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There are currently more slaves today than at any time in human history. That’s the basis of a new and extremely disturbing book by Benjamin Skinner, called A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face With Modern Slavery. Using the definition of slaves as “those that are compelled to work, through force or fraud, for no pay beyond subsistence,” Skinner traveled the world over and interviewed over a hundred slaves, slave dealers, and survivors. Through their stories, he weaves a description of a world where women and children can be bought for a few dollars for sex or domestic labor. He also chronicles the four-year State Department career of John Miller, “America’s anti-slavery czar,” and questions the tactics of the United Nations and the Bush and Clinton administrations. Skinner’s book has a foreword by top diplomat Richard Holbrooke, who says “Ben Skinner takes the reader into some of the world’s worst hell-holes” and “exhumes ghosts that walk today’s world.”

GUEST: Benjamin Skinner, a fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard Kennedy School of Government, author of “A Crime So Monstrous: Face to Face with Modern-Day Slavery”

Benjamin Skinner will speaking on Tuesday April 21st at 6 pm, at the Spring Fundraising Event: From Slavery to Freedom for CAST (Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking) at the Beverly Hills Country Club, 3084 Motor Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90064.

For more information, visit www.acrimesomonstrous.com.