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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryOne year after the Jungle: a wasteland of misery and last hopesPeople still live in the Jungle camp outside Calais, one year after the French police turned it into a wasteland....
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryHow not to achieve a sustainable development goalTurf wars, unrealistic targets, and misconceptions of the problem. What else could go wrong in the quest to end...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryMigration out of Senegal: ‘modern-day slave trade’ or long-held practice?The Senegalese have been moving to survive for centuries – only the routes have changed.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryWhy roundabout solutions to forced labour don’t workWithout policies that explicitly address structurally-induced vulnerabilities, we are likely to continue to fail in...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery40.3 million slaves: challenging the hypocrisy of modern slavery statisticsThe new estimates on modern slavery hide incontrovertible biases within them, but their weight will be used to...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryPortrait of an Indian labour activistFrom anti-imperial activism in the United States to garment sector organising in India, Anannya Bhattacharjee has...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryInformal, but organised: the 30-year success of the Self Employed Women's Association of IndiaComing together as a collective is a proven way to improve the pay and labour conditions for informal workers in India.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe social and political roots of exploitation in IndiaWhat is it that allows severe labour rights abuses to flourish in India? The answer is more complicated than poverty alone.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe presence of the past: lessons of history for anti-trafficking workThose fighting against modern slavery draw inspiration from the abolitionists of yesteryear, but their...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe UK, ‘modern slavery’, and the elephant in the room: preventionEurope hosts many examples of how to prevent exploitation in national labour markets. This EU Anti-Trafficking Day,...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryCould India support a basic income?After a successful pilot project in Madhya Pradesh the India Network for Basic Income is setting its sights higher.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryBasic income’s third waveThe drive toward a basic income isn’t new. It’s a 100-year-old movement that has gotten stronger each time...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaverySouthern perspectives on development: the missing link in discussions on modern slaveryIsn’t it strange that so few people who are assumed to be ‘modern slaves’ see themselves as such?
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryEight reasons why we shouldn’t use the term ‘modern slavery’The imperialist and racist undertones of ‘modern slavery’ should be troubling for anybody seeking to advance human...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery40.3 million slaves? Four reasons to question the new Global Estimates of Modern SlaveryThe new slavery estimates will guide international policy for years to come, which is why we need to start taking...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryOrganising the unorganised in IndiaWhen will the workers of India become sufficiently united to demand a change in terms?
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryCorporate social responsibility should start with giving workers a fair wageThe global garment and textile industry is worth billions. Why can't workers in Tamil Nadu get their fair share?
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryRegional organising and the struggle to set the Asia floor wageA global production system demands a global response from organised labour. Español
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryCan the world end forced labour by 2030?Alliance 8.7 needs to embrace a wholesale change in approach to forced labour if it is serious about tackling it in...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryMy body is my piece of landStories of migrant sex workers often cast human smugglers as the villains, yet the biggest evil many migrants face...
