According to UN estimates, 27 million people are currently enslaved across the globe. With an imperative message, photographer Lisa Kristine shares images from her travels documenting some of their daily realities. Lisa Kristine uses photography to expose deeply human stories

NG Weekend Show #1247 – Air Date: November 18 This week on National Geographic Weekend, join host Boyd Matson speaking with Lisa Kristine. It may be shocking to many Americans that the Civil War did not, in fact, totally stamp out human slavery in the United States. Photographer and human trafficking activist Lisa Kristine went to

A year ago, a photograph of two child slaves in Nepal carrying stone blocks on their backs had troubled an 8-year-old girl, Vivienne Harr. The California girl thought about those boys, two brothers enslaved in the Himalayas, who were her own age. Their plight moved her to start a lemonade stand and raise money to

Slavery is illegal everywhere, yet it occurs nearly everywhere There are 27 million slaves in the world today – that’s more than double the number of people taken from Africa during the entire transatlantic slave trade. Lisa Kristine, a U.S.-based photographer, has documented modern-day slavery in more than 100 countries on six continents for the

  It was 130 degrees when I was first introduced to the brick kilns of Nepal. In these severe temperatures, men, women, and children — whole families, in fact — were surrounded by a dense cloud of dust while mechanically stacking bricks on their heads, carrying them, 18 at a time, from the scorching kilns

Conversations on Compassion with Dr. James Doty and Lisa Kristine, photographer and humanitarian hosted by CCARE at Stanford University on January 10, 2013. Online photos click here »

MORAGA — Photographer and humanitarian Lisa Kristine has plunged 150 feet down an illegal mineshaft in Ghana to reach the depth of human pain. And she’s been lifted to exalted, pinnacle positions by praise-filled media coverage and industry awards. Having traveled both high and low in nearly 100 countries, Kristine landed at Moraga’s Saint Mary’s

The most pernicious lie still taught in elementary school is that slavery ended in 1865 with the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment. The truth is more disturbing. According to the non-profit organization Free the Slaves, 27 million people are currently enslaved. Who are they?