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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryFreeloaders, blackmailers and lost souls: rescued sex trafficking survivors in the hands of the assistance
Women rescued from traumatic experiences need empathy and emotional support. Too often, what they receive instead is...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryModern Vietnamese slaves in the UK: are raid and rescue operations appropriate?
The arbitrary and controversial categorisation of people as modern slaves in need of rescue does not reflect the...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryRescued from rights: the misogyny of anti-trafficking
For some sex workers subjected to forced ‘rescue’, the line between care and harm is very thin. What...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryUsing an intersectional approach to raid and rescue
Raid and rescue relies on a simplistic understanding of violence and vulnerability. If we are serious about ending...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryInterview: forced rescue and humanitarian trafficking
Many anti-trafficking oragnisations prioritise donor preferences over actually improving the lives of 'vitcims'.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryCritical reflections on raid and rescue operations in New Delhi
Accompanying a raid and rescue operation poses difficult questions for those involved, pushing the boundaries...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryRescue by ‘force’ or rescue by ‘choice’
The dividing line between consent and coercion, freedom and force, is far blurrier than many of us tend to think.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryBeyond ‘raid and rescue’: time to acknowledge the damage being done
Raid and rescue operations are widely portrayed as heroic efforts to save the innocent from the evil. But, as this...
Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job