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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: AnalysisFair Trade milk could be bad for US dairy workers’ healthFair Trade USA’s expansion into the dairy industry could solidify worker exploitation in the sector, not remove it.
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: OpinionAustralia’s abandoned refugees: nine years of exile in offshore purgatoryThe Australian government banished more than 100 refugees to Papua New Guinea instead of allowing them to build new...
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: AnalysisCOVID-19 has transformed Somaliland’s remittance lifelineRemittances were projected to crash at the start of the pandemic, but in Somaliland COVID-19 created an opportunity...
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: Feature‘We had to flee’Nine women lay bare why they went to Brazil and what they experienced once they got there. Not all migration stories...
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: Feature‘I was pregnant and had nowhere to go’Nine women lay bare why they went to Brazil and what they experienced once they got there. Not all migration stories...
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: Feature‘A lawyer in Congo and a maid in Brazil’Nine women lay bare why they went to Brazil and what they experienced once they got there. Not all migration stories...
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: Feature‘I cannot say that I experienced war as many people have’Nine women lay bare why they went to Brazil and what they experienced once they got there. Not all migration stories...
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: Feature‘The police showed up at our house’Nine women lay bare why they went to Brazil and what they experienced once they got there. Not all migration stories...
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: Feature‘Brazil was my dream country’Nine women lay bare why they went to Brazil and what they experienced once they got there. Not all migration stories...
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: Feature‘There is everything in my country, but there was war there’Nine women lay bare why they went to Brazil and what they experienced once they got there. Not all migration stories...
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: Feature‘Men can say ‘This is a worthless woman,’ but I need to bring bread home’Nine women lay bare why they went to Brazil and what they experienced once they got there. Not all migration stories...
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureTo be a Congolese woman in BrazilNine women lay bare why they went to Brazil and what they experienced once they got there. Not all migration stories...
DEBATE: What has philanthrocapitalism done to anti-trafficking movement?
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryNow is the time to support sex workers’ rightsSex workers have suffered under the pandemic because most are excluded from both private and public support. Donors...
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryPhilanthrocapitalists stand in the way of direct aid, so we have no time for themSex workers and other marginalised communities are in desperate need of rights and direct cash assistance, no...
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryPrivate giving for anti-trafficking hides government inactionPhilanthropy in anti-trafficking has brought about important change. But it has also allowed governments to avoid...
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe catalysing power of philanthropy in anti-traffickingA few large donors forced a step change in anti-trafficking work when they began to collaborate a few years ago. Now...
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe blindness of using venture capital to fight human traffickingVenture capital relies on market-based solutions to maximise short-term gains. That is no way to address worker exploitation.
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureIntroduction to the debateThe 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 SlaveryONLINE COURSE: Forced and precarious labour in the global economyThis is a free online open access course developed by members of the Beyond Trafficking and Slavery editorial team....
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: OpinionThe case for five new statesGranting statehood to the US’s territories would transform the lives of 4+ million citizens, and probably US politics as well
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: AnalysisAtlanta Asian massage parlor murders are a warning to the anti-trafficking sectorPlaying fast and loose with stories of ‘sex trafficking’ is a good way to get innocent women hurt
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeaturePrivate donors: the pied pipers of ‘modern slavery’?The hundreds of millions of dollars washing into anti-trafficking work conveniently washes away the blame rich...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: Feature‘I take my hat off to the Brazilian woman’Nine women lay bare why they went to Brazil and what they experienced once they got there. Not all migration stories...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: AnalysisHomosexuality isn't alien to Ghanaian societyGhanaian politicians stick their heads in the sand when they claim that homosexuality is merely a Western import
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: OpinionThe torture of Australia’s offshore immigration detention systemA new documentary by a former detainee explores how Australia has been treating people seeking asylum in its Nauru...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: OpinionGhana’s imported intolerance of LGBT+ rightsGhana was once more tolerant of non-heteronormative behaviour, but rounds of colonisation changed that
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: InterviewCausing harm while trying to help women in sex workA new campaign tries to educate well-meaning people on why they often end up harming sex workers, even when they're...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryDon’t call it ‘sex trafficking’‘Sex trafficking’ isn’t a sub-category of human trafficking, but a rhetorical ploy designed to delegitimate sex work...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe impact of COVID-19 on working children in Buenos AiresThe pandemic has made work for many children more important that ever.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe ‘Danish model’ of exploiting migrant workersThe ‘Danish model’ is thought to have strong worker safeguards, but exploitation is still seeping in through the cracks
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: InterviewHow we got here: the story of the Palermo protocol on trafficking'Human trafficking' didn't have to mean what it now does. This is the story of how it got its definition, as told by...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryHow companies talk about modern slaveryLarge companies in the UK are required by law to state what they’re doing about modern slavery. The way they talk...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryListening to working children is a legal obligation – not a choiceIf the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour truly seeks to help working children then policymakers...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe victims of ‘unknown exploitation’ hiding within the UK National Referral MechanismPotential victims of human trafficking are falling through the cracks of the UK’s National Referral Mechanism. The...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryOpen letter: change course on the International Year for the Elimination of Child LabourChild labour will not end in 2021, and trying to eliminate it will only endanger working children further. Over 100...
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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: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryLabour migrants’ struggle to subvert anti-trafficking interventions in NepalFor the targets of anti-trafficking measures, they are just one more obstacle to overcome.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryCOVID has blurred the lines between waged, coerced and trafficked labour in IndiaLabourers in India barely made ends meet before the pandemic. Many are now facing catastrophe.