child trafficking

Instead of being sold into Bihar, India's sex trade, fourteen-year-old Heera stays at a local hostel for at-risk girls where she learns, through the practice of martial arts, that her body is a vessel through which she can protect herself and those around her.

Rachel Lloyd discusses how she managed to escape the commercial sex industry and how she has managed to help other women do the same. Lloyd also spotlights the creation of her own nonprofit organization devoted to this purpose and shares the stories of the women and girls she has helped.

In his native Bolivia for an adventure race, Andreo and a friend/fellow adoptee secretly search for their birth parents - and are soon involved with dangerous baby-traffickers.

Presents the stories of five adults who were trafficked as children, providing insights on how American children are taken captive and often coerced to remain in a lifestyle of commercial sexual exploitation.

Five teenagers struggle to find their way out of prostitution.

"Just as sixteen-year-old Andreo, skilled in death-defying ironman events in wilderness regions, is about to compete in rugged Bolivia, he and his friend Raul (another Bolivian adoptee) begin to suspect that their adoptive parents have unwittingly acquired them illegally. Plotting to use the upcoming race to pursue the truth, they veer on an epic journey to locate Andreo's birth parents, only to find themselves hazardously entangled with a gang of baby traffickers. Never suspecting that attempting to bring down the ring would endanger their very lives, the boys plunge ahead"--OCLC.

Tells the stories of three girls who survived sexual slavery and how they are now working to help others who face the same struggle.

Conor Grennan describes his three-month service at an orphanage in war-torn Nepal, explains his discovery that the children were actually victims of human traffickers, and discusses his efforts to reunite the children with their parents.

Explores the extent to which human trafficking exists in the modern world and outlines the various trafficking and slave systems employed by various cultures and organizations. Examines what is being done to combat human trafficking around the world and includes full-color photographs, a glossary, a timeline, and further reading sources.

The author, a survivor of the commercial sex industry, shares her personal story, and discusses her efforts to help other girls who are victims of sexual exploitation through her nonprofit organization GEMS, Girls Educational and Mentoring Services.