Selling Olga: Stories of Human Trafficking and Resistance
Louisa Waugh
A gripping investigation into the world’s fastest growing organised crime. Waugh spent three years exploring human trafficking in Eastern Europe, talking to women about how they ended up in such dire circumstances. She also talks to women who have been sold into the sex industry in Britain about their experiences.
Publisher: Phoenix (2007)
Countries: Bosnia, Kosovo, Albania
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Innocents Lost - When Child Soldiers Go to War
Jimmie Briggs
A powerful examination of the lives of child soldiers, told through the first hand accounts of the children themselves.
Publisher: Basic Books Inc (2005)
Countries: Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Uganda, Colombia and others
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The Lost Boys of Sudan: An American Story of the Refugee Experience
Mark Bixler
This book tells the moving story of four Sudanese refugees beginning new lives in the US. Having escaped the violence in Sudan, the refugees faced a new challenge: coming to terms with life in America.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press (2006)
Countries: Sudan and the US
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Human Cargo
Caroline Moorehead
An extraordinary investigation into the fate of the 17 million people currently displaced from their homes, visiting war zones, refugee camps and prisons and interviewing 'human cargo' from countries such as Afghanistan, Liberia and Sudan, as well as immigration officials and staff at the United Nations High Commision for Refugees.
Publisher: Chatto & Windus (2005)
Country: UK
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