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SUMMARY:Thai El Monte Garment Workers: The Return of Slavery and Trafficking in The Modern Era
DESCRIPTION:At 4 am on August 2\, 1995\, Chanchanit Martorell\, Executive Director of the Thai Community Development Center\, met with government authorities and law enforcement at a doughnut shop in El Monte\, California\, blocks from the slavery compound that they would raid\, a row of apartment duplexes on a residential street\, eerily surrounded by barbed wire. The US Department of Labor\, California Labor Commission\, California Employment Development Department\, Cal-OSHA\, federal marshals\, and the El Monte police participated in the raid.  \nThai CDC mobilized a coalition of nonprofit organizations\, attorneys\, and community members to offer shelter\, food and clothing\, medical care\, jobs\, and legal services to the workers following their liberation.\n​\nThe Thai workers had labored for 18 or more hours every day inside rat-infested buildings where they lived crammed into bedrooms with ten of their fellow slaves. Their captors controlled them by confiscating passports\, hiring armed guards\, and physically threatening them and their families back home.  \nThey made clothes for brand-name manufacturers and nationwide retailers. Garments bore the labels Anchor Blue\, Tomato\, Clio\, B.U.M.\, High Sierra\, Axle\, and others—labels owned by well-known retailers\, such as Miller’s Outpost and Montgomery Ward\, or sold on the racks of Nordstrom\, Sears\, and Target. \nEl Monte was the first recognized case of modern-day slavery in the United States\, leading to the passage of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act in the year 2000. This exhibition tells the story of the case from the perspective of the survivors\, featuring their testimonies\, images and maps of the compound\, and other artifacts.​ \n(June 10- September 5 2021)
URL:https://www.freedomunited.org/event/thai-el-monte-garment-workers/
LOCATION:Los Angeles United Methodist Museum of Social Justice\, 115 Paseo de La Plaza\, LA\, CA 90012\, United States
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SUMMARY:6th CCARHT Summer Symposium 2021: 'The Body Trafficked' - Day 1
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to your place around the virtual table at the CCARHT 2021 Summer Symposium – here in Cambridge we are getting ready for an intense three days where we shall be exploring with participants from across the world\, the challenges posed by focussing on the various vulnerabilities of ‘the Body Trafficked’. \nDuring the course of these challenging three days we shall be listening to voices of survivors\, researchers\, theoreticians\, policy makers\, psychologists\, advocates for change and NGO front line responders\, anxious to thread together the disparate themes unleashed by this explicit focus on the body within trafficking. \nDay one  – the vulnerability of the child\n \nThe UNODC states that one in three trafficked persons is a child – and that children are ‘easy to target’ and the most vulnerable to trafficking recruitment.  \nThis day is focusing on a rarely investigated element of trafficking – when the State which is tasked to protect the state’s children fails to protect appropriately\, or indeed ‘facilitate’ trafficking like offences.\n·         International adoption and the Hague Convention in the spotlight\n·         Alternative models of ‘adoption’ from Maori traditions – a reconsideration\n·         The Mother and Baby Home Scandal in Ireland – trafficking implications and ’what now?\n·         De-institutionalisation? What happens when we dismantle the institutional model?\n·         Stateless Children – what is the remedy and how can we improve protection \nIn focus Case Studies:  Ireland\, New Zealand\, India\, Korea\, China\, Moldova\, Romania.
URL:https://www.freedomunited.org/event/6th-ccarht-summer-symposium-2021-day1/
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SUMMARY:The Swedish anti-trafficking system and the struggles of sex workers: shortsighted solutions and lack of support
DESCRIPTION:(webinar in English\, with interpreting service in Italian) \nCHAIR: Michela Semprebon\, Coordinator of the INSigHT Research Team \nPRESENTERS: Isabelle Johansson\, Research Fellow of the INSigHT Research Team and Ophelia Eglentyn\, Founder and Member of Red Umbrella Sweden (RUS) \nTOPIC: Sweden\, secondary movements\, the Swedish anti-trafficking system and the protection of women victims of trafficking\, the engagement of sex workers’ associations in the Swedish anti-trafficking system.What role can sex workers’ organisations play in tackling human trafficking? In their role as peer-to-peer communities\, sex workers’ organisations have been acknowledged as important contributors in tackling exploitation and human trafficking. Meanwhile\, sex workers’ organisations often find themselves working in isolation\, without any interest or support from other key anti-trafficking actors. This problem is especially evident in Sweden where the fight against human trafficking is tightly linked to the repressive Swedish prostitution policy\, which aims to abolish the sex trade and further contributes to sex workers’ isolation. While the Swedish focus on repression hinders the involvement of sex workers’ organisations in the Swedish anti-trafficking system\, sex workers’ organisations find other ways to contribute to the cause.In this webinar\, we will talk about the challenges that Swedish sex workers face when organising and working to support their peers. We will also talk about how repressive prostitution policies compromise the well-being and safety of sex workers\, focusing especially migrants. First\, Isabelle Johansson will briefly introduce the research carried out in the context of the INSigHT Action on the functioning of the Swedish anti-trafficking system. She will then interview Ophelia Eglentyn\, Founder and Member of the Swedish sex worker organization Red Umbrella Sweden (RUS). Members of the Italian network GRIPS (a group of researchers on prostitution and sex work) and members of the Comitato per i Diritti delle Prostitute will also join the webinar and discuss with us!
URL:https://www.freedomunited.org/event/the-swedish-anti-trafficking-system/
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