[CNN.com]

In April 1996, UN Special Representative for the Sudan, Gaspar Biro, reported "an alarming increase...in cases of slavery, servitude, slave trade, and forced labor."

Aims to pressure the U.S. government to take peaceful steps to end slavery, to put a stop to the calculated starvation, and to stop the genoical bombing of villages, hospitals and refugee camps by Sudan's radical "Islamic" regime. Two million people have died from these tactics - that's a higher toll than Cambodia's killing fields!

Founded in 1998 by a fifth-grade class in Denver that wanted to take action on behalf of children now held as chattel slaves in the Sudan. The students were in the middle of a history unit on American slavery when they learned that black people were still slaves in the Sudan -- especially boys and girls their own age. That brutal fact was shocking, but the students refused to sit idly by.

"I was continuously beaten because whenever I would stop to feed my baby with my breast milk, somebody would get angry and say I wasn't working." Gathered quotes and pictures provide an in-depth look at slavery today.

Current affairs site highlighting news stories and breaking news about slavery and genocide in the Sudan.