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Beatrice Fernando has moved thousands of audiences at schools, colleges, and religious communities across the country with her story of survival and courage. Beatrice is knowledgeable not only about her own experience and human trafficking in Sri Lanka, but also all aspects of human trafficking in the world today: sex trafficking, chattel slavery, sweatshop child labor, and forced agricultural labor. Speaking on behalf of the millions suffering in the grip of modern-day slavery, Beatrice inspires her audiences to be concerned about the issue and to become activists in the fight for humanity and freedom today. Click here to read about Beatrice's story of enslavement and escape.

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Read Interview with
Vision Magazine
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Associate, American Anti-Slavery Group
The International Relations Committee of the House of Representatives
Sub-Committee on Africa, Global Human Rights, International Operations
March 9, 2005
Read Testimony

Interview with Candy O'Tarry
Sunday, February 6, 2005
Magic 106.7 FM Boston
Listen to Interview

Beatrice testifies on March 9, 2005 before Congressman Smith and Members of the Sub-Committee: "My chores seem unending. I wash the windows, walls, and bathrooms. I shampoo carpets, polish floors, and clean furniture. After twenty hours I am still not done. There’s no food on my plate for dinner, so I scavenge through the trash. I try to call the job agency, but the woman who now owns me has locked the telephone. I try to flee the apartment, but she has locked the door."

"I can feel the burning on my cheeks as she slaps me. It is night and her kids have gone to sleep. Grasping me by the hair, she bangs my head into the wall and throws me to the floor. She kicks me and hits me with a broom. If I scream or fight back, she will kill me. So I bite my lips to bare the pain and then I pass out. This is my daily routine, the life of a slave."