The United States Senate has declared January 11th to be Human Trafficking Awareness Day, and President Obama has declared the month of January to be National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month.
Here are my choices for The Best Resources For Learning About Human Trafficking Today (and are accessible to English Language Learners):
Here’s an accessible interactive map and fact sheet about human slavery around the world.
Is there still slavery today? is from the CBBC Newsround.
Here are three videos:
The Veiled Commodity is a short film that deals with slavery’s past and present day issues. You can also see it here.
There Are More Slaves Today Than at Any Time in Human History is an article that would need to be modified for ELL’s.
Sex Slaves In America is a video from MSNBC.
Human Trafficking In America is a huge series by the Kansas City Star.
Human Trafficking is an online video by The World Bank
Sunitha Krishnan fights sex slavery is a TED Talk. It’s generally not accessible to ELL’s, but portions of it might be usable.
CBS News has several videos on human trafficking.
CNN also has multiple videos on the topic.
Products Of Slavery is an amazing online visualization of products throughout the world created through using child or forced labor. It’s a “near fit” to other sites on this list, so I’m adding it here.
Speak Truth To Power is a project of the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights that includes a curriculum of seventeen lessons. The lessons include ones on genocide and human trafficking. They would have to be modified for English Language Learners, but they look useful. They include videos but, unfortunately, they’re all on YouTube, which make them inaccessible (online, at least) for most students).
The CNN Freedom Project: Ending Modern Day Slavery” is an excellent multimedia resource on human trafficking.
Global Record on Fighting Slavery is a useful color-coded map from CNN.
How Many Slaves Work For You? is an interactive that helps you determine how many slaves were involved in the products you use. It has some similarities to the Products Of Slavery site.
December 2nd is the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery. ESL Holiday Lessons has a lesson for English Language Learners on the day.
Products Of Slavery is an impressive online visualization of products throughout the world created through using child or forced labor.
Fifteen-Year-Old Tackles Slavery is a video from ABC News:
Students Freeing Modern Slaves is a related website.
What Is Modern Slavery? Investigating Human Trafficking is from The New York Times Learning Network.
Slavery’s last stronghold is a slideshow from CNN and Slave master becomes an abolitionist is an accompanying article.
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December 22, 2010 at 11:52 pm
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October 26, 2011 at 5:37 am
While governments, international organizations, and nongovernmental organizations have recognized the importance of collaborating and have established some co-ordination mechanisms and practices, they will need to overcome challenges that have impeded collaboration in the past for their efforts to be successful.
Despite to governmental and non-governmental efforts, there is still a huge need to take a revolutionary step to counter human trafficking issue. Due to its global importance, Ethics 360 has taken a credible step to stop human trafficking around the world by creating an effective database Human traffickers and human smugglers.
FreedomNow.org is the biggest non-profit web portals, which fill not only facilitate governments, law makers, law enforcement agencies, media etc. but also provide relief to general public and specially in providing relief to human trafficking victims. It is designed to condemn all the illegal immigration and illegal immigrants.
December 20, 2011 at 8:21 pm
Thank you for these great resources and your leadership in this area! I am sharing this. Thank you.
December 20, 2011 at 8:48 pm
Check out STOP THE TRAFFIK. It “is a global movement working through individuals, communities and organisations to fight the global sale of people.”http://stopthetraffik.wordpress.com/
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