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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryA message to the ILO from the world's working childrenThe ILO wants to eliminate these children's livelihoods without their consent. They have something to say about that
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureDecent work for all, including migrantsWhat would a workers-first migration agenda look like?
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureWhat should the world do about climate migrants?Climate change will compel many people to move in the coming decades. Are we ready?
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureIs the world delivering on the Global Migration Compact?UN member states promised to create a system of ‘safe, orderly and regular migration’. Are they doing it?
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: Feature'Only those we forget die': Losing a brother to smuggling gangsRodrigo used to smuggle people. Now he dreams of a life far from violence and poverty
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureBorder-crossing can pay the billsBorder crosser to border cop is a viable career path
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureHope lies on the other side of the borderSome children will go to great lengths to try to help their families
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureTo be the mother of smugglers: 'People judge children like my sons'Caught between poverty and stigma, smuggling is one of the few jobs available for María's sons. And she's already...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureWork and motherhood amidst the border violenceMultiple tragedies haven't stopped this teen mother from forging a new life for her family on the US-Mexico border
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: Feature'People will always find a way to get through': the children who work in smugglingWith few ways to earn income on the border, many young men turn to the dangerous but well-paid work of people smuggling
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureCrossing the US-Mexico border, just to seeCrossing the US-Mexico border is a lifeline for some. For others, it’s an adventure
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureSearching for hope in a smuggling townMelly has spent her life assembling goods on the Mexican border. Will her son find a way out, or will he suffer as she has?
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureSmuggling people into the United States, 'you risk a lot'This teenager smuggled people across the U.S.-Mexico border, but the death of a friend made him think again
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureThe violent, hopeful world of children who smuggle peopleOn the US-Mexico border, smuggling offers children a risky way to support their families in times of need
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureWhy do children work? ‘It is how I take care of myself’Some children start work against their parents' wishes, and bans on child labour make it impossible to protect them...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureWhy do children work? ‘To learn a trade’Many children see vocational training, not formal schooling, as the way to escape back-breaking work
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureWhy do children work? ‘To become big men and women’Schools are assumed to be the path to success, but what if the schools are bad, cruel, or don’t exist?
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureThe home economics of child labourYou can't stop child labour without confronting household poverty
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureWhy do children work? ‘We have no helper in this world’Inequality is at the core of child labour, so why isn’t redistribution seen as the solution?
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureTaken in the name of ‘rescue’: a child respondsGhanaian children are being wrenched from their parents and put into care homes to ‘save’ them from work