Benjamin Skinner

Palm oil is an increasingly ubiquitous, yet nearly invisible, substance. Consumers can find it in everything from Crest toothpaste and Gillette shaving cream to Nestle and Kraft food ...

While most Americans believe their connection to slavery ended with the emancipation proclamation, the unfortunate reality is that it exists to this day — and the evidence is on everyone's dinner plates. A new investigative report reveals that laborers on fishing ships are frequently forced to work up to 52 hours straight under dangerous conditions, and are paid only $260 a month for unlimited hours. Because many companies won't disclose where they get their seafood from, avoiding purchasing slave-fished products is difficult to impossible for consumers.

President Obama's Ambassador-at-Large in the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking In Persons, Luis CdeBaca speaks about the global human trafficking problem. Benjamin Skinner, author of A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery and a Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard's Kennedy ...