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7 entries under this heading — Last update Jan 28, 2008
7 entries under this heading — Last update Jan 28, 2008
Human Rights Advocacy Groups
- Release
- London, weekly updates, last before visit: Jun 2003
- Extent
- 356 pages (ca. 30.1 MiB) : 86 PDF docs., 1 RTF doc., 17 MS Word docs., 251 illustr.
- Last Visit
- Jul 1, 2003.
- Notes
- Includes site map and local search.
- Language
- English
- Includes
- Description
- Site of "the world's oldest international human rights organization" tracing back its roots to 1787. Today, Anti-Slavery focuses on the fight against 7 severe violations of human rights considered as "types of slavery exist[ing] today": (1) "bonded labour" (debt servitude), (2) "forced labour," (3) "the worst forms of child labour," (4) the "commercial sexual exploitation of children," (5) "trafficking" of human beings," (6) "early and forced marriage," and (7) "traditional or 'chattel' slavery."
- Related Names
- Anderson, Joan A. (webmaster)
- Release
- Baltimore, © 1997-2002 (Erols)
- Extent
- 5 pages (ca. 90 KiB) : 2 illustr.
- Last Visit
- Jul 4, 2003.
- Language
- English
- Includes
- Related Names
- Cotton, Samuel (exec. dir.)
- Release
- New York, [n. d., last update apparently 1998] (America Online)
- Extent
- 25 pages (ca. 850 KiB) : 27 illustr.
- Last Visit
- Jun 30, 2003.
- Language
- English
- Description
- Founded in 1995 by American, Mauritanian, and Sudanese activists. Appears to have ceased its activities.
- Related Names
- Torrès, Dominique (founder)
- Release
- Paris, last update Feb 2004
- Extent
- 153 pages (ca. 12.2 MiB) : 18 PDF docs., 49 illustr.
- Last Visit
- Jul 4, 2003.
- Notes
- English and German-language sites reported to be under construction, but apparently not actively pursued.
- Language
- French | Italian (parts only) | Spanish (parts only)
- Includes
- Description
- Organization founded by French journalist Dominique Torrès in 1994. The Comité seeks to help individuals found in slavery in France (and other European countries), to provide documentation on modern forms of slavery, and to raise public awareness of the problem. – CCEM coordinates the initiative Victims of Trafficking.
- Part of
- Werkstatt Ökonomie
- Related Name
- Heidel, Klaus (collab.)
- Release
- Heidelberg, 2001-2003
- Extent
- 4 pages (ca. 1.72 MiB) : 2 PDF docs.
- Last Visit
- Jan 20, 2008.
- Technical Notes
- Originally at: .
- Language
- German
- Includes
- Description
- German web presentation of a common initiative by several European advocacy groups under the coordination of Anti-Slavery International. From 2001-2003, the 'Werkstatt Ökonomie' (Economics Workshop) was the German partner of the project
- Related Names
- Bales, Kevin (president)
- Release
- Washington, D.C., c 2006
- Extent
- 16 pages : 26 illustr., 4 MP3 files
- Last Visit
- Jan 20, 2008.
- Notes
- Includes site map.
- Language
- English
- Includes
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- Presentation of the organization
- Overview of slavery today and brief historical survey
- Slavery in the news
- Campaign to end slavery within 25 years
- Success stories about slaves who gained their freedom
- Testimony of former slaves
- Research and Documents (downloads, incl. a 5-part cost-free education pack)
- Films and videos (for sale, in part accompanied by study guides available as cost-free downloads)
- warslavery.org, a campaign against trafficking in Iraq
- Artists against slavery
- Glossary
- Description
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Website of a non-profit organization working to end slavery. Free the Slaves point out that today the number of people living in slavery totals 27 mio. and is higher than at any point in history. Freeing these slaves and ending slavery is an ambitious, but attainable goal. – Kevin Bales, the president of the organization, is author of Disposable People
New Slavery in the Global Economy, revised edition,
with a new preface (Berkeley, Cal.: University of California Press, 2004); and of New Slavery: A Reference Handbook, 2nd edition, Contemporary World Issues Series (Santa Barbara, Cal.: ABC CLIO, 2004), reviewed for H-Genocide by Andrew F. Clarke, February 2006).
- Related Names
- Jacobs, Charles (founder) / Athie, Mohammed (co-founder) / Chand, David (co-founder)
- Release
- Boston, © 2008 [regular updates]
- Extent
- 706 pages (ca. 81.4 MiB) : 22 PDF docs., 6 MS Word docs., 477 illustr., 2 audio files, 1 shockwave-flash animation
- Last Visit
- Jan 20, 2008.
- Technical Notes
- The domain name iabolish.com now points to iabolish.org.
- Language
- English
- Includes
- Description
- Organization founded in 1994 to assist victims of modern slavery, to raise public awareness of the problem, and to lobby governments and international organizations to take action. Reports to have contributed to the freeing of 18,000 slaves. Uses the internet to promote its objectives (Freedom Action Network). Links to multi-media content on the internet. Provides teachers with classroom material.
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