Writer, researcher, screenwriter, and activist against modern slavery. He is a global professor at the British Academy, visiting scientist at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard, associate professor of Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery at the University of Nottingham, and part of the Rights Lab’s Measurement and Geographies Programme. He is the author of three books on modern slavery: Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery (2009); Bonded Labor: Tackling the System of Slavery in South Asia (2012); and Modern Slavery: A Global Perspective (2017). Kara adapted his first book into a Hollywood movie, Trafficked, and is the author of the reports: Tainted Carpets: Slavery and Child Labor in India’s Hand-Made Carpet Sector (Harvard, 2014), and Tainted Garments: The Exploitation of Women and Girls in India’s Home-Based Garment Sector (UC Berkeley, 2019). Over twenty-one years of research, traveling to more than fifty countries, he has mapped the global networks of human trafficking, explored the dangerous underworld of sex slaves victims of trafficking, and tracked the global supply chains of numerous basic products tainted by slavery and child labor. Kara advises various UN agencies and Governments on policy and legislation against slavery. He has appeared in media such as CNN, BBC, The Guardian, CNBC, or National Geographic.
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