In conjunction with the US theatrical debut of "Roadkill," the British Council presents an anthology of essays, poetry and photography about efforts to end sex trafficking. For more information about "Roadkill" and related public events, visit http://usa.britishcouncil.org/art/roadkill.

1. CR T ICAL MA SS:
A Colle ction of
Voic es Confront ing
Sex Traff icking

2. About the British Council
The British Council creates international opportunities for the people of the UK and other countries and
builds trust between them worldwide. We are a Royal Charter charity, established as the UK’s international
organisation for educational opportunities and cultural relations. Our 7,000 staff in over 100 countries work with
thousands of professionals and policy makers and millions of young people every year through English, arts,
education and society programmes. We re-energize the transatlantic relationship and partner with US-based
organisations to work on shared agendas worldwide.
A quarter of our funding comes from a UK government grant, and we earn the rest from services which
customers pay for, education and development contracts we bid for, and from partnerships. For more
information, please visit: www.britishcouncil.org/usa. You can also keep in touch with the British Council on
Twitter @usabritish and www.facebook.com/britishcouncilusa.
About Roadkill
In 2010 award-winning actor and theater director Cora Bissett’s critically acclaimed work Roadkill, which
exposes the hidden world of sex trafficking, was the first production in Edinburgh Fringe history to win every
major theater award. As part of the British Council Showcase in 2011, Roadkill again captured the hearts and
minds of audiences from around the world.
In 2013 Roadkill has its US premiere In Chicago and New York presented by Chicago Shakespeare Theater and
St. Ann’s Warehouse, two of America’s leading producers, presenters and commissioners of innovative global
theatrical events.
Roadkill, produced by Pachamama Productions and Richard Jordan Productions in association with Traverse
Theatre, is based on a real-life encounter with a young woman from Benin City, Nigeria, who has been trafficked
to Scotland. Staged in a seemingly average apartment, the site-specific nature of the work places the audience
in the young woman’s world to witness at close quarters how her hopes of a new life are turned into violent
scenes of rape, brutality and captivity in the sleazy world of sex trafficking. Together with strong writing and
excellent performances from the cast, this groundbreaking production is a deeply affecting work which takes
even the most seasoned theater goers on an insightful journey beyond their comfort zones.
CREATIVE TEAM | Directed by Cora Bissett | Text by Stef Smith | Assistant Director/Sound Artist, Harry Wilson
| Designed by Jess Brettle | Digital Media Artist, Kim Beveridge | Animation Artist, Marta Mackova | Lighting
Design by Paul Sorley | CAST | Mercy Ojelade, Adura Onashile, John Kazek
Pictured above: Mercy Ojelade | All photos by Tim Morozzo
ABOUT THIS PUBLICATION
The British Council highlights the best of UK culture in a spirit of cultural exchange, so we are delighted to
organize and support a public program to engage wider and diverse audiences to examine the issues of
human and sex trafficking. Viewing these problems through a cultural relations lens underscores the complex
causes at their roots, such as globalization and cultural beliefs, and the collective solutions they require, such
as education and capacity building from all the societies involved. The arts are an ideal vehicle for dialogue,
and this publication of essays, poetry, interviews and portraits commissioned from or submitted by leading
advocates, academics, artists and survivors helps to contextualize the performance and broaden audiences’
understanding of and public engagement with the issues of human and sex trafficking dramatized in Roadkill.
Join the conversation as it unfolds on the Roadkill Forum:
http://usa.britishcouncil.org/art/roadkill. Follow us on
Twitter (@usaBritish and #Roadkill13) and Tumblr (#Roadkill13)

3. Contents
2 Introduction: Paul Smith and Cora Bissett
5 Foreword: Baroness Goudie
6 A Critical Review of Roadkill: Lyn Gardner, The Guardian
8 5 Things to Know About Human Trafficking:
Amanda Kloer, Change.Org with CNN Freedom Project
10 Stolen Voices: Bidisha
16 Restoring Confidence, Envisioning the Future:
British Council in collaboration with Restore NYC
20 Interview: Siddharth Kara, Harvard Kennedy School
22 CAASE: Ending Harm, Demanding Change in Chicago
and Beyond: Rachel Durchslag
24 Five Ways to Stop Human Trafficking and Sexual
Exploitation: Rachel Durchslag
25 A Path to Service: Jessica Minhas, The Blind Project
28 Measure Your Slavery Footprint
30 Spotlight: Winner of the Challenge Slavery Tech Contest
32 Fus Ro Dah: Sarita, Sex Trafficking Survivor
Conten ts

4. 2
INTRODUCTION
Paul Smith is the British Council Director USA
The British Council, around the world and here in the United States,
engages strongly with civil society and community leaders, with
decision makers and opinion formers and, above all, with young
people to encourage them in social enterprise and in contributing to
resolving issues of global importance. One way in which we do this is
by championing powerful arts productions from the UK that depict and explore the ravages
of human crisis and critical aspects of cultural identity.
Roadkill is a site-specific production that deeply immerses its audiences in the tragic
narrative it unfolds. As such, Roadkill’s innovative form and compelling content make this
appropriately the latest in our series of dramatic British productions which have recently
toured the USA. These have included powerful and challenging productions exploring
the complex repercussions of conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan, such as Black Watch from
Edinburgh and The Great Game: Afghanistan from London, which were well-received by
American audiences.
Art has the power to transform perceptions, assumptions and attitudes and to build the will
for responsible action. Roadkill causes its audiences to experience the horrors endured by
millions of people—particularly women and children—who are trafficked for the purpose
of sexual exploitation. It breaks the heart and compels determination for action. The 17th
-
century writer and historian Thomas Fuller wrote “If it were not for hopes, the heart would
break;” Roadkill is a story that hangs on hope.
The British Council is on the ground in over 100 countries, many of which are affected
by the pressing issue of human trafficking. This anthology, which reveals perspectives
from survivors and advocates, helps tell the stories of real characters who, every day,
experience this terrible reality. It is our hope that this US tour of Roadkill, and the public
events that accompany it, will create a legacy of understanding, concern and commitment.
Pictured Mercy Ojelade and Adura Onashile
INTR ODUC TI ON
PAUL SM ITH

5. 3
Cora Bissett is an Actor, a Director, and is the Artistic Director of
Pachamama Productions
Photo by Stephanie Gibson
Roadkill began as an idea way back in 2009 when I came into contact
with a young woman who had been trafficked from Africa to Scotland for
the purposes of sexual exploitation, by an older woman.
She stayed with me for a short while. Trafficking was an issue I knew a fair bit about, having
kept abreast of a series of articles which had appeared in The Scottish press in recent
years. But when a young woman quite literally lands on your doorstep, and wakens you
with her screams in the night, Trafficking ceases to be an ‘issue’ and becomes about an
individual, and in this case for me, a friend, someone sharing my home. I wanted to let
people know what was going on right now in our city. I wanted somehow to give people the
experience I had had of coming into such alarmingly close contact with this world which
exists quite literally on our doorstep, and that is how I settled upon the idea of putting the
play into a flat and transporting the audience there.
The writer Stef Smith and I researched many similar stories and case studies and even
travelled to Italy where many Nigerian women are trafficked, and we interviewed people
who had escaped traffickers. From this array of stories, we created our script. And so
‘Roadkill’ became an amalgamation of many women’s stories but sparked by that very
first meeting with one.
By taking the audience to a location they did not know, and keeping them in a small
flat, they too were disorientated and trapped in a space, in the girl’s world for the duration
of the piece. We shared the journey with her, rather than watch it comfortably from afar. We
were in her world, and the impact of that was unprecedented.
Roadkill made newspaper headlines, and trafficking was being discussed on TV
shows, arts shows, and mainstream radio programmes. The profile it was raising was
unprecedented. People could not believe this was happening in Scotland, right here,
right now.
We gave the audience sheets at the end of each show with information on organisations
they could contact should they like to donate, support, campaign, or take direct action. The
Scottish Refugee Council was one of these places, and I was reliably informed that they
had been inundated with calls and emails from audience members who wanted to help.
Who wanted change. This was the power of being engaged in that story.
Roadkill’s journey, like the journeys of countless thousands of girls around the globe is far
from over. We have played in Paris, London, Glasgow, Edinburgh and now The U.S. Rather
sadly, the story is as pertinent and current in every city around the world as it was when it
first emerged that summer in Edinburgh. I hope that the spotlight it brought to bear in other
countries, can serve to do the same here in the U.S. and that in partnership with all the
organisations who are working so hard to eradicate this most awful of human rights abuses,
we can focus on ways to inform, affect and activate our societies.
COR A BI SSET T

7. 5
FOREWORD
Baroness Goudie is a senior member of the British House of Lords
and global advocate for the rights of women and children. She is on the
board of Vital Voices, is involved in promoting gender equity with both
the G8 and G20 and is also the Chair of the Women Leaders’ Council to
Fight Human Trafficking at the United Nations.
I became involved in human trafficking in the year 2000 when I attended
a meeting at the United Nations with Ambassador Melanne Veveer and Winch Yu, who
at the time were Director of Human Trafficking and Human Rights at Vital Voices. At this
meeting, my eyes were opened to the extent of human trafficking, the damage that is done
to human beings and the amount of money generated from these crimes. I then became a
member of the Executive and Board of Vital Voices Global Partnership.
Vital Voices is committed to fighting human trafficking around the world. The UN continues
to battle human trafficking under their Department of UNODC, which covers serious crimes,
drugs, and human trafficking.
As a member of The House of Lords, I have lobbied the British government’s efforts on
human trafficking. Both the Palermo Convention and the EU Directive on Trafficking have
subsequently strengthened awareness and include cross border prosecutions. Human
trafficking is the trade of human beings for the purpose of sexual slavery or forced labor.
Currently there are 21 million people forced into labor around the world including forced
sexual exploitation. Of that number, 5.5 million are children. Potential victims have been
identified in over 90 countries.
As the UK’s cultural relations organization, the British Council touches the lives of tens of
millions of people around the world each year with its arts programming by supporting
projects that facilitate public engagement with and dialogue around important international
issues such as social change, cultural identity and conflict and in the case of Roadkill,
human trafficking. The human trafficking issue affects every country. Vital Voices has an
excellent toolkit available for download on the Internet, which will reach broader audiences
globally.
The timing is crucial as we are in an economic downturn, and it is easy for families to be
persuaded to sell their children, for women to be conned into domestic servitude and sex
parlors, and for men to be taken and forced into labor in construction and fishing industries.
Sex trafficking is not just about young women and girls, but it is also about boys and young
men. There are 5.5 million children exploited around the world. This is a huge human
rights and healthcare issue. Those that are trafficked do not live long lives. It is critical for
awareness to be raised at an inter-country level; at meetings such as the G8 and the G20.
The United Kingdom and the United States are working diligently to have human rights
issue on the agenda. Every individual must lobby their governments both locally and
nationally to fight for the eradication of human trafficking, because it will not go away by
itself. The amount of money being made is in the billions. Trafficking is the second biggest
organized crime, the first being arms, followed by trafficking, then drugs. A human being
can be used more than once. It is time to put an end to this crime.
F OREW ORD

8. 6
A CRITICAL REVIEW OF ROADKILL
Lyn Gardner has been going to the theatre regularly since early infancy. She studied
Drama and English at Kent University. She was a founder member of the City Limits
cooperative where she edited the theatre section, before joining the Guardian.
Preface
It’s almost three years since I first saw Roadkill, but if anything it is more vivid in my mind
than when I first saw it. So it should be. There are nights when I walk home though my part
of London and look at the shrouded windows of houses and flats and wonder if there is a
Mary behind those curtained windows enduring appalling abuse.
Sex trafficking is a growing international problem and one that most of us think has nothing
to do with us. But no doubt many ordinary people said that about another kind of slavery in
the 18th
and 19th
centuries. But it does have something to do with us, and one of the great
strengths of Roadkill is that it reminds us that it does. It refuses to let us off the hook. Its
very form—which places the audience in the role of voyeurs who sit passively and watch
as terrible things unfold in front of us—reminds that we are all complicit in a system which
sees human beings merely as a commodity to be bought and traded.
More than that, Cora Bissett’s uncompromising production makes us look hard and not
look away at something we might prefer not to know about or pretend doesn’t happen. If
Roadkill was performed in a theatre, it would be too easy to dismiss as a piece of fiction.
We would be shocked while watching but when we left the theatre we would leave it there
as we headed back to our comfortable lives. But its intimacy, form and site-specific nature
ensure that we cannot just leave it behind.
It is of course a piece of fiction, but one that is based on a reality that many young women
like Mary are enduring every day. But it is more than that: it is a call to arms, an invitation
to act and campaign, and most of all a reminder that if we simply turn a blind eye and
refuse to look at the problem full on, nothing will change and we are failing all the Marys,
everywhere.
A CRITI CAL
RE VIEW
6

9. 7
The young black girl in the white dress
sitting a few seats away from me on the
bus laid on by the Traverse theatre is
little more than a child. She is chattering
excitedly about the sights she sees to her
“auntie”, a flashily dressed young woman,
and to anyone who will listen. She has
never seen buildings like this in Nigeria.
Her enthusiasm bubbles over.
A few minutes later, in Cora Bissett’s
off-site production, now in a dingy flat
off Leith Walk, we see the same young
woman again. Now her white dress is
torn and bloody; she shakes. The lamb
has been sacrificed on the altar of the
profitable sex trade. In the space of just a
few minutes, she has lost her virginity, her
innocence, her passport, her past and
her future. Over the next hour, we watch
like ghostly voyeurs as Mary’s life turns
into hell on earth, and she is manipulated
by Martha, the auntie she thought would
protect her.
It’s a familiar tale, and one that is being
told elsewhere on the Fringe. But in this
uncompromising production, it’s up close
and personal. It doesn’t feel as if this is
just a play. Just as Mary cannot escape
from the shuttered basement room where
men inflict appalling violence on her body
and then review her performance on the
internet as if they’re assessing a hotel or
Roadkill
Lyn Gardner, The Guardian, Thursday 12, August 2010 (reprinted with permission)
This is a critical review of the production Roadkill from 2010, the year the show won
Amnesty International’s “Freedom of Expression” Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
meal, so Bissett ensures that we cannot
escape the appalling truth of Mary’s life,
and all the trafficked young women like
her. The only way to escape is to shut
your eyes, to pretend it isn’t happening.
None of us in the room can quite meet
each other’s eye.
This is by no means a perfect production,
but it is an almightily powerful one.
There is some cunning use of video to
conjure both real demons and those of
the mind, and a soundscape that offers
distant children’s voices, and a snatch
of Strange Fruit. There are remarkable
performances, too, from Mercy Ojelade as
a Mary you want to cradle in your arms,
Adura Onashile as the damaged and
manipulative Martha, and John Kazek as
a series of men who abuse or fail Mary.
Taking the show out of the theatre is
more than a mere gimmick, though it
does also raise uncomfortable questions
about theatre’s and the audience’s
responsibilities. Are we simply staring at
the animals in the zoo, or will we actually
act after seeing the show; file it away
under “interesting experience” or do
something? The power of the piece is that
you cannot forget the laughing girl in the
white dress; nor should you. She’s out
there somewhere running for her life.

10. 8
5 THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT HUMAN TRAFFICKING
Special to CNN (reprinted with permission)
Amanda Kloer is an editor with Change.org, where
she organizes and promotes campaigns to end
human trafficking. She has created numerous reports,
documentaries and training materials on human trafficking
in the United States and around the world.
Human trafficking might not be something we think about on a daily basis, but this crime
affects the communities where we live, the products which we buy and the people who
we care about. Want to learn more? Here are the five most important things to know about
human trafficking:
1. Human trafficking is slavery.
Human trafficking is modern-day slavery. It involves one person controlling another and
exploiting him or her for work. Like historical slavery, human trafficking is a business that
generates billions of dollars a year. But unlike historical slavery, human trafficking is not
legal anywhere in the world. Instead of being held by law, victims are trapped physically,
psychologically, financially or emotionally by their traffickers.
2. It’s happening where you live.
Stories about human trafficking are often set in far-away places, like cities in Cambodia,
small towns in Moldova, or rural parts of Brazil. But human trafficking happens in cities and
towns all over the world, including in the United States. Enslaved farmworkers have been
found harvesting tomatoes in Florida and picking strawberries in California. Young girls
have been forced into prostitution in Toledo, Atlanta, Wichita, Los Angeles, and other cities
and towns across America. Women have been enslaved as domestic workers in homes
in Maryland and New York. And human trafficking victims have been found working in
restaurants, hotels, nail salons, and shops in small towns and booming cities. Wherever you
live, chances are some form of human trafficking has taken place there.
5 THIN GS
TO KNOW

11. 9
3. It’s happening to people just like you.
Human trafficking doesn’t discriminate on the basis of race, age, gender, or religion.
Anyone can be a victim. Most of the human trafficking victims in the world are female
and under 18, but men and older adults can be trafficking victims too. While poverty,
lack of education, and belonging to a marginalized group are all factors that increase
risk of trafficking, victims of modern-day slavery have included children from middle-
class families, women with college degrees, and people from dominant religious or ethnic
groups.
4. Products you eat, wear, and use every day may have been made
by human trafficking victims.
Human trafficking isn’t just in your town—it’s in your home, since human trafficking victims
are forced to make many of the products we use everyday, according to ProductsofSlavery.
org. If your kitchen is stocked with rice, chocolate, fresh produce, fish, or coffee, those
edibles might have been harvested by trafficking victims. If you’re wearing gold jewelry,
athletic shoes, or cotton underwear, you might be wearing something made by slaves.
And if your home contains a rug, a soccer ball, fresh flowers, a cell phone, or Christmas
decorations, then slavery is quite possibly in your house. Human trafficking in the
production of consumer goods is so widespread, most people in America have worn,
touched, or consumed a product of slavery at some point.
5. We can stop human trafficking in our lifetime.
The good news is not only that we can end human trafficking around the world, we can end
it within a generation. But to achieve that goal, everyone needs to work together. Already,
activists around the world are launching and winning campaigns to hold governments and
companies accountable for human trafficking, create better laws, and prevent trafficking
in their communities. You can start a campaign on Change.org to fight trafficking in your
community. You can also fight trafficking by buying from companies that have transparent
and slave-free supply chains, volunteering for or donating to organizations fighting
trafficking, and talking to your friends and family about the issue. Together, we can fight
human trafficking … and win.

12. 10
STOLEN VOICES, BY BIDISHA
Bidisha is a writer, columnist, critic and BBC radio and TV broadcaster. She specialises
in the arts and culture, social justice issues and international affairs and is the author of
two novels, an Italian travelogue and a Middle Eastern reportage. She writes regularly for
the broadsheets in the UK and internationally and has judged numerous literary prizes
including the Orange Prize, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Comment Awards and the
Polari Prize. Her fifth book, about asylum seekers and refugees, will be out in May 2014.
She has just been made a trustee of the Booker Prize Foundation. She is currently writing
her sixth book, a novel called Transformation Play, and doing outreach work in prisons.
STOL EN VOIC ES
They told
me they’d go
back to my
country and
kill my
family.
“

13. 11
“The police didn’t believe that
the trafficker had raped me. He
told them he was my boyfriend
and they believed him. And then
they accused me of being a
trafficker because they said
another woman [who had been
trafficked]hadtoldthemIwas.”
STOL N VOIC ES

14. 12
“He raped and trafficked
dozens of women and
they only gave him
two years in prison, of
which he served half.”
“They had [our daughter]
there in a flat and said she was
fifteen, not twelve. We had
to drive around looking for
her and they blocked off the
road with their cars so we
couldn’t drive down in. When
we told the men we’d call
the police they went around
the neighbourhood putting
up pictures of her, with her
phone number, and we got
hundreds of calls from men
wanting her services. When
we told the police they told
us she’d gone with the men
through her own choice.”
“The police put me in prison for six months
for being here illegally when it was me who
was kidnapped, trafficked and raped.”
STOL N V IC S
“I pitched a TV series about trafficking, based on
my experiences working with trafficked women,
and the executives didn’t commission it because
they said trafficking didn’t exist.”
“The journalist
asked me, ‘Were
you frightened
when you were
raped and
tortured? Were
you frightened?’
A very famous,
well-respected
journalist. I had
to explain to him,
gently, that’s not
what you say to
a woman who’s a
survivor. Not in that
tone—wanting to
be titillated by the
answer and enjoy
the woman’s pain.
That is not the way
to ask a question.”

15. 13
These quotes have haunted me for several years. They are from women who have been
trafficked, women who help survivors of trafficking and those who investigate, research
and challenge trafficking all over the world. At the events at which these women speak, we
have to be very careful: we protect identities, use pseudonyms, ban photographs and film
footage in case the traffickers extract revenge, come and find the women, sabotage the
investigations in the most brutal, violent and thuggish ways. What I have learnt from these
powerful, distressing meetings and from unforgettable plays like Cora Bissett’s Roadkill, is
that trafficking, like all abuses of women, is common, not rare; accepted, not underground
or taboo; international, not local; systematic, not exceptional; organised, not ad hoc.
Trafficking, like all sex abuse, is mainstream.
In 2009 the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime concluded that 79% of trafficking is
for sexual exploitation. The report covers 155 countries.
To traffic women is to be part of a vast, complex and well-factored international crime
process which turns women into commodities and trades them, against their will, consent,
dignity and knowledge, just like drugs, dirty money, weapons and contraband goods
are traded. This is done with the full knowledge and sometimes with the collusion of non-
criminal organisations and networks including the police, politicians and local businesses.
Trafficking involves extreme coercion (sometimes by older women offering younger women
domestic or secretarial work abroad); grooming, intimidation and pressure; outright
kidnapping; detention and deception; removal by force within or across countries; repeated
severe beating, gang rape and other torture to break a woman mentally and physically; the
loss of all markers of humanity including a woman’s name, clothes, language, money and
personal items; sale, trade and rape between gangs of pimping men; being held hostage
in a room or house or brothel, often in a completely alien country whose name or language
they may well not know; the (realistic and true) threat of torture and murder if a woman tries
to escape; and then usage, which is nothing more than rape, for weeks and months and
years, by johns, punters, users, exploiters and other ‘ordinary guys’ who think it’s okay to
rent and use a woman’s body for their own momentary gratification.
“I was interviewing women
who’d been trafficked. The
TV was on and there was a
famous telly chef on screen.
The women freaked out
because he was a client. In his
public life he’s a patron of a
domestic violence charity.”
S OL N IC S

16. 14
I was
visiting
my
boyfriend
and then
some men
came in a
van and
took me
away.
“
OL I S

17. 15
I am not exaggerating any of this and my words are nothing compared to the bodily,
emotional and mental trauma experienced by the hundreds of thousands of girls and
women who experience it. To fully acknowledge the extent and harm of trafficking, we
must face the world’s harshest abuses, deepest hypocrisies and most long-standing
inequalities. We must be ready to confront the ugliest realities, brutal personalities and
violent processes. Pioneering journalist Lydia Cacho’s recent book, Slavery Inc: The Untold
Story of International Sex Trafficking lays out in shocking and moving detail the extent
and depth of this global problem, its endemic features and its interconnection with many
other kinds of international trade. It makes for aggrieving reading, and although there are
countless organisations, like the Poppy Project in the UK and Aapne Aap in India, which
help survivors of trafficking, too many people look away, cannot face reality or minimise its
gravity.
In many ways the ‘untold story’ of trafficking is echoed in the stereotypes and practices of
all the other parts of society. We must be brave and self-critical enough to recognise that
the misogynist values and systems which underpin trafficking are echoed far beyond its
networks. Whenever women are abused, the tendency is to blame, vilify and punish the
victim and excuse the perpetrator. When a perpetrator is punished—for rape, for murder
of a partner, for stalking, for harassment, for abuse—any penalisation enforced by the
courts is markedly lenient. The police, the media, the judiciary, are passive, unenlightened,
and unconcerned. When a woman is exploited for sexual and other labour we talk about
how she ‘chose’ to do it, instead of realising that a choice made in the face of threats of
violence, extreme poverty, blackmail, shame, fear, extreme inequality, is no choice at all.
At the heart of the complexity is something very simple: a woman is a human being and not
an object. The many survivors I have spoken to are the strongest human beings of all.
O S
“An investigative journalist for
[a major UK broadsheet] said
he’d researched trafficking and
learnt that figures of trafficked
women were grossly exaggerated.
We contacted the main charity
which helps trafficked women in
the UK. They said they hadn’t been
contacted by him.”

18. 16
RESTORING CONFIDENCE, ENVISIONING THE FUTURE
Preface
Envisioning the future can be hard, when trying to overcome the past.
In addition to the visible scars that can serve as a reminder of physical
abuse, women who survive sex trafficking often carry invisible emotional
and spiritual scars. Feelings of self-worth and dignity built up through
adolescence can be demolished in seconds and can take a lifetime to
rebuild, and yet somehow survivors find the courage and confidence
to hope for a better life, to imagine themselves as they deserve to be—
healthy and happy.
The British Council was privileged to work with two recent graduates of
Restore NYC’s sex trafficking rehabilitation program. These remarkable
women were treated to a makeover by a team of stylists and a celebrity
photographer to help restore their confidence and inspire them to
pursue their career dreams.
Restorin g
conf iden ce,
envision ing
the futu re

19. 17
wanted to be a hair stylist
when she was a girl, but she
was trafficked from Honduras
to the United States at the age
of 17. She was romanced by a
man who said he loved her but
was in fact part of an organiza-
tion that trafficked vulnerable
girls and women. Before she
came to Restore, she was in a
psychiatric ward before the FBI
asked if Restore could provide
a home and services to her.
She now has a job, has made
great progress learning Eng-
lish, and would like to own a
big restaurant one day.
“A”
Restorin g
conf iden ce,
envision ing
the futu re

20. 18
had dreams of becoming
a veterinarian when she
was younger, but she was
trafficked from Mexico to
New York by a criminal
organization. She always
dreamed of having a big
family and loving husband
and for the first time in many
years thinks that this can
indeed be true for her. She
is not sure exactly what she
wants to do long-term but
is very happy right now with
her job in the food services
industry—and the apartment
she is about to move into.
“L”
Restorin g
conf iden ce,
envision ing
the futu re

21. 19
Restorin g
conf iden ce,
envision ing
the futu re
Jimmy Lee is the Executive Director of Restore NYC
Restore NYC’s mission is to end sex trafficking in New York and restore the well-being and
independence of foreign-national survivors.
Long-term, safe housing is a critical gap in the aftercare of survivors. A late-2011 study by
Hofstra University states that 87% of trafficking victims in New York are in need of long-term
housing but only 4% actually find it.
The Restore safehouses are the only such facilities in the region that provide long-term
housing for foreign-national survivors. Though our plan is that each survivor successfully
transition in 12 months, we do not have a hard-and-fast rule and a number of our safehouse
women have stayed for as long as 15 months. These homes are essential to the healing
and successful future of many survivors. If a survivor is not able to be placed in our
safehouse, she is usually referred to a short-term (60-90 day) shelter focused on victims of
domestic violence. In the worst case scenarios, some survivors actually go back to the only
source of housing that they have known—that provided by their trafficker.
Restore safehouses are designed to build community, foster healing and develop life
skills so that each survivor will transition to a healthy and independent life. In addition to
customized plans to bring healing and hope to each survivor, we provide ESL courses
(both group and individual), yoga and art therapy, professional counseling, GED
preparation, financial literacy training, job-readiness programs, and placement into part-
time jobs with trusted businesses. We also bring in committed volunteers to cook meals or
take survivors out for a movie—to be sisters and family to each safehouse woman. Each
survivor will also have a mentor (“big sister”) that walks alongside her during her time in the
safehouse and after she graduates. This mentor will do everything from accompany her to
appointments, help her with homework, be an informal counselor and friend, and help her
think about her future.
You can learn more about Restore NYC by visiting their website http://restorenyc.org/

22. 20
Siddharth Kara, Fellow on Human Trafficking, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard
Kennedy School; Fellow on Forced Labor, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights,
Harvard School of Public Health
1. The public (government) and voluntary (non-profits)
sectors are hard at work on this issue, how might the private
(businesses) sector with its resources and convening power
further strengthen the anti-trafficking movement?
The business sector has a vital role to play in combating human trafficking around the
world. The fact of the matter is, countless global supply chains are tainted by various forms
of modern-day slavery, and there is very little awareness of the extent to which these supply
chains are tainted, let alone how they might be reliably cleansed. Countless products
that we purchase every day may have supply chains that stretch to the far corners of the
world, where severely exploited labor might be used at various stages in the production
process. Supply chains that I have personally documented that are tainted by slave-like
practices for products sold in the U.S. include: rice, frozen shrimp, tea, coffee, hand-woven
carpets, apparel, granite, cubic zirconia, and others. The corporate sector must take a
more aggressive stance in acknowledging these issues, supporting research to document
and analyze the extent of problem, and invest in reliable and sustained cleansing and
certification procedures. Doing so will allow consumers to make fully-informed choices
about purchasing products that are free of human trafficking, forced labor, and child labor.
Tracing Tea / Shutterstock.com
3hree
questi ons

23. 21
2. How are governments like the United States assisting
international NGOs or putting pressure on foreign
governments in countries of origin and destination where
corrupt officials actively facilitate trafficking abuses?
The U.S. government is a global leader in advancing more effective efforts to combat
human trafficking. Through its Office to Monitor and Combat Human Trafficking, the U.S.
Department of State supports research, awareness campaigns, and others activities
intended to elevate the global response to human trafficking. The U.S. government also
engages in important diplomatic and policy efforts around the world relating to human
trafficking. Several other U.S. government agencies, such as the Department of Labor,
the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice, and others also all play
important roles in combating human trafficking. In addition, the U.S. Trafficking Victims
Protection Act and its four reauthorizations are a model for national legislation on human
trafficking. In many countries, the issue of corruption is a particularly complex one, from the
police, to border patrol, to the judiciary, and effecting real change in the near term remains
a challenge. Having said this, progress has certainly been made on the issue of corruption
in many of the countries that I have visited. While much remains to be done by the U.S.
Government and other governments to tackle human trafficking more effectively, especially
as relates to providing greater resources and increased international cooperation, the U.S.
Government is certainly a global leader as far as current efforts are concerned.
3. How has the global economic downturn affected the human
trafficking industry?
This is an interesting question. There is limited data on the issue of how the recent global
economic downturn has affected levels of human trafficking around the world, but there
is certainly a general sense that the downturn has exacerbated the issue. In many cases,
the downturn led to increased vulnerability of already-vulnerable populations, which in turn
precipitated increased desperation to find income-generating opportunities. Traffickers
and other exploiters capitalized on this desperation to acquire new victims in a plethora of
sectors. Promises for reliable wages or other opportunities to migrate for a better life have
turned into one-way tickets into outright exploitation. At the same time, the global economic
downturn has also meant that many consumers in developed economies have needed to
cut expenses. One way of doing so is to purchase the less expensive version of products.
In many cases, these low-cost products are produced through some degree of labor
exploitation, which in the extreme can be slave-like in nature. Increased demand for low-
cost products has in turn stimulated demand by producers to cut costs of production, and
labor is a prime means of doing so. Thus, on both sides of the equation (production and
consumption) the global economic downturn has exacerbated levels of human trafficking,
though it would be very useful for the field to have a more reliable sense of exactly how,
why, and to what extent global economic downturns impact levels of human trafficking.
The same must be said of other large-scale catastrophes, such as military strife and
environmental disaster, each of which is almost always a harbinger of significant increases
in human trafficking from the affected areas.

24. 22
CAASE: ENDING HARM, DEMANDING CHANGE IN CHICAGO AND BEYOND
Rachel Durchslag, Founder of the Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation (CAASE)
I never would have imagined that a film could change the course of my life, but in 2003 I
watched a film about human trafficking, and something inside of me changed. I learned
that day of an injustice so profound that I had a hard time imagining the subject of the film
could be true. I almost could not believe that women were being sexually enslaved in the
21st
century.
When I got home, I could not stop thinking about what I had seen. The idea of someone
being forced to endure sexual exploitation, while someone else profited, was unfathomable.
When I learned that human trafficking was not only taking place internationally but also here
in my home, I knew I needed to take action.
In order to really understand the issue, I wanted to get out of my comfort zone and work
with victims abroad. In 2004, I traveled to both Thailand and India to work with young
children who had been kidnapped and sold by their families into sexual slavery. Seeing
the faces of these young people transformed me, and hearing the stories of what they had
endured inspired me to make ending sexual exploitation my life’s work. This became the
spark for creating the Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation, or CAASE, a nonprofit
dedicated to ending the perpetration of sexual harm.
When working on CAASE’s mission, I thought back to my time abroad. I remembered the
girls I met, many of whom had scars covering their bodies from their ordeals. I visualized
the child who had been set on fire by her trafficker. And the other girl whose body bore
knife marks that covered all of her exposed skin.
And then I thought about the faces I hadn’t seen—those of the men who had sexually
exploited these girls and robbed them of their childhoods. I knew that as long as men
were willing to buy sex, creating demand, the sex trade would continue to flourish. Without
addressing demand, people would continue to be harmed.
The sex trade industry is one of the ugliest manifestations of harmful human interactions.
It occurs both internationally and domestically. Many of us have heard about international
trafficking. Information and depictions of sex trafficking have begun to appear in our movies
and public awareness campaigns. The United Nations helps us contextualize the extent of
the problem by showing how trafficking is now the second largest money-making venture in
the world, and that it nets organized crime more than $12 billion a year.
pictured Mercy Ojelade and John Kazek
END ING HARM,

25. 23
Trafficking is a gruesome reality. It is the buying and selling of human beings through
force, fraud or coercion. Traffickers are strategic business people. They search out the
most vulnerable individuals and entrap them in the sex trade through promises of jobs,
education, or a relationship.
So what does sex trafficking and sexual exploitation look like in our own community? In
Chicago alone, between 16,000 to 25,000 women and girls are impacted by the sex trade
industry on any given day. Many Americans still fail to grasp the severity of the problem on
a national and local level. This is in part due to the clandestine nature of prostitution, which
largely takes place indoors and away from the public eye: in strip clubs, in hotel rooms, in
massage parlors, and in brothels.
In Chicago alone, between 16,000 to 25,000
women and girls are impacted by the sex
trade industry on any given day.
Our society also accepts the sex industry and glorifies pimping and prostitution. The
word “pimp” is now used to describe everything from juice, to cars, to parties at clubs, to
baby clothes. We have elevated this particular type of perpetrator to celebrity status. And
the more we look at pimps as glamorous, the more the harms experienced by sexually
exploited women and children go both unnoticed and unaddressed.
Many people do not understand prostitution and sex trafficking as a pervasive form of
violence against women. Instead, prostitution is seen as a choice, or even a legitimate
career. Many who hold these beliefs are unaware of the harsh and profoundly disturbing
realities of the sex trade for the vast majority of those who are in it. While prostitution is
an issue that impacts people of all ages, homeless youth are especially vulnerable. In
Chicago, one study shows that the average age of entry into prostitution is 16. According
to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, one out of every three teens on
the street will be approached to be recruited into prostitution within 48 hours of running
away. Homeless youth, many of whom have fled abusive homes, are often coerced into
prostitution out of dire emotional and financial circumstances.
With all the harms and injustices faced by those in the sex trade, there are very few
resources that exist to help people exit prostitution. In Illinois there are no residential
programs created specifically for adult survivors of the sex trade, and only eight beds
for prostituted youth. We lack other needed services for prostituted individuals such as
substance abuse treatment, domestic violence programs, and employment opportunities.
Creating resources to meet the needs of prostituted individuals is essential, but this is only
one piece of the solution. The other piece is both simultaneously simple and complex:
we must address the root cause of the issue—the demand, predominantly from men, to
purchase the bodies of women and children. CAASE’s work focuses on addressing this
root cause. Our legal services, advocacy, prevention and community engagement are
all focused on holding perpetrators of sexual harm accountable for the harm they cause.
We offer free legal representation to survivors of sexual assault and the sex trade. We are
passing laws and influencing policy to hold pimps, johns and traffickers accountable. We
are teaching young men about the realities of the sex trade, with the goal to prevent them
from becoming patrons. And we are encouraging community engagement around these
issues through the arts. To learn more about our efforts, please visit www.caase.org
DEMAND ING
CHAN GE

26. 24
FIVE WAYS TO STOP HUMAN TRAFFICKING
AND SEXUAL EXPLOITATION
5IVE WAY S
TO S TOP
EDUCATE YOURSELF
Learn to recognize the signs that
someone might be a victim of
trafficking: http://www.polarisproject.
org/human-trafficking/recognizing-
the-signs. If you believe someone is
a victim of human trafficking, contact
the National Human Trafficking
Resource Center Hotline at
1-888-3737-888.
FOCUS LOCAL
Sex trafficking would
not exist were there not
a demand to purchase
the bodies of victims.
Find out about what
your city is doing to
suppress demand at:
www.demandforum.net.
Sign up for action alerts
at change.org so that
you can support future
initiatives to end human
trafficking.
LEND A HAND
Volunteer your time or
professional expertise by
contacting a local advocacy
organization to see how you
can help. For example, if
you are a lawyer, you can
provide pro bono services to
trafficking survivors. Find out
about organizations in your
state working to end sex-
trafficking by visiting:
http://caase.org/our-alliances.
DONATE
Survivors of human and sex-
trafficking are frequently in
need of clothing and other
donations. Contact local
organizations to find out what
donations they can accept.
SPREAD THE WORD
Though there recently has been more
media attention regarding issues of human
trafficking, many people remain unaware of
this human rights violation. You can host book
clubs, film screenings, utilize activist toolkits,
and create other projects to raise awareness.
But
I’m
just
one
person,
what
can
I do?
Contributed
by Rachel
Durchslag,
founder of the
Chicago Alliance
Against Sexual
Exploitation
(CAASE)

27. 25
A PATH TO SERVICE
I am so
thankful
for the
road
I once
thought
was
broken,
to now
be a
gateway
to those
greatest
in need.
A PATH
TO SERVICE
Photo: Jessica Minhas (left)
with Samana, a survivor
who is part of the Voices
for Change leadership
program at the Somaly Mam
Foundation.

28. 26
A PATH TO SERVICE
Jessica Minhas is a speaker, journalist and producer on social justice activism, abuse, and
sex trafficking. Jessica is on the team of the Blind Project. The Blind Project is a collective
of passionate individuals uniting together, leveraging their unique talents to empower
victims and survivors of the commercial sex trade in Southeast Asia. Learn more at
www.theblindproject.com
I have been working in the human rights field for over ten years. I started young—when I
was 19. I guess you could say I am an accidental humanitarian, though I’m not sure if there
is such a thing. I think social injustice work finds you, rather than you finding it. The truth of
the matter is, fighting for the rights of those who are vulnerable has so profoundly impacted
my life that I often have to stop and ask myself, “How did I become so blessed?”
I was raised in the South by just my single white grandfather. We found ourselves in this
predicament after my biological parents abandoned my identical twin, Jennifer and me
when we were six months old. It was then that my maternal grandparents courageously
stepped in and accepted custody of us, despite being well into their retirement.
Just a few short years later, when Jennifer and I were nearly three years old, we were
involved in a deadly accident that claimed her life. As a way to cope, I believe, my
grandparents succumbed to an exponentially aggressive alcohol addiction that would
eventually contribute to my grandmother’s death when I was nine years old.
My grandfather’s erratic anger towards me, likely
out of his own deep pain and grief, worsened my ability
to navigate the chaotic and terrifying household I
found myself in.
Left alone, my aging grandfather did his best to commit his life to me to ensure my future,
but the sad reality was we were now by ourselves, and his alcoholism had become both
unpredictable and violent. As a 4th grader, I was now expected to fulfill the roles my
grandmother had as ‘lady of the house’. Cook, maid, emotional confidant and scapegoat
were now duties that replaced any sense of normalcy in my childhood. My grandfather’s
erratic anger towards me, likely out of his own deep pain and grief, worsened my ability to
navigate the chaotic and terrifying household I found myself in.
Many times I expressed my fear and growing understanding that what I was experiencing
at home was not actually supposed to be a part of anyone’s childhood. I frequently went
to my teachers, counselors at school, friends’ parents and neighbors asking for help, but
was met with a display of empathy, but an overwhelming unwillingness to intervene on
my behalf. Gradually, I learned that I was powerless to stop the emotional and physical
abuse at the hands of my struggling grandfather. Feeling isolated, alone, and trapped, I
suffocated for years under the weight of depression and thoughts of suicide.
When I was 15, my grandfather fell gravely ill, and our care-giving roles reversed. His life
was now placed in my hands. In between high school academics, cross-country practice
and play rehearsal, I tried my best to care for him on my own. He survived long enough to
see me turn 18, and graduate from high school, though I’m not sure how. Just a few weeks
after my graduation, he passed away. I was left an orphan.
A PATH
TO SERVI CE

29. 27
For a long time I resented my childhood and everything that had happened. I was angry-
at myself, and at those around me. I couldn’t make sense of all of those years of abuse
and what the reason was. Yet, deep within me a strong desire to someday find some
resemblance of a family motivated my commitment to search for my biological Indian roots.
When I was presented with the opportunity to serve in India and Nepal with one of my best
friends in college, I immediately said ‘yes’. On route to Nepal, we passed through Calcutta
and volunteered at an orphanage for children age 16 and under. When I innocently asked
what happened to the girls when they aged out of care at 16, the staff responded that
unless they were married, or were fortunate enough to find work, they would likely be forced
into sexual exploitation. This was the first time I had ever heard of the commercial sexual
exploitation of children. To me, it was criminal for this small percentage of children rescued
off the street, to later face such desperation that only selling themselves would enable their
survival. I couldn’t understand who would want to have sex with a child or how such an
atrocity could even happen in a modern world. That single moment at this orphanage in
Calcutta changed me.
Looking back, I see clearly how my greatest suffering
has, in fact, become my greatest blessing. My own
struggles have given me a deep understanding,
tenderness and empathy for the poor, the stranger,
the orphan and the widow.
I soon learned an overwhelming majority of sexually exploited youth are runaways or
castaways from dysfunctional homes where they have suffered physical, psychological
and sexual abuse. I realized any one of those children could have been me. I was just as
vulnerable; I too lacked a strong family and any source of support or encouragement. I
was fortunate enough to have access to an education and to have never encountered a
pimp who could have coerced me into prostitution. Still, in a very small way, I saw pieces
of myself in the stories of Calcutta’s victims. I could empathize because I shared the same
feelings of being forgotten and used. I remembered screaming for help and having my
cry, just like theirs, go unnoticed. Suddenly, the resentment I carried for so long turned
into a righteous indignation and fiery passion to help those trapped in sexual slavery. The
tragedies of my childhood are incomparable to the atrocities these children in Calcutta and
many others around the world face, but our shared vulnerability and helplessness drives
me to fight for them. I was exposed to the world of child sex slavery and I decided I would
never turn away.
Looking back, I see clearly how my greatest suffering has, in fact, become my greatest
blessing. My own struggles have given me a deep understanding, tenderness and
empathy for the poor, the stranger, the orphan and the widow. I am so thankful for the road
I once thought was broken, to now be a gateway to those greatest in need. I have learned
that it is in the places where our hearts are broken, that we cultivate our ability to serve
others and love well.
This is my story, but what is yours? Where is your heart broken? What gives you a righteous
indignation? What gives you joy? What makes your heart come alive? Find this, and you will
find your truest self, and in doing so bring hope to those without justice, community and
reconciliation.
A PATH
TO SERVI CE

30. 28
YOUR SLA VERY
FOO TPRINTMEASURE YOUR SLAVERY FOOTPRINT
Go to slaveryfootprint.org to find out how many slaves work for you!
The average person doesn’t comprehend his or her connection to modern-day slavery.
Slavery Footprint helps map consumers’ connections to modern-day slavery by measuring
their impact based on lifestyle choices—including everyday items they purchase or own
such as food, clothing, medicine, and electronics.
Slaveà Raw
Materialsà
Manufacturerà
Brandà
YouHow
do you
measure
up?

31. 29
The Business
Consultant
(male, age 37)
New York
28 slaves
The Nurse
(female, age 26)
Florida
46 slaves
The Electrical
Engineer
(male, age 25)
San Francisco
52 slaves
The Attorney
(male, 63)
Houston
25 slaves
The Graphic Artist
(male, age 47)
Los Angeles
81 slaves
The Teacher
(female, age 31)
Atlanta
64 slaves
The Tech Industry
Executive
(female, 53)
Minnesota
98 slaves
The Stay-at-
Home Mom
(female, age 32)
North Carolina
35 slaves
Here is a random sample of people from across the United States.
YOUR SLA VERY
FOO TPRINT

32. 30
Chal lenge Slavery
Tec h Con test
SPOTLIGHT: CHALLENGE SLAVERY TECH CONTEST
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) partnered with anti-
trafficking organizations Free the Slaves, Not For Sale, Slavery Footprint, MTV Exit, and
Abolition International for the Counter-Trafficking in Persons (C-TIP) Campus Challenge
Tech Contest. Thousands of students from around the world were asked to come up with
a creative technology solution to help further prevention and protection. The winners were
announced at the end of March 2013, and were invited to share their proposals with donors,
counter-trafficking organizations and technology professionals.
WHO:The first-place winners of the Campus Challenge Tech Contest are Virginia Tech’s
Wes Williams, Kwamina Orleans-Pobee and Nick Montgomery.
WHAT:The team’s online intervention tool AboliShop, which is a browser extension for Google
Chrome, makes information about the slavery impact of items available for purchase—based
on Not For Sale’s Free2Work ratings—accessible to Amazon.com’s shoppers. Consumers
can set their own search standards to prioritize ethically sourced and manufactured
products or can opt to purchase more socially conscious products in categories like apparel
and electronics based on the application’s product grades.
See the AboliShop demo here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADP04eXQLq8

33. 31
Chal lenge Slavery
Tec h Con test
The British Council asked the team a few questions about their
winning project:
Q: In a world where people troll the web to find the
best deal on a particular item or comparable products,WHY do
you think consumers will choose the ethical purchase over
the unethical purchase, even if the socially conscious choice
might be more expensive?
A: Many consumers have proven over the past few years to be interested in the
social impact of their purchases, and we think that the primary reason we haven’t seen
a similar movement with slavery-aware consumerism is a lack of information. Abolishop
seeks to remedy that. When consumers can see exactly how their choices are aiding
or combatting modern day slavery, they are empowered to make a difference. While
some may continue to make purchases based only on price, we feel that the majority will
recognise that a few dollars is not worth perpetrating the slavery of another human being,
and will shop accordingly.
In addition, these purchases are often not a matter of major price differences. Many of the
products that are bought with such low grades actually have better graded alternatives
at a similar price point. We really think the utter lack of information, especially information
provided with such proximity to the act of shopping, is the primary reason consumers
haven’t been affected.
Q: HOW might this application affect 1) e-tailers that
don’t offer customers access to ethically sourced brands 2)
manufacturers that might not be concerned with debt-bondage
or wage theft in supply chains?
A: We hope that the effect is a simple one: it hurts their profits. With the power
of our alternative recommendations in hand, which is one of the features of AboliShop,
consumers will be able to move easily toward rewarding companies that do offer ethically
sourced products and away from those that are apathetic to this fight. We want to put
monetary pressure on any and every corporation that is actively ignoring the plight of
modern day slavery. We want it to be ethically laudable, but also distinctly profitable, to
care about your supply chain.

34. ‘FUS RO DAH’
32
‘FUS RO DAH’
Sarita, a survivor of international human trafficking.
I am woman torn from home, from all that was known.
I was a child in innocence, lost at their hands.
I was mother, sister, daughter, cousin, friend .... all gone.
But through it all I never gave up.
The pain, the fear, the unknowing.
The starvation, separation and threats.
The rapes, the bleeding, hope lost.
They took my children away from me.
But I am the Unrelenting Force.
This, they did not know as they targeted me.
It is impossible to silence, to hide, to still.
Each day the voice grows stronger ready to shout.
And through it all I never forgot me.
I prayed every night for this ordeal to end.
But every morning I awoke to more cruelty.
My children fed lies more often than food.
Keeping lies out through family bonds.
The Force grows stronger from the pain inflicted
The Balance in my mind fights to remain sane.
The Push to find a way out steadily takes shape.
In spite of it all I found strength anew.
A moment of clarity now and then.
A plan of escape, I’m smarter than them.
I watch and listen and take the chance.
Twenty minutes can feel like forever.

35. 33
Time ticking no clock seen, routines copied and secrets seen.
The hope leads to this, the moment, the one chance I get.
A phone, no signal is all lost again? Wait, static, static is all I can
hear.
A message left in desperation, then wait and hope, time running
out.
My Voice is raw power, pushing aside anything - or anyone - who
stands in my path.
The desire for freedom, the need to escape, the prayers for this to
be taken away.
Building, building, growing stronger, growing braver, welling up
inside until.
The escape plan formed, the rescue made, the silence shattered.
The voice speaks out, the voice is known.
As the voice grows stronger the fear of the captors is seen.
Chasing through states, burning bridges with haste.
The police, the questions, the asking for proof.
The shelters, the running, the hiding, the fear.
Following every movement made, traffickers pursue.
They think they are smart but they are not smart enough.
But I am the unrelenting force.
The journey is not complete when the rescue takes place.
Held captive with no rope, no chains, no end in sight.
Threats against children, starvation and sleep deprivation.
Feed their ego, lack of morals, their thoughts not of human.
To speak out now gives the woman new hope.
To speak out now gives the children a voice.
To speak out now helps others understand.
This
can
happen
to you.

36. Join the conversation as it unfolds on the Roadkill Forum:
http://usa.britishcouncil.org/art/roadkill. Follow us on
Twitter (@usaBritish and #Roadkill13) and Tumblr (#Roadkill13)
Susan Feldman and Andy Hamingson of St. Ann’s Warehouse, Criss Henderson and
Kendall Karg of Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Cora Bissett, Richard Jordan, Tim
Morozzo, Rachel Durchslag of Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation (CAASE),
Leif Coorlim of CNN Freedom Project, Veronica Zeitlin and Emilie Yam of USAID, Norma
Ramos of the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, Sara Elizabeth Dill, Ruth Lewa of
Solidarity with Women In Distress (SOLWODI) Kenya, Kate Mogulescu of Legal Aid Society,
Vivian Huelgo and Laurel Bellows of the American Bar Association, Jimmy Lee of Restore
NYC, Robert Rigby-Hall and Dawn Conway of the Global Business Coalition Against
Trafficking, Siddharth Kara, Debra Brown Steinberg of VS: Confronting Modern Slavery in
America, Baroness Mary Goudie, Lyn Gardner, Bidisha, Jessica Minhas of the Blind Project,
Chipo Nyambuya and Alison Cline of the British Consulate in Chicago, George Kogolla of
British Council in Kenya, Anne Milgram, Heather Gregorio, and Nancy Hoppock at NYU
Law, Matthew Windrum of the British Consulate in New York, Craig Longhurst and Greg
Ruggeri of Ruggeri Salon, Harley DeOliveira, Daniela Federici, Aaron Cohen, Alyse Nelson
of Vital Voices, Mai Shiozaki of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons,
Jody Raphael from the College of Law at Depaul University, Kaitlyn Soligan of Madre, Amy
O’Neil Richard at the U.S. Department of State, Wes Williams, Jennifer Chan at the U.S.
Fund for UNICEF, Tracy Francis of New York Foundation for the Arts, Ken Karlic of Splice
Design Group, and Brooklyn Borough Hall.
SPEC IAL THANKS