Carr Center for Human Rights Policy to screen Hollywood feature film, TRAFFICKED

CAMBRIDGE, MA — The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, located at the , is pleased to announce that we will be screening the feature film, TRAFFICKED, starring Ashley Judd, Anne Archer, Patrick Duffy, and Sean Patrick Flannery. The film is written and produced by Carr Center Fellow, Siddharth Kara, based on his award-winning first book ': Inside the Business of Modern '. The screening is a collaboration with Harvard’s South Asia Institute, and will be followed by a panel discussion, featuring:

• Siddharth Kara, Adjunct Lecturer of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, Author of “Sex Trafficking”, Screenwriter & Producer of “Trafficked” • Swanee Hunt, Eleanor Roosevelt Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School • Anne Archer, Academy Award-nominated actress, actress in “Trafficked,” activist

Details:

Thursday, September 29, 2016, 4:00pm to 7:30pm Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138

About the Film

TRAFFICKED is the first truly global, authentic feature film on . Around the world, millions of vulnerable girls are being ensnared by human traffickers into the insidious world of sex slavery and exploited relentlessly to generate profits of one hundred billion dollars per year. That is more than the annual profits of Google, Microsoft, Nike and Starbucks combined. Inspired by real characters from the award-winning book 'Sex Trafficking' by leading slavery expert Siddharth Kara, this is the story of three such girls from America, Nigeria and India. After being trafficked through an elaborate global network of illicit human, organ, and drug trafficking, all three girls end up as sex slaves in a brothel in Texas, where they must band together to attempt to reclaim their dignity and freedom.

About Siddharth Kara

Siddharth Kara is an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at HKS. He is recognized as an expert on contemporary slavery and is best known for his award-winning book, Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery. Sex Trafficking was named co-winner of the prestigious 2010 Award at for the best non-fiction book on slavery. The award is generally regarded as the top prize in the field of slavery scholarship, and Kara's is the first book on modern slavery to receive the award. In addition to his books, Kara has authored several other books, academic and law journal articles.

Kara first encountered the horrors of slavery in a Bosnian refugee camp in 1995. Subsequently, he has traveled to more than sixty countries across six continents to research these crimes, interviewing over thousands of former and current slaves of all kinds, witnessing firsthand the sale of humans into slavery, and confronting some of those who trafficked and exploited them.

Kara currently advises the , the U.S. Government, and several other governments on antislavery research, policy and law. Kara is a regular contributor to the CNN Freedom Project, and his ongoing research into slavery around the world has been covered by CNN, the BBC, and CNBC.

About the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy The Carr Center is a research center based at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at , with a mission to realize global justice through theory, policy, and practice. Research, courses, fellowships, public events, and engagement with students, scholars, and journalists form the core of the Center.

About the South Asia Institute

The Harvard University South Asia Institute (SAI) engages faculty and students through interdisciplinary programs to advance and deepen the teaching and research on global issues relevant to South Asia. Founded in 2003 to further Harvard University’s engagement with South Asia, SAI is a university-wide research institute at Harvard that engages faculty members, students, and in region institutions through interdisciplinary programs to disseminate knowledge, build capacity, inform policy, and engage with issues that are shaping South Asia today.

Media contact: Sarah Peck, [email protected] or 617-496-6086

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