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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe ‘Danish model’ of exploiting migrant workersThe ‘Danish model’ is thought to have strong worker safeguards, but exploitation is still seeping in through the cracks
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: InterviewHow we got here: the story of the Palermo protocol on trafficking'Human trafficking' didn't have to mean what it now does. This is the story of how it got its definition, as told by...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryHow companies talk about modern slaveryLarge companies in the UK are required by law to state what they’re doing about modern slavery. The way they talk...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryPrivate giving for anti-trafficking hides government inactionPhilanthropy in anti-trafficking has brought about important change. But it has also allowed governments to avoid...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe catalysing power of philanthropy in anti-traffickingA few large donors forced a step change in anti-trafficking work when they began to collaborate a few years ago. Now...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe blindness of using venture capital to fight human traffickingVenture capital relies on market-based solutions to maximise short-term gains. That is no way to address worker exploitation.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureHow has philanthrocapitalism helped or hurt the anti-trafficking movement?The injection of billions of dollars of private capital into anti-trafficking work has changed the field. Is that a...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryListening to working children is a legal obligation – not a choiceIf the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour truly seeks to help working children then policymakers...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe victims of ‘unknown exploitation’ hiding within the UK National Referral MechanismPotential victims of human trafficking are falling through the cracks of the UK’s National Referral Mechanism. The...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryOpen letter: change course on the International Year for the Elimination of Child LabourChild labour will not end in 2021, and trying to eliminate it will only endanger working children further. Over 100...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryWage theft: the missing middle in exploitation of migrant workersEnsuring that migrants are paid properly for their work would do more good than anti-trafficking ever will.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryLabour migrants’ struggle to subvert anti-trafficking interventions in NepalFor the targets of anti-trafficking measures, they are just one more obstacle to overcome.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryCOVID has blurred the lines between waged, coerced and trafficked labour in IndiaLabourers in India barely made ends meet before the pandemic. Many are now facing catastrophe.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryBreaking down exploitation under the Palermo protocolExploitation comes in many forms, so it's important to be precise about what we mean when we use it.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryListen to the experts! Domestic workers fight tied visas in the United KingdomMedia portrayals of domestic workers commonly feature extreme examples of abuse, obscuring the distinctive expertise...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house: time to rethink the Palermo protocolThe governments who championed Palermo are never going to trade law enforcement for social justice and human rights....
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryINTERVIEW: Some observations on the anti-trafficking fieldTwo decades since Palermo and we are still missing the wood of exploitation and injustice for the trees of anti-trafficking.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryIt isn’t just anti-trafficking: we must always ask whose interests we really serveSpace for critical reflection and engagement is shrinking across the NGO sector. The tactical dilemmas presented by...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryAre you better or worse off? Understanding exploitation through comparisonLife rarely features binary choices between forced or free labour. The far more common question is, ‘are you worse...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe art of using supply chains to defend worker rightsThe Fair Food Program protects farmworkers by closing the accountability loophole in the tomato supply chain. But...