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  Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: Analysis

  Pakistan’s wage struggle shows the fragility of progress in the global garment industry

  Written by: Ilana Winterstein All articles by Ilana Winterstein

  Major fashion brands stay silent as devastating wage theft continues in their supply chains

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  Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery

  Voices from the margins

  First-hand writing from sex workers, domestic workers, migrant workers, and child workers

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  Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery

  Job vacancy: impact editor for Beyond Slavery

  Our Beyond Trafficking and Slavery project is searching for someone who can get its work into the hands of people...

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  Myanmar’s Spring Revolution: a history from below

  Written by: Ko Maung All articles by Ko Maung

  Women factory workers took to the streets and catalysed a mass movement

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  Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: Analysis

  Workers’ rights in Myanmar: a decade of fragile progress comes under threat

  Written by: Benjamin Harkins All articles by Benjamin Harkins

  Labour protections were insufficient before the coup. Now the junta is rolling them back

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  Fighting for asylum, as a lesbian and as a mother

  Written by: Mengia Tschalaer All articles by Mengia Tschalaer

  Women applying for asylum on the grounds of their sexual orientation face an uphill battle if they've left children behind

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  Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: Opinion

  France and UK can stop deaths in Channel – but not by increasing border patrols

  Written by: Lucy Mayblin All articles by Lucy Mayblin

  Stopping 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: Feature

  What’s wrong with the Global Estimates on Child Labour?

  Written by: Edward van Daalen All articles by Edward van Daalen

  Big numbers make headlines, but they must also be treated with extreme caution

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  Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: Feature

  I am a child worker. Hear me

  Written by: The Concerned for Working Children All articles by The Concerned for Working Children

  Child 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: Feature

  Is school the solution to child labour? Not everywhere, and not for all children

  Written by: Mélanie Jacquemin All articles by Mélanie Jacquemin

  Ask 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: Analysis

  The dangerous lives of Dhaka’s child leather workers

  Written by: A.K.M. Maksud All articles by A.K.M. Maksud

  Making 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: Opinion

  Venture capital's place in the struggle against labour exploitation

  Written by: Ed Marcum All articles by Ed Marcum

  Written by: Dan Viederman All articles by Dan Viederman

  There’s a market for social change, so why not invest in it?

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  Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: Feature

  Time to recognise the rights of child workers

  Written by: Olivia Lecoufle All articles by Olivia Lecoufle

  Child 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: Opinion

  The massage parlour as a sacred space

  Written by: Esther K. All articles by Esther K.

  Poor 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: Analysis

  Exit denied: women losing the right to leave in the Philippines

  Written by: Maria Cecilia Hwang All articles by Maria Cecilia Hwang

  The global campaign against trafficking has proved more powerful than the constitution in the Philippines

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  Empower 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: Feature

  Working children claim their rights in Cameroon

  Written by: Wilfried Essomba Onguene All articles by Wilfried Essomba Onguene

  Society rarely respects child workers, but what happens when they demand it?

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  Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: Feature

  Are adults willing to listen to children on child labour?

  Written by: Claire O’Kane All articles by Claire O’Kane

  Written by: Ornella Barros All articles by Ornella Barros

  Working children have the right to policies informed by their views and best interests

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  Where is the solidarity for working girls?

  Written by: Janice Stiglich All articles by Janice Stiglich

  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: Feature

  My childhood as a child worker in Malawi

  Written by: Mavuto Banda All articles by Mavuto Banda

  Our author wouldn’t be where he is today if bans on child labour had prevented him from working when he needed to