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Trafficked child slave working in construction in New Delhi.

Trafficked East European women forced to transact for commercial sex on the streets of Copenhagen.

Trafficked Roma children forced to beg in Tirana, Albania.

Photos:	copyright Siddharth Kara
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Event Details

Presentation: “The Economics of Sex Trafficking”
by Siddharth Kara, author of Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery
Thursday, February 5, 2009
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Malkin Penthouse, Littauer Building, 4^th floor, Harvard Kennedy School

Please join us for a lecture and book signing with Siddharth Kara, author of Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery.

Related Links:

Complete Video
(see also the bottom of this page)
Video excerpt from his book Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery
Book Review: Columbia University Press.
An Interview with Siddhartha Kara, for Columbia University Press.

Co-sponsored with the Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard College

In 1995, Mr. Kara first encountered sexual slavery in a Bosnian refugee camp. He has since dedicated his life to traveling and learning the mechanisms behind the business of sex trafficking. Mr. Kara has taken a rare look at analyzing the local drivers and global macroeconomic trends that give rise to this burgeoning industry, in addition to quantifying the size, growth, and profitability of sex trafficking and other forms of modern slavery.

Siddharth Kara is a former investment banker and business executive with an MBA from Columbia University. He set aside his corporate career to pursue anti-slavery research, advocacy, and writing, and, more recently, a law degree. He currently serves on the board of directors of Free the Slaves, an organization dedicated to abolishing slavery worldwide. In 2005, he testified on contemporary slavery to the United States Congressional Human Rights Committee.

Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery
is available for purchase at
the The Harvard Coop Bookstore,
1400 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge.

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Complete Video of this Event:

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