As the UN considers its position on child labour, a group of academics and practitioners have engaged in open debate with Human Rights Watch over the utility of minimum age rules. This is the third letter in a series.
Without documents, much of the history of the enslaved is lost. Digitisation offers a way to preserve rapidly deteriorating documents, but how does one actually set up a large-scale digitisation project? Español
Recent international legal developments that appear to strengthen efforts to combat forced labour – such as the ILO’s 2014 Forced Labour Protocol – actually solidify governments’ right to exploit.
El trabajo infantil en América Latina es una realidad cotidiana. Con motivo del primero de Mayo, organizaciones de niños y niñas y adolescentes trabajadores (NATs) reclaman que se reconozca esta realidad, y se regulen sus derechos en vez de combatirlos.
Huge numbers of Bangladeshis receive poverty wages to produce the garments worn in the west, yet organising remains strangely absent in this industry.
Representations of girls often place a premium on sexual purity and sexual violation, and nation-states are either condemned or praised depending on how they protect ‘vulnerable’ girls.
A new bill seeks to shift Scotland from zero tolerance of prostitution to full decriminalisation. Can it successfully make the transition to the New Zealand model?
To understand violence we must speak to those who commit violence. Conducting research in conflict zones is challenging, and to do it well we must challenge the dictums found in methods handbooks.
Online discussions on support websites, in which geographically dispersed people communicate about shared concerns, can yield valuable data for fieldwork when looked at correctly.
Thousands of migrants in Europe are prisoners of border controls. They ask, 'are we not human?' Is it utopian to answer yes, and that we need to open the borders? English
The UK home secretary’s announcement of a new anti-trafficking helpline distracts from that government policies that prevent the effective identification and support of ‘trafficked’ persons.
In a world where the hard-won gains of the labour movement are being gradually eroded, International Workers' Day isn’t a time for celebration. It’s a time to reflect, re-strategise, and reorganise.
