Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
Elena Shih is an Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies at Brown University. Her current book project, The Price of Freedom: Moral and Political Economies of Global Human Trafficking Rescue, is based off 40 months of ethnographic participant observation of the transnational movement to combat human trafficking. She is also a Faculty Fellow leading the Human Trafficking Research Cluster through the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice. She tweets at: @uhlenna.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureHow has philanthrocapitalism helped or hurt the anti-trafficking movement?The injection of billions of dollars of private capital into anti-trafficking work has changed the field. Is that a...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe fight to decriminalise sex workCOVID-19 threatens both the lives and livelihoods of sex workers yet governments look the other way. A new...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryIntroduction: do the hidden costs outweigh the practical benefits of human trafficking awareness campaigns?Raising awareness campaigns may be motivated by good intentions, but how much do they actually accomplish? What are...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureWeek 7: Commercial sex and decent workHeed the call for rights not rescue
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe anti-trafficking rehabilitation complex: commodity activism and slave-free goodsNGOs that provide alternative, low-wage employment for 'rescued' sex workers market their goods as 'slave free', yet...