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
Prabha Kotiswaran lectures in Criminal Law at King’s College London. She is the author of Dangerous Sex, Invisible Labor: Sex Work and the Law in India, published by Princeton University Press (2011) and co-published by Oxford University Press, India (2011). She also blogs for the Interdisciplinary Project on Human Trafficking.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe criminal law as sledgehammer: the paternalist politics of India’s 2018 Trafficking BillIndia's new trafficking bill relies exclusively on the stick to achieve its goals. It will fail.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureWeek 6: Commercial sex and the global economyThree stories of commercial sex – which can protect the people engaged in it most?
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryNeoabolitionism’s last laugh: India must rethink traffickingIndia’s new trafficking bill seeks a wide array of new powers to punish, but does nothing to address the causes of...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe path to the UK's Modern Slavery Act 2015: an oral history projectThe UK’s Modern Slavery Act, 2015 was hotly debated by policy-shapers during the drafting process. We take a...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryEmpty gestures: a critique of India’s new trafficking billThe 2016 Global Slavery Index finds that 40% of ‘modern slaves’ live in India. A new trafficking bill seeks to lower...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryTrafficking and slavery interventions under the microscopeBTS editors introduce the ‘case studies and critique’ strand of our new project ‘possible futures’, which will open...