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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryMissed opportunities and exclusion: sex workers reflect on two decades of anti-traffickingThe Palermo Protocol has targeted sex workers since day one, and whenever sex workers having spoken up against it...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryMarx on exploitation: an ABC for an unequal worldExploitation begins with the terms on which workers sell their labour power to capital. Marx saw that 140 years ago,...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe Palermo Protocols at 20: a missed opportunity for ending traffickingNobody at the top has been interested in tackling the real causes of exploitation.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryTwenty years after Palermo, can we stop discussing labour exploitation and start fixing it?The Palermo Protocol triggered a long debate around what constitutes exploitation and trafficking, but what we need...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryAnti-trafficking is an inside jobStates ‘combat trafficking’ to put a humanitarian face on their punitive anti-immigration policies. For this reason...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryAre our laws cut out for addressing systemic exploitation?As a matter of political tactics, implementation of existing legislation should be re-oriented according to human...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryExploitation is the rule, not the exceptionThe UN trafficking protocol defined the crime so broadly that it accidentally described capitalism itself.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryINTERVIEW: Why does Freedom United use the term ‘modern slavery’?‘Modern slavery’ is a vague but powerful rallying call. To use it is a choice that must be made with care.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryTwenty years of trafficking: taking stock of the world the Palermo Protocol builtThis anniversary feature explores two of the core questions dividing the field today: are we better off on the...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryWhat is exploitation anyway?Exploitation remains undefined in international law, and this has consequences for the exploited people that...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryAre we better off on the inside? Modern slavery and human trafficking as platforms for political mobilisationDo the practical and political benefits of taking up the cause of ending modern slavery and human trafficking...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryLong read: How the Nordic model in France changed everything for sex workersIn 2019, 10 sex workers were killed in France in the span of six months. Critics say that the Nordic model and its...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryA lorry-load of corpses in Essex, but no trafficking charges in courtPoliticians were quick to label the discovery of 39 dead migrants in Essex in 2019 as trafficking, but that’s not...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryBasic income could virtually eliminate poverty in the United Kingdom at a cost of £67 billion per yearIntuition is wrong when it comes to calculating the true cost of basic income – the UK can easily afford it.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryIs the UN about to change how states address trafficking in women and girls?A UN committee is about to issue a general recommendation on suppressing traffic in women and girls. Done right it...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaverySocial distancing between the state and poor migrants in IndiaMany of India’s internal migrants will die this summer because of how the state has handled this crisis.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe aspirations and vulnerabilities of migrants in VentimigliaMigration policy can exact a human cost, but it rarely breaks migrants’ will to aspire.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryNo way to find home: common stories of Eritreans in Italy and the NetherlandsRefugees cannot start a new life if they are not allowed to create homes for themselves.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryHow counsellors convince asylum seekers to accept ‘voluntary return’Rejected asylum seekers are often told they can be deported or go home willingly. But are these really the only options?
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery‘You feel like in prison here’: imagining a future in Lebanon through Syrian eyesSometimes keeping going is the only way refugees maintain hope.