Disposable People: Contemporary Global Slavery

A Hayward Touring exhibition in collaboration with
Autograph ABP and Magnum Photos.

Dates: 27 September - 9 November 2008.

Location: Royal Festival Hall, The Clore Ballroom, London

'Slavery in the contemporary world is what it has been since the beginning of human history – the complete control of one person by another. Violence is at the heart of that control, and the aim is profit.'

Kevin Bales, President of Free the Slaves

Today, over 200 years after the abolition of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, an estimated 27 million people worldwide are still locked into slavery and servitude across the globe. This major new photography exhibition, organised by Hayward Touring in collaboration with the photographic agencies Autograph ABP and Magnum Photos will take an in-depth look at the prevalence of slavery and injustice in the 21st century through the lenses of eight internationally acclaimed documentary photographers. The exhibition begins at the Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre and will be toured to venues across the UK. For more information please visit www.autograph-abp.co.uk

Posted in: Conferences & Events.

Children and Society Journal

The latest volume of the Journal entitled Children and Society has just been released and this is a special volume dedicated to children and slavery:

Volume 22, Issue 3 is now available online - SPECIAL ISSUE: Child Slavery Worldwide.
Guest Edited by Gary Craig

This special issue of Children and Society is a contribution to understanding the scope and size of child slavery, to help those making or enforcing policy or responding to the victims of slavery to be able to understand the nature of child slavery and, hopefully, to combat it. To read more, please click on the article titles below.

Contents: EDITORIAL: Editorial Introduction Gary Craig Modern-Day Child Slavery Hans van de Glind and Joost Kooijmans ‘International Criminalisation and Child Welfare Protection’: the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child Trevor Buck Child Domestic Labour: A Modern Form of Slavery Jonathan Blagbrough Extreme Forms of Child Labour in Turkey Serdar M. Degirmencioglu, Hakan Acar and Yüksel Baykara Acar Falling Through the Gaps: Safeguarding Children Trafficked into the UK Farrah Bokhari Child Trafficking and Formalization: The Case of International Adoption from Ecuador Esben Leifsen ‘Precious Children in a Heartless World’? The Complexities of Child Trafficking in Marseille Brenda Carina Oude Breuil Life Histories and Survival Strategies Amongst Sexually Trafficked Girls in Nepal Padam Simkha

More Themed and Special Issues from Children & Society:


Special Issue: Asylum Seeking and Refugee Children: Local and Global Perspectives
Volume 21, Issue 4, July 2007
Guest Editors: Jo Boyden & Jason Hart

Special Issue: Gender and Ethnicity in Children's Everyday Lives
Volume 20, Issue 2, April 2006
Guest Editors: Virginia Morrow & Paul Connolly

Posted in: Periodicals.

Recovered Histories Website Launch

On 23 August, International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade

and its Abolition, Anti-Slavery International launches its newest

website. Recovered Histories <http://www.recoveredhistories.org/> provides

insight into the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the struggle between

those seeking to maintain the trade and those fighting for its

abolition.

The website contains over 40,000 digitised pages of literature on the

slave trade, Recovered Histories: Reawakening the narratives of

enslavement, resistance and the fight for freedom, makes Anti-Slavery

International's collection of literature on the Transatlantic Slave

Trade widely available on the internet for the first time.

The website chronicles enslavement as an institution and an enforced way

of life; the Middle Passage; and triangular trade. Included are

arguments condemning and supporting the slave trade, evidence gathered

to present to Parliament in the 18th and 19th centuries, illustrations

of life on the plantations, and details of slave uprisings in the

Caribbean and the attempts by many enslaved Africans to liberate

themselves and determine their own futures.