Name: Slavery Inc.: The Untold Story of International Sex Trafficking
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Author: Cacho, Lydia ; Boburg, Elizabeth
ISBN: 9781846274220

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Slavery Inc.: The Untold Story of International Sex Trafficking

Type

Physical Book

Author

Lydia Cacho

Translated by

Elizabeth Boburg

Publisher

Granta Books

Year

2013

Language

English

Pages

320

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.8 x 13.0 x 1.8 cm

Weight

0.18 kg.

ISBN13

9781846274220

Synopsis "Slavery Inc.: The Untold Story of International Sex Trafficking"

Illegal, inhuman, and impervious to recession, there is one trade that continues to thrive, just out of sight. The international sex trade criss-crosses the entire globe, a sinister network made up of criminal masterminds, local handlers, corrupt policemen, wilfully blind politicians, eager consumers, and countless exploited women and children. In this ground-breaking work of investigative reporting, the celebrated journalist Lydia Cacho follows the trail of the traffickers and their victims from Mexico to Turkey, Thailand to Iraq, Georgia to the UK, to expose the trade's hidden links with the tourist industry, internet pornography, drugs and arms smuggling, the selling of body organs, money laundering, and even terrorism. Shocking and sobering, Slavery Inc. is an exceptional book, both for the colossal scope of its enquiry, and for the tenacious bravery with which Cacho pursues the truth.

Lydia Cacho

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Lydia María Cacho Ribeiro (1963, Mexico City) is a renowned Mexican journalist, writer, and activist, specialized in investigating human trafficking, child abuse, and corruption. Since 1986, she has lived in Cancún, Quintana Roo, where she has promoted the foundation of the Comprehensive Care Center for Women and the National Network of Shelters for Women Victims of Violence.
Her most notable work, the book The Demons of Eden (2005), exposed a child exploitation network linked to high-level businessmen and politicians. As a result of this publication, Cacho was arbitrarily arrested, kidnapped, and tortured in 2005 by security forces of the State of Mexico, leading to a landmark case before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and a public apology from the Mexican state in 2019.

Lydia Cacho has been an advisor to the Oasis Foundation, the University of the Caribbean, and a consultant for the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM). She is also the author of more than a dozen books translated into several languages, including Memoirs of an Infamy, Slaves of Power, and Letters of Love and Rebellion. She has received numerous international awards, including the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize, the Olof Palme Prize, the Harold Pinter Prize, and the National Don Sergio Méndez Arceo Prize for the Defense of Human Rights. Her journalistic and activist work has been recognized as a benchmark in the defense of human rights and the fight against impunity.

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