Slavery Defined -- How Many Slaves? -- The Nature of Contemporary Slavery -- How Slavery Changed into Its Modern Form -- Old and New Slavery Compared -- The Question of Race -- The Forms of Contemporary Slavery -- Examples of Contemporary Slavery -- Lives up in Smoke -- Slavery in the City of Lights -- Slavery and Globalization -- Who Is Responsible for Global Slavery? -- The Role of the State and the United Nations: International Law and Slavery -- Trafficking in People -- Groups and Strategies Working against Slavery -- Examples at the International Level -- Examples at the National and Regional Level -- Examples at the Local Level -- Liberation and Rehabilitation -- What Can We Do? -- Facts and Documents -- Facts and Figures -- The Slavery Index -- The Spread of Slavery -- Key International Laws and Conventions on Slavery -- Slavery Convention of the League of Nations (1926) -- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) -- Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery (1956) -- Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) (Excerpts) -- ILO Convention Concerning the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour (1999) (Excerpts) -- Reports, Evidence, and Testimony about the Different Types of Slavery -- Bonded Labor -- Contract Slavery -- Chattel Slavery -- War Slavery -- Slavery Linked to Religious Practice -- Forced Labor -- Commercial Sexual Slavery and Trafficking of People -- Domestic Slavery.