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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryOpen the cities, open the harbours
Opposing the Italian state’s shipwrecks and the kidnapping of migrants in the Mediterranean.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryWhen workers lead on enforcing labour standards: a case study of Electronics Watch
Electronics Watch is pioneering a way to safeguard workers’ rights in the electronics industry by working with...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryReflections on World Refugee Day
For one refugee, World Refugee Day is a stark reminder of the world's collective failure.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe criminal law as sledgehammer: the paternalist politics of India’s 2018 Trafficking Bill
India's new trafficking bill relies exclusively on the stick to achieve its goals. It will fail.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryTranslating Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: the backstory
The Global Alliance against Traffic in Women (GAATW) has worked for months to bring much of Beyond Trafficking and...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryBig brands: the missing voice in the fight to end gender-based violence at work
New research shows why multinational corporations should support a ILO convention to stop gender-based violence in...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryIs the Global Compact for Migration truly doing justice to gender?
The Global Compact for Migration is supposed to put gender concerns front and centre, but as the negotiations draw...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaverySexual harassment at Walmart’s stores and suppliers in China
Neither CSR nor local laws are protecting the workers in Walmart’s supplier factories from exploitation and...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryIt comes with the job: how brands share responsibility for mass faintings in Cambodian garment factories
The people making clothes for export in Cambodia are fainting at their posts. Why?
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThree lessons the labour movement must learn from the Fight for 15 at Walmart
Social media, the power of reputational damage, and effective communications are powerful tools for trade union organising.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryA call for the revival of political and economic education
Political and economic education is pitiful, and via political parties, the education system and trade unions, it...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryEmbracing data is key to the future of unions
Learning to read and predict our changing environment through strategic use of data is crucial for the survival of...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryBuilding up the bundle of sticks: new ideas for union organising
A mini-series of blogs, published by SPERI and openDemocracy, will present new ideas for how unions can organise and...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryNameless and un-mourned: identifying migrant bodies in the Mediterranean
The human right to identity of countless undocumented migrant bodies is being disregarded by the inadequate body...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryFrom #metoo to a global convention on sexual harassment at work
We need a binding global convention on violence and harassment in the world of work.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryPlaying games with child trafficking in India
The computer game (UN)TRAFFICKED puts the fate of a 13-year-old potential trafficking victim in the player’s hands,...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryWhy is Ireland still placing people detained for immigration-related purposes in prisons?
Research from Nasc sheds light on the treatment of those refused ‘leave to land’ at Irish borders and individuals...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe impact of the 'Swedish model' in France: chronicle of a disaster foretold
What happens when policymakers are guided by their biases, instead of the voices of the people they are trying to help?
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryNo loopholes, no exceptions
Domestic workers and farmworker women join forces to end sexual violence in their industries, leaving no one behind.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaverySubcontracting and forced labour in Italy: a tale of depoliticised labour relations
In Italy, discourses around labour subcontracting in the agricultural sector serve an important purpose: obscuring...