My childhood as a child worker in Malawi
Our author wouldn’t be where he is today if bans on child labour had prevented him from working when he needed to
A better approach to child work
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureWhere is the solidarity for working girls?Working girls in Peru are doing their best to look after themselves. Will adults support them?
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureBanning child labour jeopardises working children’s right to surviveTrying to ‘eliminate’ child labour only pushes working children into the shadows
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureChild labour: a shock absorber for economic precarityThe only way to reduce child labour in low-income countries is to make it easier for households to survive without it
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureTo be an Afghan child worker in IranMore than a million Afghan children are trying to make their way in Iran. What could smooth the path for them?
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureEmpower and protect, rather than prohibit: a better approach to child work
Child labour isn’t going anywhere, so children’s safety in work must become the priority
Get off the fence on sex workers' rights
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: InterviewFreedom Network USA now supports sex workers’ rightsJean Bruggeman goes deep to explain why her organisation is getting off the fence and is backing sex workers’ rights
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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: 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: 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...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: OpinionThe violence of the 24-hour workday: fighting racism by fighting exploitationThe existence of the 24-hour-working immigrant underclass drags down the conditions of workers of all races,...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: VideoWebinar: Time to get off the fence on sex workers' rights
Why 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: 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 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: 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 SlaveryRethinking child workChild workers' well-being comes first
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: AnalysisAre countries fulfilling the promise of the Violence and Harassment Convention?As countries slowly sign up to this landmark legislation, a new report tries to help China move further down the path
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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