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Beyond Survival to End Domestic Trafficking

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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Opinion: There is No “Race to the Bottom”

It has become increasingly common to talk about a “race to the bottom” when it comes to the erosion of workers’ [...]

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UK Modern Slavery Act: Putting Saviors Before the Saved?

This past week the UK Modern Slavery Act turned four years old. Yet while the government has spent upwards of £100 million to tackle [...]

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Talking Trafficking With Jamaican Sex Workers

Sex workers in Jamaica face more violence from clients and the police than traffickers, but addressing this problem is one too [...]

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The Two-Fronted Fight of Sex Workers Against Trafficking

Sex workers are in a difficult position, fighting both exploitation in the sex industry and misguided policies that are supposed to [...]

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