The anti-trafficking movement has left sex workers behind
Anti-trafficking NGOs need to take a stance on sex work – or they will just keep harming us.
To be a Congolese woman in Brazil
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureTo be a Congolese woman in BrazilNine women lay bare why they went to Brazil and what they experienced once they got there. Not all migration stories...
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: Feature‘We had to flee’Nine women lay bare why they went to Brazil and what they experienced once they got there. Not all migration stories...
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: Feature‘I was pregnant and had nowhere to go’Nine women lay bare why they went to Brazil and what they experienced once they got there. Not all migration stories...
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: Feature‘A lawyer in Congo and a maid in Brazil’Nine women lay bare why they went to Brazil and what they experienced once they got there. Not all migration stories...
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: Feature‘I cannot say that I experienced war as many people have’Nine women lay bare why they went to Brazil and what they experienced once they got there. Not all migration stories...
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: Feature‘The police showed up at our house’Nine women lay bare why they went to Brazil and what they experienced once they got there. Not all migration stories...
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: Feature‘Brazil was my dream country’Nine women lay bare why they went to Brazil and what they experienced once they got there. Not all migration stories...
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: Feature‘I take my hat off to the Brazilian woman’Nine women lay bare why they went to Brazil and what they experienced once they got there. Not all migration stories...
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: Feature‘There is everything in my country, but there was war there’Nine women lay bare why they went to Brazil and what they experienced once they got there. Not all migration stories...
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: Feature‘Men can say ‘This is a worthless woman,’ but I need to bring bread home’Nine women lay bare why they went to Brazil and what they experienced once they got there. Not all migration stories...
Domestic workers speak: a global fight for rights and recognition
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryDomestic workers speak: a global landscape of voices for labour rights and social recognitionLess than 20 years ago domestic workers began to demand rights and recognition. A new series shows that while...
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryOut from the shadows: domestic workers speak in the United StatesLong exempt from most labour protections, domestic workers in the United States can show an increasingly...
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery“And we continue to meet”: domestic workers stand up in FranceIn a realm where many employers ignore their responsibilities, domestic workers’ best chance is to empower themselves.
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryA chapter of our shared history: from servants to domestic workers in ItalyUnderstand domestic labour in Italy through the history of one of their oldest organisations, ACLI Colf.
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryFrom personal to political, and back: the story of the Filipino Women’s CouncilFor more than 25 years the Filipino Women’s Council in Italy has worked to improve the lives of their community....
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryJustice for domestic workers: it’s about rights, not protectionBritain’s drive to limit migration has removed many of the rights migrant domestic workers once had in the UK. Could...
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryWerk woorden - Words of labourA collection of terms from the ILO Convention 189 accompanied with stories from domestic workers.
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery“Our subaltern position is determined by the law!”: the struggle for visibility in SpainRecent developments in Spanish law have put domestic workers on a firmer footing, but there’s a long way to go...
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryOrganising domestic workers across Africa: a regional viewIn less than 10 years domestic workers in Africa have gone from barely any organisational contact to a thriving...
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryDomestic work is decent workA founder of the domestic workers movement in South Africa recounts the struggle for labour protections and rights...
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryMy experience as a domestic worker union leader in NairobiUnion officials alerted me to the wrongs happening in my own workplace. Now I campaign with them to promote the...
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryStory of a domestic worker in Africa: migrant, unionist and community leaderIt takes a lot of legwork to organise some of the world’s most invisible workers.
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe work is not undignified, but how you treat domestic workers isToday, through this text, I want to claim my rights and those of my compañeras. Español
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryHow do we make labour rights real?Domestic workers have achieved many gains in Colombia in the past years. Now they're setting their sights higher. Español
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery“A few steps forward, still a long way to go”: old issues, new movementsA critical approach to domestic work based on our lived experiences. Español
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryDignity and visibility for domestic workers: no longer workers in the shadow!The roots of prejudice against domestic workers in India run deep.
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe Filipino Kasambahay’s long struggle against invisibilityWith more than one million domestic workers in the Philippines there is massive potential for collective action....
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryBroken laws and unprotected workers: the conditions of foreign workers in TaiwanCare workers in Taiwan are being worked to the point of exhaustion, with dangerous consequences. Could basic rights...
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryWhen local and migrant domestic workers fight togetherCare workers put their hearts into the job. Is asking for recognition and rights in return too much?
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryLet’s write a contract and call me house manager: experiences of a workers’ cooperativeDomestic labourer are not recognised as workers under South Korean law, but worker-led initiatives are transforming...
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryFrom runaway domestic worker to organiser in SingaporeEndless chores, verbal abuse, and physical confinement.
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryClaiming rights under the kafala systemHow can domestic workers organise when the legal system places them at the complete mercy of their employers?
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and SlaverySisters in solidarity: the communal care of domestic workers in the Middle EastJordan has recognised domestic workers in local labour laws, but many workers are still stuck in dire situations...
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe difference self-organising makes: the creative resistance of domestic workersInformal networks of self-help and mutual care have given rise to a workers-led alliance in Lebanon to fight for the...
Sex workers speak: who listens?
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and SlaverySex workers speak: who listens?Across the world sex workers organise to resist abuse, exploitation, and trafficking. For two weeks we will air...
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryFor decriminalisation and justice: sex workers demand legal reform and social changeAusterity has increased poverty, particularly for women, while the rise of the far right has exacerbated hostilities...
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryWhat gives them the right to judge us?Chinese sex workers in Paris demand respect from those who had no right to take it away in the first place.
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryWe speak but you don’t listen: migrant sex worker organising at the borderThe sex workers’ movement demands full decriminalisation of sex work, but this will only help sex workers already...
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe French state against sex workers: a security and racist logicThe French state ostensibly sees sex workers as victims, but its combined legal framework positions them first and...
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryAt long last, listen to the women!State entrapment, extortion, imprisonment and slander sharpen the consciousness of sex workers who denounce...
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and SlaverySex work is a social and not a criminal issue!Sex workers in Italy banned together against abolitionist projects and managed to force support mechanisms for...
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and SlaverySex workers want peer knowledge, not state controlA proposed law in Germany pretends to help prostitutes by registering them, but it will only increase sex workers’...
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryTrafficking discourses and sex workers' mobilisation in eastern Europe and central AsiaSex workers in eastern Europe and central Asia resist their social exclusion and repression in many ways, but the...
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryWe don’t do sex work because we are poor, we do sex work to end our povertyMany Thai women become sex workers not because they are poor, but in order to escape poverty. In doing so they have...
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe creative protests of sex workers in ArgentinaSex work in Argentina is legal, but since 2011 the anti-trafficking agenda has increasingly threatened that status....
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and SlaverySex work activism in South Africa: a struggle for visibilityOrganising sex workers to protest injustice, create safe spaces, and support one another is a difficult job. One...
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe power of putas: the Brazilian prostitutes’ movement in times of political reactionFaced with regressive policies grounded in moral panics over sexual exploitation and trafficking, the Brazilian...
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and SlaverySouth Korea: sex workers fighting the law and law enforcement
South Korea introduced a raft of new laws against sex work in 2004. These repressive policies are now up for...