What’s wrong with the Global Estimates on Child Labour?
Big numbers make headlines, but they must also be treated with extreme caution
A better approach to child work
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureI am a child worker. Hear meChild workers in India have been suffering under the pandemic. Let them tell you what could help them cope
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureIs school the solution to child labour? Not everywhere, and not for all childrenAsk children in West Africa why they work, and many will say ‘to get an education’. That should make you pause.
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: AnalysisThe dangerous lives of Dhaka’s child leather workersMaking leather is hard and dirty work, but should children in Bangladesh be banned from it?
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureTime to recognise the rights of child workersChild workers have many, at times conflicting rights. Practitioners seeking to intervene must honour them all
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureWorking children claim their rights in CameroonSociety rarely respects child workers, but what happens when they demand it?
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureAre adults willing to listen to children on child labour?Working children have the right to policies informed by their views and best interests
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureMy childhood as a child worker in MalawiOur author wouldn’t be where he is today if bans on child labour had prevented him from working when he needed to
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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: OpinionFrance and UK can stop deaths in Channel – but not by increasing border patrolsStopping refugees from moving does not solve refugee migration. Here are the building blocks of a sustainable alternative
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: OpinionVenture capital's place in the struggle against labour exploitationThere’s a market for social change, so why not invest in it?
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: OpinionThe massage parlour as a sacred spacePoor Asian women have been the targets of American evangelicals for over a century. Are their lives not also sacred?
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: AnalysisExit denied: women losing the right to leave in the PhilippinesThe global campaign against trafficking has proved more powerful than the constitution in the Philippines
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Published in: Live discussionsEmpower and protect, don’t prohibit: a better approach to child work
Child labour can't be simply banned out of existence, so we need to start taking arguments for the protection of...
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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: Live discussionsTime to get off the fence on sex workers’ rights
It’s time for anti-trafficking activists to stop being silent on sex workers’ rights. Join our panel of...
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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