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Tom Farer is the Dean of the Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver. He was a member of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights between 1976 and 1983, serving as its President between 1980 and 1982.

John Hucker is Secretary General, Canadian Human Rights Commission. He received his LL.B. at University of Wales, and his LL.M. from Yale. He is a Barrister and Solicitor in Ontario, Canada.

Jelena Pejic is Europe Program Coordinator at the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights. She also directs the Committee’s activities in the field of international criminal justice, including war crimes and the establishment of a permanent International Criminal Court. Previously she was a visiting scholar at Columbia University Law School, and Assistant Professor of Public International Law and International Relations at Belgrade University Law School. She received her LL.M. from Columbia University and her undergraduate degree from Belgrade University. She has written and presented extensively on various issues of international law, including the ad hoc Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, citizenship and statelessness, fair trial, and international economic sanctions. She was a journalist for several years prior to specializing in international law.

Michael J. Perry is the Howard J. Trienens Chair in Law at Northwestern University.

Bharati Sadasivam is program coordinator for women’s rights at the Women’s Environment and Development Organization in New York. She has written extensively on development, women’s health, and rights issues as a journalist with The Times of India and other newspapers in Bombay, India. Ms. Sadasivam received her Master’s Degree in International Affairs from Columbia University in 1996.

Lee Tucker, former counsel to the Children’s Rights Project of Human Rights Watch, is currently a United States Assistant Federal Public Defender for the District of Arizona. She received her B.A. in Philosophy, Ohio State University, 1987; J.D., Harvard Law School, 1992. This article is adapted from The Small Hands of Slavery: Bonded Child Labor in India, a report written by Ms. Tucker for the Children’s Rights Project of Human Rights Watch and published in September 1996. Ms. Tucker gratefully acknowledges the assistance of Arvind Ganesan in researching and preparing The Small Hands of Slavery.

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