Freedom Network USA now supports sex workers’ rights
Jean Bruggeman goes deep to explain why her organisation is getting off the fence and is backing sex workers’ rights
NEW FEATURE: Get off the fence on sex workers' rights
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: VideoWebinar: Time to get off the fence on sex workers' rightsWhy does the anti-trafficking sector hesitate to support sex workers' rights, and what could change that?
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureInstitutionalised victimhood: the ‘progressive’ alternative for sex work in the PhilippinesWith a sex workers’ movement stifled and potential allies silenced, the conversation around the ‘Nordic model’ looks...
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureThe common cause of drug reform and sex workers’ rightsSupporting sex workers’ rights shouldn’t feel like a reach for the drug reform movement. Both exist to reduce the...
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureChoosing between access and sex workers’ rights in PortugalAnti-trafficking NGOs in Portugal have entered into a neoliberal bargain where political neutrality on sex workers’...
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureFence-sitting and its discontents: the fear of taking a stand on sex work in the USThe terrain for sex worker activism in the United States has been shaped by the silence of those who fear the...
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureThere is no neutral position on whether sex work is work'Neutrality’ is based on the assumptions of the anti-sex work camp, which makes abstention a political stance in its...
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: InvestigationLost in translation: do anti-trafficking organisations reflect their employees' views on commercial sex?What do staff at anti-trafficking organisations in the United Kingdom think about sex work? Are their personal...
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureWhy Freedom United supports the decriminalisation of sex workThe evidence is clear that to build resilience to human trafficking in the sex industry, decriminalisation is the...
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureThe anti-trafficking movement has left sex workers behindAnti-trafficking NGOs need to take a stance on sex work – or they will just keep harming us.
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: InterviewCriminalising sex workers’ clients makes trafficking worseAndrew Wallis, the CEO of Unseen, tells us what he really thinks about attempts to introduce Nordic-style...
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureThe importance of unpopularity: taking a position on law and policy on sex workAnti-trafficking work runs aground wherever it tries to avoid taking a position on sex work
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureIt's time to get off the fence on sex workers’ rightsYou cannot effectively combat human trafficking within the commercial sex sector without taking a stand on basic...
The long march of India's Trafficking in Persons Bill
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: AnalysisIndia’s new trafficking bill fails to protect survivors financiallyThe Trafficking in Persons Bill forsakes the financial security of informal workers and survivors of trafficking to...
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: AnalysisDoes India really need the new Trafficking in Persons Bill?India already has plenty of laws dealing with labour exploitation, why not use those instead?
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: AnalysisMaking trafficking a capital offence in IndiaShould India really be adding such an unreliable punishment to an already complex context?
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: AnalysisIndia’s new trafficking bill undermines access to work and labour rightsThe new Trafficking in Persons Bill is based on a wilful misreading of how work works in India
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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.
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryScandals in sex worker rescue shelters: is ‘awful’ distracting from ‘lawful’?How should we channel concern over the growing number of anti-trafficking scandals?
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryA recipe for injustice: India’s new trafficking bill expands a troubled rescue, rehabilitation, and repatriation frameworkIndia’s proposed trafficking in persons bill replicates the flaws of the existing framework. It must be re-written...
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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 SlaveryThe political economy of anti-traffickingPoliticians are far more likely to back anti-trafficking measures that don’t disrupt prevailing power balances at...
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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 SlaveryWhy roundabout solutions to forced labour don’t workWithout policies that explicitly address structurally-induced vulnerabilities, we are likely to continue to fail in...
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryNo easy answers for ending forced labour in IndiaIndia must attend to a long list of issues if it's to achieve 'decent work for all' by the year 2030.
Congolese women speak, does the world listen?
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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...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryEmpower and protect – a better approach to child workWorking children are calling for support, but they’re demanding protection from harm and more power over their lives...
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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 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: 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: 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 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 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 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 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...