This articles argues that we must look beyond survival to end domestic trafficking. Ending labour trafficking requires us to elevate [...]
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International law on organized crime key in tackling human trafficking
Long-standing debates within the counter-trafficking and counter-smuggling space have focused on the ineffectiveness around the [...]
Slavery Proposal in Australia Lacks Due Diligence
Komala Ramachandra, a researcher at Human Rights Watch, reports that Australia’s justice minister proposed a new legislation in August [...]
Ethiopian migrants forced to work without pay under Lebanon’s kafala system
Ethiopians make up the majority of the foreign domestic work population employed in Lebanon. The majority of these domestic workers are [...]
New President of Uzbekistan Fails to Keep His Promise
President Shavkat Mirziyoyev of Uzbekistan, promised to outlaw forced labor in his country, but institutions–schools, faculties, [...]
Concerns for migrant workers in U.S. farms and meat plants as COVID-19 spreads
COVID-19 is spreading rapidly through the largely immigrant workforces of U.S. farms and meat factories, but insufficient protections [...]
Misuse of Indian Law May Lead to Forced Child Marriage
The 2012 Protection of Children against Sexual Offences Act (POSCO) in India is intended to safeguard children from sexual abuse. Among [...]
With Brexit, U.K. has key opportunity to take a stand on Uzbek cotton
In an opinion piece for openDemocracy, a human rights lawyer called for the United Kingdom to end its complicity in forced labor in [...]
Confronting the Root Causes of Forced Labor in Global Supply Chains
Where does forced labor come from? What are the root causes? Often this is traced back to two explanations: poverty and globalization, [...]
Pandemic could be opportunity to improve plight of migrant workers in Middle East and North Africa
Across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, the COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the exploitation, inequality, and [...]
Domestic Worker-Employer Solidarity in the Philippines
There are over 2 million domestic workers in the Philippines, but many of them continue to face the same problems as their peers around [...]
Pandemic worsens exploitation of migrant farmworkers in Greece
Undocumented migrant workers that provide the bulk of seasonal labor in Greece’s strawberry farms have reported suffering increased [...]
Domestic Worker Organizing in France for C189
France has made great progress in advancing domestic workers’ rights through union organizing, but the government still has yet [...]
Sex workers continue to be excluded from anti-trafficking movement
Writing in openDemocracy’s Palermo Protocol 20th anniversary special last week, the International Committee on the Rights of Sex [...]
The Labor Protests Overshadowing Chinese New Year
While many think of Chinese New Year as a time for parades and colorful fireworks, for thousands of Chinese construction workers the [...]
Domestic workers fight back: everyday victories and stories of defiance
In the face of overwork and wage theft, Sara, a domestic worker in Beirut, recalls how her employer demanded receipts and counted every [...]
The “Raid and Rescue” Model of India’s 2018 Anti-Trafficking Bill
Indian Minister for Women & Child Development Smt Maneka Gandhi is likely to table India’s new anti-trafficking bill in the [...]
Victims categorized under ‘unknown exploitation’ less likely to access support
Potential victims of trafficking referred to the U.K.’s system for identifying people who have experienced trafficking – the National [...]
Worker-driven solutions end slavery in electronics
Photo credit: ILO/Asrian Mirza A quarter of the world’s manufacturing is for the electronics sector. It employs millions of [...]
Does venture capitalism harm more than help anti-trafficking efforts?
Contributors at openDemocracy have begun a policy debate on the effects of philanthrocapitalism on the anti-trafficking field. Venture [...]
Anti-Trafficking Policy Makers “Do Not Want to Disrupt Power Relationships”
Why do so many interventions to stop human trafficking fail? Because politicians are less interested in adopting policies that [...]
How we talk about modern slavery matters
Is modern slavery a disease like the coronavirus? Is it a “stain” on otherwise spotless companies’ reputations? Dr. Ras and [...]
Uzbekistan’s Future Hinges on Freedom of Association
Uzbekistan has embarked on major reforms and increased diplomatic engagement since Shavkat Mirziyoyev took over as president. Yet, [...]
Misusing the term “sex trafficking” doesn’t help prevent exploitation
In an opinion piece published by openDemocracy this week, Ben Chapman-Schmidt addresses the use, and misuse, of the term ‘sex [...]
