Siddharth Kara

Rights Lab Visiting Professor of Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery

Email: siddharth.kara2@nottingham.ac.uk

Siddharth Kara is a Rights Lab Visiting Professor of Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery. He previously was a British Academy Global Professor with the Rights Lab. His books on modern slavery are Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery (2009); Bonded Labor: Tackling the System of Slavery in South Asia (2012); Modern Slavery: A Global Perspective (2017); and Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our lives (St Martin's Press, 2023) He adapted his first book into a Hollywood film, Trafficked. During 25 years of field research, he has travelled to more than 50 countries to document the cases of thousands of enslaved people and child labourers. He advises several UN agencies and numerous governments on anti-slavery policy and law. His research as a BA Global Professor with the Rights Lab provided the first comprehensive academic study of slavery and child labour in cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, including analysis of its scale, supply chain tracing, and public health and environmental impacts.

 

Research Project

Cobalt Mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo