The following list of resources is by no means comprehensive, but one which the author of these pages found useful for the research carried out for this project. Many of the websites listed here have a range of publications which would be useful for further reading.
Books
Christien Van Den Anker (ed.), The Political Economy of New Slavery, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
Kevin Bales, Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy, University of California Press, 2004.
Kevin Bales, Ending Slavery: How We Free Today's Slaves, University of California Press, 2007.
Rahila Gupta, Enslaved: The New British Slavery. New edition, London: Portobello Books, 2008.
Gilbert King, Woman, Child for Sale: The New Slave Trade in the 21st Century, Chamberlain Bros, 2005.
Victor Malarek, The Natashas: The New Global Sex Trade, London: Vision paperbacks, 2004.
Craig McGill, Human Traffic: Sex Slaves and Immigration, London: Vision paperbacks, 2003.
Reports
Gary Craig et al. Contemporary slavery in the UK: Overview and key issues. Joseph Rowntree Trust, 2007.
http://www.jrf.org.uk/bookshop/eBooks/2016-contemporary-slavery-UK.pdf
UKHTC, UK Action Plan on Human Trafficking, 23rd March 2007
U.S. Department of State, Trafficking in Persons Report. Washington, D.C., 2004.
Available to download from:
http://antislavery.eserver.org/contemporary/trafficking_in_persons_2004.pdf/view
Joint Committee on Human Rights, Human Trafficking, 26th report of session 2005-06.
Available to download from:
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/jt200506/jtselect/jtrights/245/245.pdf
Klára Skrivánková, Forced Labour UK Country report, London: Anti-Slavery International, 2006.
Websites
www.afruca.org
Promotes the welfare of African children in the UK
http://www.amnesty.org.uk
www.antislavery.org
www.asylumaid.org.uk
Charity providing advice and legal representation to asylum-seekers and refugees
www.catwinternational.org
Coalition against trafficking in women, an NGO devoted to the campaign against sex trafficking
www.eaves4women.co.uk/POPPY_Project/POPPY_Project.php
NGO which provides accommodation and support to trafficked women
www.freetheslaves.net
www.iom.int
For information on international migration
www.kalayaan.org.uk
NGO working with Migrant Domestic Workers
Articles
Madeleine Bunting, ‘Incredibly, we are about to legalise modern domestic slavery again’, The Guardian, 26 March 2007
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/mar/26/comment.politics
Ros Coward, ‘Slaves in Soho: Violent Gangs Have Taken Over the UK Sex Trade’, The Guardian, 25 March 2007.
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/mar/26/humanrights.comment
Rahila Gupta, ‘Sweatshop till you drop’, The Guardian, 05 September 2006.
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2006/sep/05/comment.fairtrade
Nicholas Hildyard, ‘How UK foreign investment creates refugees and asylum seekers'.
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/mar/26/humanrights.comment
Paul Lewis, ‘500 Children Face Forcible Repatriation’, The Guardian, 18 August 2006.
www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2006/aug/18/immigration.immigrationandpublicservices
Xan Rice, ‘Smugglers push Yemen migrants into sea and leave 107 to drown’, The Guardian, 17 February 2007
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/feb/17/international.mainsection
Yvonne Roberts, ‘Raped, beaten and helpless: UK's sex slaves’, The Observer, 02 April 2006
www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2006/apr/02/ukcrime.humantrafficking
Mark Townsend, “'Sex slaves' win cash in landmark legal deal,” The Observer, 16 December 2007.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2007/dec/16/immigration.ukcrime
Mark Townsend, ‘Slavery returns to Britain on large scale’, The Guardian, 26 February 2007
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2007/feb/26/socialexclusion.immigrationasylumandrefugees
Legislation
Texts of the following Acts are available in the Parliamentary archives: 1807 Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1824 Slave Trade Act, and 1873 Slave Trade Act. The full text of the 1833 Abolition of Slavery Act can be found at:
http://www.pdavis.nl/Legis_07.htm
Text of Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery to be found on the website of Office of the United Nations High commissioner for Human Rights:
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/slavetrade.htm
Text of Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings available from:
http://www.coe.int/t/dg2/trafficking/campaign/Source/PDF_Conv_197_Trafficking_E.pdf
The United Nations Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, 2001 defines trafficking as “the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation. Exploitation shall include, at a minimum, the exploitation of the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labour or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery or servitude or the removal of organs.” Full text to be found at:
http://www.uncjin.org/Documents/Conventions/dcatoc/final_documents_2/convention_%20traff_eng.pdf
Images
Map of World Slavery 2007, The Guardian, 23 March 2007 available at:
Panos exhibition ‘Slave Britain: the 21st Century Trade in Human Lives’, at St Paul Cathedral, 21 February – 1 April 2007
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TV Documentaries and Films
Britain's Streets of Slavery, four part-documentary broadcast from 27-30 March 2007, BBC One.
Further information available at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/4810562.stm
It's a Free World, Director Ken Loach, 2007