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 [...]
Why Freedom United supports the decriminalisation of sex work
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 [...]
U.S. anti-trafficking organizations constrained on sex workers’ rights
The U.S. government makes around $300 million in funding available annually for anti-trafficking organizations, a significant amount [...]
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 [...]
Institutionalized victimhood: debating sex work in the Philippines
The Philippines enacted its own anti-trafficking law in 2003 with a core focus on ending the sexual exploitation of women and children. [...]
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 [...]
Empower and protect: rethinking bans on child labor
“Child labor isn’t going anywhere, so children’s safety in work must become the priority.” Writing in Open Democracy, [...]
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 [...]
The U.K. is turning its back on modern slavery survivors
Trafficking survivors in the United Kingdom already face many barriers to receiving the support they need to recover and to better [...]
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 [...]
U.K. immigration bill obscures reality of trafficking offenders
In an opinion piece for openDemocracy, researchers Rose Broad and David Gadd explore how the U.K.’s controversial Nationality and [...]
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 [...]
Listening to child workers to understand child labor
Children’s experiences of work and the effects of anti-trafficking interventions are explored in openDemocracy’s new series [...]
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 [...]
