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Siddharth Kara


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SIDDHARTH KARA is an author, researcher, and activist on modern slavery. He is a British Academy Global Professor and an Associate Professor of Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery at Nottingham University. Kara has authored three books on modern slavery and won the Frederick Douglass Book Prize. Kara's first book was adapted into a Hollywood film, Trafficked. A feature film inspired by Cobalt Red is currently in pre-production. He divides his time between the UK and the US. ...more

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Cobalt Red: How the Blood o...

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Sex Trafficking: Inside the...

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Modern Slavery: A Global Pe...

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“Our daily lives are powered by a human and environmental catastrophe in the Congo.”
Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

“Now you understand how people like us work?”
“I believe so.”
“Tell me.”
“You work in horrible conditions and—”
“No! We work in our graves.”
Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

“               The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. —Franklin D. Roosevelt, second inaugural address, 1937”
Siddharth Kara, Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery

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