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Twenty years of slow progress: Is anti-trafficking changing?

Two decades in, Anti-Trafficking Review’s editor says maybe activists still don’t understand social change

By Borislav Gerasimov
Twenty years of slow progress: Is anti-trafficking changing?
An activist speaks to highlight indigenous victims at a campaign against human trafficking in December 2024, in Edmonton, Canada | Artur Widak/NurPhoto/Getty Images. All rights reserved
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To mark our tenth anniversary, we are releasing a new feature which reflects on how the anti-trafficking field has evolved, and where it might be – or should be – going in the future. As part of this project we sat down with Borislav Gerasimov, editor of the Anti-Trafficking Review, published by the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women. The conversation focused on what’s changed – and what hasn’t – in the last two decades, and opportunities for radical future transformation.

Joel Quirk (BTS): You’ve worked in anti-trafficking for over 20 years. What was the field like when you started?

Borislav Gerasimov: I started working as a technical officer for a women’s rights organisation in Bulgaria in 2001. The organisation was working broadly on domestic violence, sexual violence and trafficking.

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