Modern Slavery

Jean Baderschneider, CEO, Global Fund to End Modern Slavery:
As we bring big data, analytics, and technology to the fight to end modern slavery, Siddharth Kara is here to hold us all to account on the realities, misery, and savagery of slavery. No one else can serve this powerful and important role. While many in this fight are sympathetic to the suffering, Kara not only brings true expertise, he brings true empathy. Read this book to immerse yourself in both.

Urmila Bhoola, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery:
Insightful, awe-inspiring, and hopeful. This book demonstrates the depraved depths to which humanity has sunk in its efforts to extract profit through the exploitation of human beings and highlights the factors that prevent us from making progress with eliminating these practices. Siddharth Kara writes with great love and compassion for survivors of slavery, human and organ trafficking, and forced labor, and his personal stories and insightful analyses force us to renew our commitment to creating a world free of slavery in which human dignity and human rights can triumph once again. A must-read for all those concerned about human rights and labor exploitation.

Luis CdeBaca, former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons:
Kara not only harnesses data and economic analysis to expose the ongoing shame of modern slavery, but reveals its underlying humanity—the cruelty of traffickers, the dignity of survivors, and the complicity of consumers. With both academic rigor and passion, Kara challenges us all to confront this global scourge.

Swanee Hunt, former U.S. Ambassador to Austria:
Expert. Investment banker. Consultant. Harvard instructor. Researcher. Activist. Screenplay writer. Poet. The author of Modern Slavery delivers horrific news and testimonies with phrases here and there so beautiful that the reader is lifted out of desperation enough to turn the next page. For all my association with the world of slavery, I’ve never known anyone remotely like Siddharth Kara. He grounds the reader through statistics and definitions before launching into scenes more true than any statistic or definition could ever be. No reader, however carefully clad in hyper-rationality, will emerge unchallenged and unchanged.