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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryGetting through the front door: public awareness campaigns as an essential first step in the fight against human traffickingCampaigns to raise public awareness have limitations, but they are also constantly being refined and improved. They...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryMarketing mass hysteria: anti-trafficking awareness campaigns go rogueEfforts to raise awareness about human trafficking contribute to a save and rescue rhetoric that helps little, yet...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryCampaign culture matters: Bringing together awareness and evidenceIt can be hard to say what works, but we need an enduring commitment to empowerment and self-liberation rather than...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryLinking information and action in the fight against human traffickingPublic awareness campaigns targeting human trafficking must link comprehensive information with a well-researched...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryRaising awareness: of what? for what? by whom? for whom?While broad-scale awareness raising tactics have succeeded in generating public interest in human trafficking, they...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryWithout knowledge there can be no progress in the fight against modern slaveryWe will never be able to combat modern forms of slavery if people aren’t aware that modern slavery exists.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryIntroduction: do the hidden costs outweigh the practical benefits of human trafficking awareness campaigns?Raising awareness campaigns may be motivated by good intentions, but how much do they actually accomplish? What are...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryLook beneath the surface: a public health approach to raising awareness and ending human traffickingTo be truly effective, public awareness campaigns must be combined with calls to action, such as the successful...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryRich in funds but short on facts: the high cost of human trafficking awareness campaignsEfforts to raise public awareness of human trafficking are ineffective at best and counterproductive at worst. They...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryE-LibraryReports, policy briefs, and special collections as PDFs.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe two-fronted fight of sex workers against traffickingSex workers are caught between exploitation in the industry and the misguided policies designed to help them.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryIn the drivers’ seat: why the ILO should care about the commuteHarassment on the way to and from work is part of the job for many women. It doesn't have to be.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryA global solution to end violence and harassment at workThe ILO is concluding negotiations on a new international law that would finally make employers and governments...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryCan we really spot slavery from space?The University of Nottingham hopes to find slaves in India by looking for brick kilns in satellite imagery....
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaverySearching for the entrance to France’s ‘prostitution exit programme’The French Prostitution Act offers the country’s sex workers a way out, but the programme is picky about who it accepts.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryTrying to soften the landing for returning migrantsSome migrants are either not allowed or not willing to stay abroad. Learning how to best support their return is a process.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryRights not rescue for migrant sex workersThe criminalisation of clients does nothing to protect sex workers from police harassment, border guards, racism,...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryMy mother, the marriage migrantPeople looked down on my mother because she used marriage to create a better life for us overseas. What's so...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryTalking trafficking with Jamaican sex workersSex workers face more abuse from clients and police than from ‘traffickers’, but addressing that would mean...