Trafficked Filipino workers refused support in UK and Philippines
Trafficking survivors from the Philippines are struggling to access support both at home and in the UK
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: Opinion5 ways to start repairing the damage of the Illegal Migration ActThe Illegal Migration Act makes life harder for modern slavery survivors. Here's how we start repairing the damage
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: AnalysisHuman smuggling from Syria to Cyprus overtakes Lebanon routeCorruption and pushbacks have moved refugees’ departure point from Lebanon to inside Syria
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: OpinionLabour must end the demonisation of economic migrantsThe Labour Party has a real opportunity to propose compassionate immigration policies in its election manifesto
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: OpinionI’ve been waiting half my life in the Home Office backlogAll my friends have started work or gone to university, and government asylum rules are forcing me to fall behind
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: ReviewSound of Freedom is everything an anti-trafficking film shouldn’t beGlorifying vigilante justice may sell movie tickets, but it doesn’t help trafficked children
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: AnalysisWhy have the Tories abandoned migrant victims of modern slavery?The Illegal Migration Bill removes protections for migrants that the Tories themselves put in place. Why?
FEATURE: The Politics of Survivor Engagement in Anti-Trafficking
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: InterviewTrafficking survivor says she was told to blame Muslims in Lords speechFar-right groups are manipulating human trafficking survivors for political gains, says Caitlin Spencer
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: InterviewHow to speak to trafficking survivors without hurting themJournalists often try to access survivors to give colour to their stories. Few realise how wrong that can go
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: InterviewThe far right tried to profit off my story, says Telford sex ring survivorHolly Archer, author of I Never Gave My Consent, on the dangers of being a survivor in the public eye
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureHow big tech and AI are putting trafficking survivors at riskThe tech industry’s privileging of ‘safety over privacy’ could get the most vulnerable killed
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureThe anti-trafficking movement is pitting survivors against each otherTrafficking survivors have gone from fighting to be heard to fighting each other. Is this progress?
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureForgotten survivor initiatives: the zombie projects of anti-traffickingSurvivors’ groups are supposed to empower people. This is what happens when they don’t
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: InterviewRescuing the rescuers: how survivors are re-making anti-traffickingFor change to happen in anti-trafficking, allies need to step back and make space for survivors
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureWhat does real healing look like for trafficking survivors?Going through cancer treatment showed me that I could be trusted as an expert of my own experience. We should treat...
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureTrafficking survivors aren’t just stories to be soldStories of suffering power the anti-trafficking movement. But can survivors be more than their stories?
How to build a survivor-led anti-trafficking movement
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureWhy aren’t child soldiers treated as human trafficking ‘survivors’?Child soldiers are often shunned when they return from war. This is no way to treat ‘survivors’
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureWhat could prevent survivors from being retrafficked in India? A decent incomeWithout economic prospects, trafficking victims in India have little choice but to be exploited again
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureMeet trafficking survivors where they are, not where you wish them to beReal survivor engagement means embracing diversity, rather than just platforming individuals who tick all the boxes
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureBreaking taboos on trafficking survivors in East AsiaHow can organisations engage with survivors if stigma prevents them from identifying as one?
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureFlipping the script on Survivor Leadership™ in anti-traffickingSurvivors are much more than their trauma
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureCould survivors help ‘fix’ anti-trafficking?Involving people with lived experience in anti-trafficking work is a trend, but will it create real change?
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First-hand writing from sex workers, domestic workers, migrant workers, and child workers
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: OpinionAng mga manggagawang Filipino na natraffick ay tumanggi sa suporta ng UK at PilipinasAng mga nakaligtas sa trafficking na nagmula sa Pilipinas ay nahihirapan na makakuha ng suporta mula sa sariling...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: ReviewCobalt Red: a regressive, deeply flawed account of Congo’s mining industryBilled as an exposé, Cobalt Red simply rehashes old stereotypes and colonial perceptions of the DRC
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: NewsSyrians trapped in Sudan turning to smugglers to escapeSyrians in Sudan fear returning home, but their only other option is a dangerous smuggling route
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureIt’s time for anti-trafficking to move beyond the ‘victim’ labelEngaging survivors in NGO work should be standard practice, as should respecting each person’s individual complexity
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: OpinionDeadly Greece shipwreck makes case against ‘floating prisons’ even starkerThis search and rescue worker has helped refugees in distress at sea. Those people shouldn’t be housed in barges
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: NewsPotential modern slavery victims sent packing as new UK borders act bitesExperts blame Suella Braverman's borders act as stats show record number of potential victims being turned away
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: OpinionWage theft in Qatar didn’t stop with the World CupQatar instituted many labour reforms during the leadup to World Cup. But have they made a difference?
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: OpinionMigrant solidarity in Tunisia offers hope after racist attacksMigrants and refugees in Tunisia were attacked after the president gave a racist speech. Grassroots movements upped...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: NewsNon-Syrian refugees refused assistance in JordanRefugees from Yemen, Sudan, and Somalia among those unable to access help
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: AnalysisLebanon’s human smugglers ready for the post-Ramadan rushLebanon’s economic crisis has made the 1000-mile sea journey to Italy an attractive way out for many
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: OpinionAre humanitarian visas the solution to the UK’s ‘small boats’ crisis?Compromising on humanitarian visas could allow the Illegal Migration Bill to end territory-based asylum in the UK
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: NewsWhat will the UK’s Illegal Migration Bill really do to trafficking survivors?This legislation is going to make some traffickers very happy
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: AnalysisAre Senegal’s talibés religious scholars or child trafficking victims?In 2013 a fire claimed the lives of religious students in Senegal. A decade on, the institution that had locked them...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: OpinionShamima Begum didn’t join ISIS voluntarilyChildren cannot consent to being trafficked, and Shamima Begum is a textbook case of child trafficking. The...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: News‘It was hell’: asylum seekers and NGOs allege abuse in Greek detentionExclusive: Three reports provide new evidence of migrants and asylum seekers being systematically detained and abused
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: OpinionAnti-strike bill: a step toward forced labour in the UK?The government seems willing to undermine the very bedrock of human rights law to keep employees at work
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: OpinionA right to European asylumInstead of asking what's 'fair' for states, let's ask what's just for asylum seekers
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureWill life get better for Qatar’s migrant workers now the World Cup is over?With the World Cup over, the migrant workers who made it possible are asking: where next?
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureMigrant workers: Qatar still to answer for mass wage theftMany of the migrants who built World Cup infrastructure in Qatar are still waiting for their last pay cheques
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureMigrant rights advocates fear for safety ahead of Turkish electionsOrganisations supporting migrants in Turkey say they face increasing hostility in the run up to 2023 elections