daring filmmaking operation on sex-trafficking in a military state where nothing is as it seems. Four Burmese women’s strikingly different life experiences come together to reveal an institution that enslaves them and as many as forty million women worldwide in the fastest growing industry on earth: human sales. Clandestinely shot deep in the uncharted world of Southeast Asian sex trafficking, the film chronicles the merchandising of women commonplace in a land afflicted with staggering poverty and widespread corruption.

Title: A Question Of Rights: Girls Of Chaka Street

Summary: Examines the flourishing sex industry in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia which first took off after 1991 when the former Soviet Baltic republics gained independence and opened their borders to the outside world.

Title: Born Into Brothels

Summary: A documentary about children raised in Calcutta's red light district.

Title: Bought & Sold

Summary: An Investigative Documentary About the International Trade in Women

The documentary is based on a two year undercover investigation conducted by the Global Survival Network (GSN) into the illegal trafficking in women from the Former Soviet Republics, and features interviews with traffickers, Russian mafia, trafficked women, and groups working to provide services to trafficked women.

Title: Bucharest Express

Summary: An American journalist, a mysterious Gypsy woman and a bookkeeper with an inside angle try to stay one step ahead of a gang of ruthless killers as they uncover the horrors of the human trafficking of sex slaves in the Balkans.

    Young women are being transported to Bucharest with false promises of jobs as dancers and models. Once there, they are traded for heroin, stripped of their passports and shipped to Turkey for a life of prostitution.

    Countries throughout the former Soviet Union provide a chilling backdrop to a tangled web of corruption, betrayal and romance as this unlikely band of heroes tries to uncover the secrets of the flesh-for-heroin trade. Join them on an edge-of-your-seat adventure with a one-way ticket on the Bucharest Express. Bucharest Express is not a documentary, but rather a hard-hitting mystery that blows the lid off the ruthless trade of young women.

Title: Call + Response

Summary: This film brings together a star-studded musical cast to examine the issue of modern-day slavery and how we should and are responding when called to. The film is powerful, and the music is on the amazing side of awesome.

Title: Children for Sale

Summary: Dateline documentary shot by a film crew that went undercover with a human rights group to uncover sex trafficking in Cambodia.

Title: Dying to Leave

Summary: Every year, an estimated two to four million people are shipped in containers, shepherded through sewage pipes, secreted in car chassis, and ferried across frigid waters. Others travel on legitimate carriers but with forged documents. An alarming number of these migrants end up in bondage, forced to work as prostitutes, thieves, or as laborers in sweatshops. By listening to the voices of those who pulled up their roots, who risked all, the film will put a human face on what might otherwise be seen as statistical, overwhelming and remote. Focusing on five major stories whose journeys traverse 16 countries from Colombia to China, from Mexico to Moldova this documentary will look into the circumstances that drove these migrants from their homes, describe the difficulties involved in their epic journeys and reveal what awaits them in their new world.

Title: Holly

Summary: Set in Cambodia, a tale that depicts child prostitution through the non-sexual, complex relationship between Holly, a beautiful 12-year-old Vietnamese girl, and Patrick, an obsessive 40-year-old American stolen artifacts dealer.



Title: Human Trafficking

Summary: A two part mini-series starring Mira Sorvino and Donald Sutherland. Details the trafficking for sexual purposes of young women from Europe to the United States. Human Trafficking is probably the most watched media production on human trafficking. A gripping presentation that does much to educate the public on the realities of human/sex trafficking. images/movies/flash/humantrafficking/guide.pdf Excellent educational website.

Title: NOT for Sale: The Documentary

Summary: This film is based on the book of the same name and covers the modern-day abolitionist movement. The film both exposes the terrors of human trafficking and inspires hope through the stories and work of contemporary activists.

Title: Not My Life

Summary: Not My Life is a feature-length documentary film about global human trafficking, a horrifying modern-day phenomenon that affects millions of children, women, and men in every part of the world. Specific aspects of this emerging issue—especially female sexual trafficking—are to some degree being addressed in books, news stories, television reports, and fiction and non-fiction films. To date, however, there is no single communication tool that effectively depicts the problem as a whole for a mass audience. The rationale for Not My Life is that until such a tool is created and widely used, the general public will remain uninformed and indifferent, and a problem that is already very bad will only get worse.

Like Worldwide Documentaries’ 2003 release, A Closer Walk, the ultimate intent of Not My Life is to provide insight into ‘the way the world is’. Modern-day slavery thrives along transnational fault lines of extreme poverty, social injustice, political unrest, and acts of violence and deprivation that are morally indefensible and dangerous in the extreme. Insofar as it depicts a world in which millions of human beings have become disposable commodities, Not My Life is, first and foremost, a cautionary tale: human traffickers, and the corrupt or complacent systems in which they operate, undermine virtually every aspect of our collective well-being, including our security, health, economic stability, and sustainability as a global community.

Filming for Not My Life is taking place in North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Pre-production began in the Fall of 2005 and production has been underway since early 2007. The film is targeted for completion at the end of 2008.



Title: Sacrifice

Summary: Examines the social, cultural, and economic forces at work in the trafficking of Burmese girls into prostitution in Thailand. It is the story of the valuation and sale of human beings, and the efforts of teenage girls to survive a personal crisis born of economic and political repression.

Title: Salaam Bombay

Summary: A movie depicting poverty of Bombay and individuals' struggles to survive

Title: Sex Slaves

Summary: A PBS documentary FRONTLINE presents a unique hidden-camera look at this world of sexual slavery, talking with traffickers and their victims, and exposing the government indifference that allows the abuses to continue virtually unchecked. Sex Slaves also follows the remarkable journey of one man, determined to find his trafficked wife, who carried her photograph in his pocket and posed as a trafficker himself to buy back her freedom.

Title: Sisters and Daughters Betrayed

Summary: Sex trafficking is a global - and especially Asian - crisis of growing dimensions. Millions of women and young girls have been illegally transported from rural to urban areas and across national borders for the purpose of prostitution. This compelling video explores the social and economic forces that drive this lucrative underground trade, and the devastating impact it has on women's lives.

Title: So Great a Violence: Prostitution, Trafficking & the Global Sex Industry

Summary: The global sex industry can be challenged and its destruction of the human rights of women and children can be stopped--but only if there is the political will. This film inspires a campaign of zero tolerance of sexual exploitation if the promise of the universal human rights is to be realized.

Title: Stop the Traffic

Summary: Thirty years of war left Cambodia ravaged and poverty-stricken. Since the end of the brutal Khmer Rouge rule, poverty, corruption and global tourism have all made it particularly vulnerable to the child labor industry. Children are trafficked into cities from rural areas to become sex slaves or sex workers, or trafficked out to comparatively wealthy Thailand to work in Bangkok as beggars, domestic workers, or laborers on construction sites.

Title: Trafficking Cinderella

Summary: The documentary is a journey into a macabre world. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the resulting political and economic changes, there has been an alarming increase in forced prostitution and trafficking of women from Eastern Europe to the West and North America. Trafficking Cinderella features the gut wrenching testimonies of broken dreams, withered illusions, rape and humiliation from several Eastern European girls sold as prostitutes throughout the world.

Title: The Day My God Died

Summary: This is a feature-length documentary that tells the stories of Nepalese girls swept up by the international child sex trade. In their own words, we hear how the day traffickers took each of them from their rural villages and sold them into sexual servitude in the brothels of India. The girls describe it as, "the day my god died." The film documents the fact that these stories are not isolated or haphazard. The industry has formed pipelines in which every person in the chain profits except for the girls that pay the price with their lives. This heart-wrenching documentary offers a memorable portrayal of the corruption and evil behind the curtain of India's sex industry, providing us with a brief glimpse into a world seldom seen by outsiders.

Title: The Price of Youth

Summary: This movie examines the recent explosion in systematic trafficking of young girls and women from Nepal to work as prostitutes in Bombay, in neighboring India. Featuring undercover footage from WITNESS partner Andrew Levine and narrated by Winona Ryder, with music by K. Sridhar and Philip Glass, The Price of Youth exposes this horrific practice. It documents grassroots efforts to combat the forced prostitution of Nepali girls and to rehabilitate these young victims. The Price of Youth was featured as a "Work in Progress" at the Sundance International Film Festival. Footage and interviews from this film are incorporated into The Day My God Died.

Title: Trade

Summary: A film about two different girls from very different backgrounds who are both sold into prostitution and the sex slave industry. For more information and to view a trailer go to:

Title: Trading Women

Summary: Narrated by Angelina Jolie, this film investigates the trade in minority girls and women out of Burma, Yunnan and Laos into Thailand.

Title: Turning a Corner

Summary: The stories of people involved in the sex-trade in Chicago and their efforts to raise public awareness and promote needed reforms. The film includes over a dozen members of the Prostitution Alternatives Round Table (PART) who tell their stories of survival and triumph over homelessness, violence and discrimination, and gives rare insights into Chicago’s sex-trade industry.

Title: Very Young Girls

Summary: This film will make you very uncomfortable, as it focuses on American children in prostitution in America. Through the eyes of several women who have since escaped, we see the nuanced and brilliantly evil ways pimps and child sex traffickers lure and entice children into their "stables", and the tactics they use to keep them there.

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