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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryFrom anonymity to recognition: domestic workers organise in FranceWhile unions in France have made significant strides in the advancement of domestic workers’ labour rights, the...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryEn quête de reconnaissance: les travailleurs domestiques se mobilisent en FranceMalgré les avancements importants accomplis par le mouvement syndical en France, le gouvernement français se doit de...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe precarity of domestic workers in MexicoMexican domestic workers face precarious protections and a lack of legal recognition, despite international efforts...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryHome: a black hole for workers’ rightsWhy are governments and populations so resistant to treating cleaners and carers as workers?
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryAllies or co-conspirators: what does the domestic workers’ movement need?Improving labour conditions within individual work relationships is not enough. We need to strive for systemic...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryDispelling myths: why domestic employer-worker solidarity is not so far-fetchedImportant research from California shows that many employers have more in common with the domestic workers they...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryIt takes two to tango: how employers can help formalise the domestic work sectorDomestic workers are organising and educating employers on how to be better allies in the fight for domestic workers...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryBeyond individual responsibility: what domestic employers need to knowHousehold employers need to understand the roots of their asymmetrical work relationships before they can be allies...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryAllies or obstacles? The role of domestic employers in ColombiaFemale domestic workers in Colombia have led a long struggle for their rights as workers. It’s up to employers to...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryPotential avenues for domestic employer-worker solidarity in the PhilippinesFrom passive observers to active members in the fight for domestic workers rights, domestic employers in the...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryBeyond ‘maids and madams’: can employers be allies in new policies for domestic workers’ rights?Workers have led significant campaigns the fight for domestic workers rights. But what about employers? How can they...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryA win-win scenario? The fight for domestic workers’ rights benefits employers tooEmployers can be key actors in the struggle for decent work for domestic workers, and this does not need to be...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryUnderstanding the interpersonal and the structural context of domestic workDomestic employer-worker relationships can be difficult, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Español
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryHow President Trump is fueling Honduran migration northWhy is the United States supporting an authoritarian regime in Honduras that is bulldozing democracy and human...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryIn lieu of a silver bullet: #metoo in the global workplaceWhen we talk about gender-based violence in the world of work, we need to talk about non-white, non-wealthy women too.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryCivil society and the clampdown on freedomsThe space for effective action is narrowing for civil society organisations, and many groups fear repercussions when...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryA tale of two conferences: exploring the politics of global child labour policiesTwo international conferences on child labour were held in South America this fall. In one working children...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryMigration in the time of empireMillions migrated to work the plantations following the abolition of slavery in the British and French empires. Like...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryBitter grapes? Slavery, labour, and memory in the Cape winelandsSouth Africa’s vineyards have been accused of practicing ‘modern-day slavery’, but few ask why exploitative...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryLibyan outrage: slavery or borders?A recent CNN video of an apparent ‘slave auction’ in Libya has caused horror on social media, but the term slavery...
