Slavery Primary Sources | Watkin, Huw, Prashad, Vijay and All Africa News Agency

Huw Watkin

"Rise in Women Forced to Work as Sex Slaves"
Published in South China Morning Post, August 11, 1999

Vijay Prashad

Excerpt from "Calloused Consciences:
The Limited Challenge to Child Labor"
Published in Dollars & Sense, September 1999

All Africa News Agency

"Humanitarian Group Buys Freedom for 4,300 Sudanese"
Published in Africa News Service, December 3, 1999

In 1989 the end of communism seemed to be coming to an end; in fact, within two years the Marxist-Leninist system had been abandoned in all but a handful of countries. The exposure of crimes under particularly severe regimes, such as the one in Romania, increased international awareness of the inhumanity that persisted under communist rule.

Despite the fact that much...