Shelling Brazil nuts in Peru. CIFOR/Flickr. CC (by-nc-nd)
In August 2017, Beyond Trafficking and Slavery and the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW) co-organised a workshop in Bangkok to bring together academics, activists, and GAATW members from around the world to discuss issues of trafficking, forced labour and ‘modern slavery’.
In the course of this meeting I mentioned how regrettable it was that most of the articles produced by Beyond Trafficking and Slavery were available only in English. I had read many excellent pieces about complex issues there that I was sure would benefit the activists and policy makers in Latin America, if only Spanish versions were available. Their response was immediate and enthusiastic agreement. They shared my concern that their publishing takes place almost exclusively in English, and as it turns out had already been looking for opportunities to bring their core work into other languages. So we decided to work together to address this gap.
