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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryMandatory transparency, discretionary disclosureNew transparency regulations in some places theoretically require companies to report on forced labour in their...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryIs the UK a world leader in the fight against modern slavery?The UK’s Modern Slavery Act was meant to put Britain at the forefront of the fight against modern slavery, but its...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryWorld Bank investment on Assam’s tea plantations: hearing the voices of workers?The forthcoming release of a World Bank investigation into rights violations of tea plantation workers in Assam...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe United Nations should promote the rule of lawInternational agencies and United Nations bodies are increasingly admitting their failings in the international...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryOpen essay: a better approach to child workAs the UN considers its position on child labour, a global group of experts lay out the case against a universal...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaverySophie's journey: three countries, three stories, same abuseFemale migrant labourers face discrimination and marginalisation all over the world. Sophie’s stories from Dubai,...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaverySex workers fight against compulsory registration and identification in GermanyGermany's parliament will likely pass new legislation today that severely infringes on sex worker rights and...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryEmpty gestures: a critique of India’s new trafficking billThe 2016 Global Slavery Index finds that 40% of ‘modern slaves’ live in India. A new trafficking bill seeks to lower...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryWhat’s wrong with the World Day Against Child Labour?Working children everywhere reject the mainstream anti-child labour paradigm. A major new video campaign tells us why.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryResponse to Human Rights Watch's letter on minimum-age standards with respect to child labourAs the UN considers its position on child labour, a group of academics and practitioners have engaged in open debate...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThree years after Rana Plaza: why Bangladeshi workers need trade unionsHuge numbers of Bangladeshis receive poverty wages to produce the garments worn in the west, yet organising remains...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryLittle tolerance for zero tolerance: prostitution reform in ScotlandA new bill seeks to shift Scotland from zero tolerance of prostitution to full decriminalisation. Can it...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryPhone a friend? Exploring a new helpline for trafficked persons in the UKThe UK home secretary’s announcement of a new anti-trafficking helpline distracts from that government policies that...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryOpen letter: on the lives of street childrenAs a UN committee continues to draft a 'general comment on the rights of adolescents', academics working with street...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaverySupporting working children as social, political, and economic agentsPeru’s movement of working children offers a visionary model for collaborative, caring, and egalitarian communities...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryCan campaigns to stop child labour be stopped?Working children’s organisations have had limited success in challenging dominant abolitionist perspectives on child...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryDhaka's 'victims of trafficking': locked up for their "own good"The paradoxes built into the ‘rescue and rehabilitation’ model effectively trap many women and girls after they have...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe women strike back: the protest of Pembillai Orumai tea workersUnderclass women plantation workers in Kerala, India went on strike against both their union and their company,...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryWhen services allow organising, trafficked workers winMigrant workers need rights and safety nets, yet sob stories of abuse will not bring about such change. Organising,...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryMigrant workers and labour recruitment in MexicoThe Coalition of Temporary Workers is fighting back against abusive recruitment practices in Sinaloa, Mexico,...
