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Siddharth Kara


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Knoxville, TN, The United States
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Siddharth Kara is an author, researcher, and activist on modern slavery. Kara has written several books and reports on slavery and child labor, including the New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist, Cobalt Red. Kara also won the Frederick Douglass Book Prize. He has lectured at Harvard University and held a professorship at the University of Nottingham. He divides his time between Los Angeles and London.

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Cobalt Red: How the Blood o...

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Sex Trafficking: Inside the...

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Modern Slavery: A Global Pe...

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“Our daily lives are powered by a human and environmental catastrophe in the Congo.”
Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

“Now you understand how people like us work?”
“I believe so.”
“Tell me.”
“You work in horrible conditions and—”
“No! We work in our graves.”
Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

“               The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. —Franklin D. Roosevelt, second inaugural address, 1937”
Siddharth Kara, Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery

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