Siddharth Kara is the first Fellow on Human Trafficking with the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He advises several governments as well as private and non-governmental organizations on antislavery policy and law and is the author of Bonded Labor: Tackling the System of Slavery in South Asia (Columbia, 2012).

A disturbing and illuminating study of one of the underbellies of economic globalization: the global sex trafficking industry. Irish Times An eloquent, campaigning book that addresses an evil that belittles our humanity. Financial Times Sex trafficking is more of a problem than most people realize. Read this well-written book and find out. -- Kirk Douglas The best book ever written on human trafficking for sexual exploitation. Representing a new period of solid yet humane scholarship, this breakthrough analysis represents a quantum leap in the study of this subject. Simply beyond anything I have seen anywhere. -- Kevin Bales, president of Free the Slaves Siddharth Kara possesses that rare and valuable combination of passion for his subject, insight, and rigorous research. His analysis is persuasive and his descriptions heartbreaking in their clarity. Human trafficking in all forms is slavery, no matter how you cut it, and in this book Kara brings a modern-day scourge to the light of day. -- Erica Stone, president, American Himalayan Foundation

• Preface Preface Acknowledgments 1. Sex Trafficking: An Overview 2. India and Nepal 3. Italy and Western Europe 4. Moldova and the Former Soviet Union 5. Albania and the Balkans 6. Thailand and the Mekong Subregion 7. The United States 8. A Framework for Abolition: Risk and Demand Appendix A: Selected Tables and Notes Appendix B: Contemporary Slavery Economics Appendix C: Selected Human Development Statistics Notes Works Cited Index

Siddharth Kara is the first Fellow on Human Trafficking with the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He advises several governments as well as private and non-governmental organizations on antislavery policy and law and is the author of Bonded Labor: Tackling the System of Slavery in South Asia (Columbia, 2012).

A disturbing and illuminating study of one of the underbellies of economic globalization: the global sex trafficking industry. Irish Times An eloquent, campaigning book that addresses an evil that belittles our humanity. Financial Times Sex trafficking is more of a problem than most people realize. Read this well-written book and find out. -- Kirk Douglas The best book ever written on human trafficking for sexual exploitation. Representing a new period of solid yet humane scholarship, this breakthrough analysis represents a quantum leap in the study of this subject. Simply beyond anything I have seen anywhere. -- Kevin Bales, president of Free the Slaves Siddharth Kara possesses that rare and valuable combination of passion for his subject, insight, and rigorous research. His analysis is persuasive and his descriptions heartbreaking in their clarity. Human trafficking in all forms is slavery, no matter how you cut it, and in this book Kara brings a modern-day scourge to the light of day. -- Erica Stone, president, American Himalayan Foundation

• Preface Preface Acknowledgments 1. Sex Trafficking: An Overview 2. India and Nepal 3. Italy and Western Europe 4. Moldova and the Former Soviet Union 5. Albania and the Balkans 6. Thailand and the Mekong Subregion 7. The United States 8. A Framework for Abolition: Risk and Demand Appendix A: Selected Tables and Notes Appendix B: Contemporary Slavery Economics Appendix C: Selected Human Development Statistics Notes Works Cited Index

Siddharth Kara is the first Fellow on Human Trafficking with the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He advises several governments as well as private and non-governmental organizations on antislavery policy and law and is the author of Bonded Labor: Tackling the System of Slavery in South Asia (Columbia, 2012).

A disturbing and illuminating study of one of the underbellies of economic globalization: the global sex trafficking industry. Irish Times An eloquent, campaigning book that addresses an evil that belittles our humanity. Financial Times Sex trafficking is more of a problem than most people realize. Read this well-written book and find out. -- Kirk Douglas The best book ever written on human trafficking for sexual exploitation. Representing a new period of solid yet humane scholarship, this breakthrough analysis represents a quantum leap in the study of this subject. Simply beyond anything I have seen anywhere. -- Kevin Bales, president of Free the Slaves Siddharth Kara possesses that rare and valuable combination of passion for his subject, insight, and rigorous research. His analysis is persuasive and his descriptions heartbreaking in their clarity. Human trafficking in all forms is slavery, no matter how you cut it, and in this book Kara brings a modern-day scourge to the light of day. -- Erica Stone, president, American Himalayan Foundation

• Preface Preface Acknowledgments 1. Sex Trafficking: An Overview 2. India and Nepal 3. Italy and Western Europe 4. Moldova and the Former Soviet Union 5. Albania and the Balkans 6. Thailand and the Mekong Subregion 7. The United States 8. A Framework for Abolition: Risk and Demand Appendix A: Selected Tables and Notes Appendix B: Contemporary Slavery Economics Appendix C: Selected Human Development Statistics Notes Works Cited Index