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Author/activist to discuss slavery |
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Kathleen Amerkhanian |
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Sep 26, 2005 |
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| Carol Chehade |
Carol Chehade, who has written articles about genocide in Africa and a book about racism in America, will speak about “Slavery in the 21st Century” Wednesday, Sept. 28, at noon in the Law Center Auditorium.
Human rights organizations estimate that there are at least 27 million people in bondage worldwide. Modern-day slavery manifests itself in the form of forced labor, servile marriage, debt bondage, child labor and forced prostitution.
Chehade, who has been involved in helping to free slaves in Sudan, will illustrate the problem with the stories of three people who have lived as slaves — a Sri Lankan who was enslaved in Lebanon, a woman from Sudan, and a man from Darfur who was abducted when he was 10. She will discuss the roots of slavery and how the human trafficking industry has flourished during times of political and social instability.
Chehade’s book, Big Little White Lies: Our Attempt to White-Out America (2001), reflects her lifelong interest in the role of race and ethnicity in society. An Arab American who immigrated to the United States as a young child, she writes that she developed a sensitivity to disparities in the way different races are treated while growing up in the Detroit area.
She runs a nonprofit human rights organization called One New Earth, which attempts to bring together diverse communities to find solutions to worldwide problems. She has been a featured guest on various news programs, including CNN, NPR and MSNBC.
The speech, co-sponsored by the College of Law’s chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, is free and open to the public.
For more information, contact the Law Alumni Affairs and Communications Office at 419.530.2712.
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