Benjamin Harkins is Technical Officer with the ILO Ship to Shore Rights South East Asia programme. He also founded the Decent Work and Labour Mobility programme at the Livelihoods and Food Security Fund, the largest development fund operating in Myanmar. Since arriving in South East Asia more than 13 years ago, he has worked with UN agencies, non-governmental organisations and research institutes to support greater social and economic justice for migrant workers within the region.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: AnalysisWorkers’ rights in Myanmar: a decade of fragile progress comes under threatLabour protections were insufficient before the coup. Now the junta is rolling them back
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryWage theft: the missing middle in exploitation of migrant workersEnsuring that migrants are paid properly for their work would do more good than anti-trafficking ever will.
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Published in: Sobre trata y esclavitud¿Por qué no sabemos si funcionan las iniciativas contra la trata?La evaluación rigurosa en raras ocasiones beneficia a la industria contra la trata de personas y por eso es tan...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryChanging the conversation on labour migration in Southeast AsiaA regional study interrogates some of the commonly held assumptions about which factors lead to better outcomes for...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryWhy don’t we know if anti-trafficking initiatives work?Rigorous evaluation is rarely good for the anti-trafficking industry. That's why so little of it exists. Español