HTAP Read/Recommend/Act Campaign
We believe that the more available information about human trafficking is, the more likely it is that people will learn and take action.
This campaign was inspired by one of our board members who was unable to find any books about human trafficking while traveling on business. She said, "Human Trafficking is the second largest criminal business internationally and booksellers don't carry the great books that have been written about it. We need to do something to make these books available".
Some of these are "classics" in the field, some are personal stories, some are strongly based on research. Together they give a well rounded view of trafficking today.
HTAP's Recommended Reading List
The Big Picture:
*"A Crime So Monstrous" by E. Benjamin Skinner
*"Ending Slavery: How we Free Today's Slaves" by Kevin Bales
*"Half the Sky" by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl Wudunn
*"Not for Sale" by David Batsone
*"In Our Backyard; A Christian Perspective on Human Trafficking in the United States by Nita Belles
* "Invisible Chains: Canada's Underground World of Human Trafficking" by Benjamin Perrin
* "One Child at a Time" by Julian Sher
Child Sex Trafficking:
*"Girls Like Us" by Rachel Lloyd
*"Renting Lacy; A Story of America's Prostituted Children by Linda Smith
*"Somebody's Daughter" by Julian Sher
*"Stolen Lives" by Jaycee Duggard
*"The Slave Across the Street" by Theresa Flores
*"The Slave Next Door" by Kevin Bales and Ron Soodalter
*"A Walk Across the Sun" by Corbin Addison (fiction)
*"Sold" by Patricia McCormick (fiction)
* "Runaway Girl" by Carissa Phelps
Demand and the Economic Issues:
*"The Johns" by Victor Malarek
*"The Natashas" by Victor Malarek
*"Nobodies" by John Bowe
*"Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery" by Siddharth Kara