Shamima Begum didn’t join ISIS voluntarily
Children cannot consent to being trafficked, and Shamima Begum is a textbook case of child trafficking. The government chooses to ignore that fact
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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: 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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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: 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
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureMigrant workers still paying off debts that brought them to QatarMigrant workers took loans to work on the World Cup. For many, their creditors are waiting when they return
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureDeath in Qatar, but no just compensation for families back homeQatar’s migrant workers died, but their families struggle on
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: ExplainerThe other Albanian migrant crisisWith Albanians’ migration to the UK in the spotlight, the demographic crisis at home has Albanians fearing for their...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: OpinionShould aid agencies set their sights on modern slavery?Could development and humanitarian aid do for modern slavery what it has done for poverty?
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: OpinionDetention centres, not rubber dinghies, are the modern-day slave shipsThe horrors of Manston Airfield have more in common with the slave trade than the boats bringing people to Dover
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: AnalysisThe UK government is undermining decades of anti-slavery effortsRather than improving support for survivors, the UK is moving backwards in its response to modern slavery
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: AnalysisGovernment prepared to block modern slavery survivors to prevent ‘bogus’ claimsOnce considered a crowning achievement for the Conservative party, the UK’s anti-slavery legislation has become a...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: ReviewA sex worker reviews Good Luck to You, Leo GrandeThe film claims to offer a progressive, sex-positive and feminist take on sex work. But is it good for sex workers?
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: OpinionIndia’s Supreme Court rules in favour of sex workers, and women rise upSex workers in Hyderabad rise up against their forced detention following court’s ruling
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: OpinionThere will never be another Mo FarahAs terrible as these revelations are, what’s more shocking is that he’d never receive that level of compassion today
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: OpinionUK Home Office launches new assault on the rights of modern slavery survivorsThe UK Home Office seems to have a new project: help as few survivors of modern slavery as possible
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: AnalysisBorders, not traffickers, killed 46 people in TexasFrom Essex to San Antonio, on land and at sea, migrants are suffering horrific deaths at the border. What’s it all for?
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureChild workers in Jordan shoulder effects of rising poverty levelsHigh rates of poverty and unemployment make plans to eliminate child labour in Jordan a pipe dream
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: AnalysisTo prevent trafficking in Israel, allow migrants to leave abusive employersIsrael’s National Action Plan to Combat Human Trafficking is blind to the root causes of exploitation. But there are...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureTwo years on £38 a week: life inside the UK’s trafficking support systemDomestic workers inside the National Referral System at risk of new exploitation as they struggle to make ends meet
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureThe human cost of border deterrenceThe price of preventing people from crossing borders is measured in lives lost