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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryDespite progress gender-based violence and harassment is still a reality for global garment workersOnly putting workers in charge of enforcement will shift the needle.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe debts of undocumented Vietnamese migrants in EuropeDebt and trafficking were used to explain why 39 Vietnamese migrants were found dead in a lorry in Essex, but whom...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryLGBTQI+ asylum claimants face extreme social isolation in GermanyLGBTQI+ people seeking asylum in Germany are isolated, inadequately housed, and at risk of violence.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryRepressing sex work in France in the name of women’s rights and migrants’ controlFrance’s shift to the Nordic model of sex work is a sign of deeper issues lurking just beneath the surface.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe great Indian basic income debateBasic income has entered mainstream political discussion in India like nowhere else in the world. This is the story...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe uncertain fate of business and human rightsForefronting human rights in business is a tough sell, but doing anything less creates a lose-lose situation for everyone.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryWhen ‘business as usual’ costs lives: workers in Pakistan call for a binding safety agreementThe global garment industry meets in Pakistan this week, giving them a golden opportunity to accept the lessons of...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryCan you ‘see’ slavery? Black skins, brown skins, and the price of in/visibility in colonial India‘I know it when I see it’ is a problematic guiding principle for anti-slavery activities, yet it has been a feature...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryOnly the voices remained: a diary entry from ChiosOvercrowded, lacking vital supplies, and stinking of urine and garbage. I am ashamed.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryWhat we talk about when we talk about traffickingBeing a feminist anti-trafficking organisation means being against a lot of what passes for ‘anti-trafficking’ these days.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryReviving labour’s fortunes by centring the marginsLabour movements in Europe and the US should draw inspiration from migrant organising.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryWorkers’ rights in informal economiesThe world’s informal workers are constantly at risk of falling into poverty, but a burgeoning movement is searching...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryOrganising precarious workers in AfricaWorker organisations in Africa are beginning to cross the divide between the formal and informal economy.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryPrecarious workers need Asia’s unionsAsia’s unions could grow their power while helping informal and precarious workers to secure their labour rights,...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe struggle for work with dignity through broad campaigns and social alliancesImproving the lot of global supply chain workers involves not only organising local and migrant workers to pressure...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery‘Even my husband envies my freedom’A small basic income transformed the lives of these women in rural India. Imagine what it could do on a national scale.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryOrganising precarious workers: a view from the southA global labour movement is possible if traditional trade unions learn to see informal workers for the enormous...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryIn search of a sane economyCould degrowth, community, and basic income create a sane economy? An interview with one of the godfathers of the...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryWhy not give people money for nothing?Needing to work for your money is central to modern morality, but should it be? An interview with Liz Fouksman, a...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryBasic income, not tied benefits, for Australia’s First NationsCould a basic income finally bring an end to Australia’s paternalistic treatment of First Nations peoples? An...