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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe draft global compact on migration fails one of its guiding principles. Here is how to fix it.As delegates begin to debate Zero Draft of the Global Compact on Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration, they must be...
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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 SlaveryBrexit: a 'not welcome' sign for forced migrantsForced migrants are turning away from the UK for fear of racial discrimination post-Brexit. While some on the right...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryCalais after the jungle: migrant dispersal and the expulsion of humanitarianismFrench authorities are working hard to keep migrants either stationary and submissive or perpetually on the move in...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryDrowning mothersAs refugees try to cross the Mediterranean Sea - women are more likely to drown.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryPortrait of a Greek refugee campRefugee camps are neither all milk and honey nor are they all misery and suffering. To find a way forward, we must...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery“I never thought to come in Europe”: unpacking the myths of Europe’s ‘migration crisis’Europe’s failure to listen to people on the move has left it blind to why many people end up going there.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryPushing for safe passage in IrelandThe families of many Irish citizens and residents are stuck in war zones. Why won’t the state offer them safe passage?
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryWill “America first” mean refugees last?Regardless of if you look at United States, Europe, or the Pacific, the global asylum system is quickly falling apart.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryCrowdsourced humanitarianism and the fight for safe passageSocial media helped coordinate a volunteer response to the new arrivals on Lesvos when governments failed to step up...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryLeaving home to become a domestic workerFor women migrants from Bangladesh, education and technical skills can be real game changers.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryInterview: the cat and mouse game of creating ‘safe passage’As states fortify their external borders the calls for creating ‘safe passage’ are growing louder, yet the term is...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryGaps in global advocacy for the protection of migrants’ rightsMigrants have no dedicated advocate within the fractured landscape of the UN system. Could that be changed?
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryA new agenda for facilitating human mobility after the UN summits on refugees and migrantsMobility is key to development and prosperity, and with the proper vision we can make broader legal pathways for...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryInterview: preparing for climate and disaster migrationAs sea levels rise, lands dry out, and disasters linked to natural hazards become more common, more and more people...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryInterview: why do we think development will stop migration?States are increasingly incorporating development aid into their strategies for controlling migration. But is this...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe quiet resistance of domestic workers in LebanonThe migrant women working in Lebanese homes have little in the way of protection or rights, but they find ways to...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryInterview: how can better policy empower women on the move?Women experience migration different than men do, and with the right policies that can be a source of empowerment...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaverySafe passage: an integral component of the responsibility to protectThe world’s nations accepted the ‘responsibility to protect’ many years ago, but now they must live up to that...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryInterview: the dangerous invisibility of women migrantsWomen migrate all over the world to work or to escape violence, yet in comparison to male migrants they are barely...
