Resource Shelf has found this report on slavery, formally, the fifth annual Trafficking in Persons Report.
An excerpt: "These data showed that, of the estimated 600,000 to 800,000 men, women, and children trafficked across international borders each year, approximately 80 percent are women and girls and up to 50 percent are minors. The data also illustrate that the majority of transnational victims are trafficked into commercial sexual exploitation. With a focus on transnational trafficking in persons, however, these data fail to include millions of victims around the world who are trafficked within their own national borders."
We don't seem to have a good contemporary book on the subject. There's one out there, Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy by Kevin Bales, which we will try to order, and see what other resources its bibliography might lead to. We did find a fact sheet at the United Nations web site.
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