Slavery in The 21st Century

Acknowledgements
The authors wish to thank Norah Gallagher for her contribution to this review as well as
Matthew Armbrecht, Elizabeth Johnston, Marcela Kostihova, Rose Park, Anna Rothwell and Mary
Thacker for their assistance. The authors are also grateful for the helpful comments that were
received from the Government of Pakistan and several non-governmental oranizations when this
review was first submitted to the Working Group on Contemporary Forms of Slavery in 1999.
Particularly helpful were the oral and later written comments from Gunilla Ekberg and from Malka
Marcovich, President of the Movement for the Abolition of Prostitution and Pornography (MAPP)
and permanent representative of the Coalition against Trafficking in Women at the United Nations
in Geneva and Vienna. The authors are also grateful for the encouraging comments of the
International Service for Human Rights. An abbreviated and modified version of this review has
been published in the German Yearbook of International Law.
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