Trafficking in Slavery's Wake: Law and the Experience of Women and Children in Africa

Contributors

259 Contributors margaret akullo is the regional project coordinator for a child sex tourism and child-trafficking initiative with the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, Regional Centre for East Asia and the Pacific, and a PhD student at Loughborough University. She is the coauthor, with David Harris and Ralph Sandland, of FRA Thematic Study on Child Trafficking (United Kingdom) (2009) and author of “Child Trafficking: A Metropolitan Police Perspective,” Siak-Journal: Zeitschrift für Polizeiwissenschaft und polizeiliche Praxis. Akullo was a contributor to the recent publication by UNICEF, Child Safety Online: Global Challenges and Strategies (2011). E-mail: margaret.akullo@unodc.org. jean allain is professor of law and director of the Human Rights Center, Queen’s University, Belfast, and Extraordinary Professor, Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria. He is the author of several monographs , including The Slavery Conventions (2008) and Slavery in International Law (2012), and has published in the leading international law journals on issues of slavery and human exploitation. Allain was a Leverhulme Research Fellow (2010–11), researching the law of slavery in domestic jurisdictions and headed a research network funded by the British Arts and Humanities Research Council network setting out the parameters of the 1926 definition of slavery (2009–11). E-mail: j.allain@qub.ac.uk. kevin bales is professor at the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation and president of Free the Slaves. His book, Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and has been published in eleven languages. Desmond Tutu called it “a well researched, scholarly and deeply disturbing exposé of modern slavery.” Dr. Bales served as a consultant to the UN Global Program on Human Trafficking and has advised the US, British, Irish, Norwegian, and Nepali governments , as well as the ECOWAS Community, on slavery and human trafficking policy. The film based on his book, which he co-wrote, won a Peabody Award and two Emmy Awards. He was awarded the Premio Viareggio for services to humanity in 2000. In 2005, he published Understanding Global Slavery. His work on slavery was named one of the “100 World-Changing Discoveries” by the Association of British Universities in 2006. His book Ending Slavery: 260 w Notes on Contributors How We Free Today’s Slaves was published in September 2007. In 2008, he published To Plead Our Own Cause: Personal Stories by Today’s Slaves with Zoe Trodd, and Documenting Disposable People: Contemporary Global Slavery with seven Magnum photographers. In 2009, he published The Slave Next Door: Modern Slavery in the United States with Ron Soodalter, and Modern Slavery: The Secret World of 27 Million People with Zoe Trodd and Alex Kent Williamson. Dr. Bales presented on modern slavery at the 2010 TED Conference . He received the $100,000 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for “Ideas Improving World Order” in 2011. He is currently writing a book on the relationship of slavery and environmental destruction and, with Jody Sarich, a book exploring forced marriage worldwide. liza buchbinder recently completed her doctorate in medical anthropology in a joint PhD program at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and UC Berkeley, and will be returning to her medical studies at UCSF. Her dissertation focused on the limits of naming violence against adolescent domestic servants through the rights discourse on child trafficking and called for alternative frameworks to address child labor exploitation in West Africa. E-mail: liza@berkeley.edu. bernard k. freamon is professor of law and director of the Zanzibar Program on Modern Day Slavery and Human Trafficking at Seton Hall Law School. He teaches courses on Islamic jurisprudence, evidence, civil rights, and slavery. He is currently pursuing a major research and writing project on the abolition of slavery in the Islamic world. His forthcoming book, Islam, Slavery, and Empire in the Indian Ocean World, is the first installment in that effort. A member of the American Law Institute, Freamon has been a fellow at the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale University. E-mail: Bernard.Freamon@shu.edu. susan kreston is a legal consultant to the UN, US, and foreign governmental departments, and to NGOs on trafficking in persons and violence against women and children. She was Fulbright Professor of Law and Psychology in South Africa (2005–8). She continues her work in southern Africa as a research fellow at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Kreston has served as deputy director of...