Around 210 million children are still in slavery today. This groundbreaking book shows why they remain locked in slavery, the ways in which they are exploited and how they can be emancipated. It also reminds us that all consumers are implicated in modern childhood slavery.

Contents: Introduction: child slavery in a global context ~ Gary Craig; Part one: strategic issues in child slavery: Child slavery worldwide ~ Hans van de Glind, Simon Steyne and Joost Kooijmans; The nature of child exploitation ~ Aarti Kapoor; Child slavery: constructing the international legal framework ~ Trevor Buck and Andra Nicholson; ILO Convention 182 on the worst forms of child labour (1999): a snapshot review from actors in the field ~ Catherine Turner and Aidan McQuade; Trafficking in a global context ~ Hans van de Glind; Child trafficking in the UK: definitions and discourses ~ Maureen Taylor; Child rights, culture and exploitation: learning from UK experiences of child trafficking ~ Farrah Bokhari and Emma Kelly; Child domestic workers: a global problem ~ Jonathan Blagbrough; Part two: Child slavery: local experiences - case studies of child slavery in practice: The role of education in preventing the trafficking of children for forced and bonded labour in India ~ Jason Aliperti and Patricia Aliperti; Child soldiers: narratives of resistance and coercion ~ Lorena Arocha; Encouraging children to resist recruitment as child soldiers: the role of theatre: experience from Uganda ~ Bill Brookman; Illegal child migrants ~ Brenda Oude Breuil; Birth registration: a tool for prevention, protection and prosecution in the context of child slavery ~ Clare Cody; Child slavery in South East Asia ~ Cecilia Flores-Oebanda; Irregular circulation of children and trafficking through formal adoption ~ Esben Leifen; Child domestic labour: fostering in transition? ~ Evelyn Omoike; Child slavery in Central America ~ Virginia Murillo-Herrera; Addressing the root causes of exploitation: a human rights approach to preventing sex trafficking of children ~ Jonathan Todres; The situation and context of sex trafficking in Nepal ~ Padam Simkhada; Extreme forms of child labour in Turkey ~ Serdar M. Degirmencioglu.