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Siddharth Kara.jpg. Siddharth Kara is a NY Times Bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist. He is also a British Academy Global Professor and an associate professor at the University of Nottingham.He is best known for his book "Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives" (2023).He has also published a trilogy on modern slavery: Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery (2009), Bonded Labor: Tackling the System of Slavery in South Asia (2012), and Modern Slavery ...
Feb 1, 2023 · Siddharth Kara's previous book Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery, won the 2010 Frederick Douglass Book Prize, awarded for the best book written in English on slavery or abolition.
Jan 23, 2023 · Siddharth Kara’s “Cobalt Red” takes a deep dive into the horrors of mining the valuable mineral — and the many who benefit from others’ suffering. Share full article. 15.
Activist and researcher Siddharth Kara has traveled deep into cobalt territory to document the testimonies of the people living, working, and dying for cobalt. To uncover the truth about brutal mining practices, Kara investigated militia-controlled mining areas, traced the supply chain of child-mined cobalt from toxic pit to consumer-facing tech giants, and gathered shocking testimonies of people who endure immense suffering and even die mining cobalt.Cobalt is an essential component to ...
Siddharth Kara (Sociology and Social Policy) is part of the Rights Lab's Measurement and Geographies Programme and is a British Academy Global Professor (2020-2024). He was one of only 10 academics globally to receive the prestigious BA Global Professorship in 2020.
Siddharth Kara is a tireless chronicler of the human cost of slavery around the world. He has documented the dark realities of modern slavery in order to reveal...
Siddharth Kara is the first Fellow on Human Trafficking with the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He speaks and consults extensively on contemporary slavery and human rights worldwide and advises several governments as well as private and non-governmental organizations on antislavery policy and law. Sex Trafficking is the first of three books providing his groundbreaking new approach to contemporary slavery.
Oct 12, 2017 · Siddharth Kara is the director of the Program on Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery at Harvard Kennedy School, where he is also an adjunct lecturer and teaches a course on human trafficking. He is the author of three books: “Bonded Labor: Tackling the System of Slavery in South Asia”; ...
Feb 16, 2023 · Kara recalled these colleagues saying, “The conditions are so bad, Siddharth. You really should come and take a look, see what’s happening.” “Cobalt to me was a color,” he said.
Siddharth Kara is an author, researcher, and activist on modern slavery. He is a British Academy Global Professor and an associate professor of human trafficking and modern slavery at Nottingham University. Kara has authored three books on modern slavery and won the Frederick Douglass Book Prize. Kara's first book was adapted into a Hollywood film, Trafficked. A feature film inspired by Cobalt Red is currently in preproduction. He divides his time between the U.K. and the US.
