The UK government is undermining decades of anti-slavery efforts
Rather than improving support for survivors, the UK is moving backwards in its response to modern slavery
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: AnalysisGovernment prepared to block modern slavery survivors to prevent ‘bogus’ claims
Once considered a crowning achievement for the Conservative party, the UK’s anti-slavery legislation has become a...
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: ReviewA sex worker reviews Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
The film claims to offer a progressive, sex-positive and feminist take on sex work. But is it good for sex workers?
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: OpinionIndia’s Supreme Court rules in favour of sex workers, and women rise up
Sex workers in Hyderabad rise up against their forced detention following court’s ruling
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: OpinionThere will never be another Mo Farah
As terrible as these revelations are, what’s more shocking is that he’d never receive that level of compassion today
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: OpinionUK Home Office launches new assault on the rights of modern slavery survivors
The UK Home Office seems to have a new project: help as few survivors of modern slavery as possible
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureTwo years on £38 a week: life inside the UK’s trafficking support system
Domestic workers inside the National Referral System at risk of new exploitation as they struggle to make ends meet
Stories of hope and violence from the border children of Juárez, Mexico
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: Feature'Only those we forget die': Losing a brother to smuggling gangs
Rodrigo used to smuggle people. Now he dreams of a life far from violence and poverty
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureHope lies on the other side of the border
Some children will go to great lengths to try to help their families
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureTo be the mother of smugglers: 'People judge children like my sons'
Caught between poverty and stigma, smuggling is one of the few jobs available for María's sons. And she's already...
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureWork and motherhood amidst the border violence
Multiple tragedies haven't stopped this teen mother from forging a new life for her family on the US-Mexico border
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: Feature'People will always find a way to get through': the children who work in smuggling
With few ways to earn income on the border, many young men turn to the dangerous but well-paid work of people smuggling
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureCrossing the US-Mexico border, just to see
Crossing the US-Mexico border is a lifeline for some. For others, it’s an adventure
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureSearching for hope in a smuggling town
Melly has spent her life assembling goods on the Mexican border. Will her son find a way out, or will he suffer as she has?
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureSmuggling people into the United States, 'you risk a lot'
This teenager smuggled people across the U.S.-Mexico border, but the death of a friend made him think again
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureIntroducing our series on children who smuggle
On the US-Mexico border, smuggling offers children a risky way to support their families in times of need
Why do children work? Stories from Ghana
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: Feature‘It is how I take care of myself’
Some children start work against their parents' wishes, and bans on child labour make it impossible to protect them...
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: Feature‘To learn a trade’
Many children see vocational training, not formal schooling, as the way to escape back-breaking work
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: Feature‘To become big men and women’
Schools are assumed to be the path to success, but what if the schools are bad, cruel, or don’t exist?
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureThe home economics of child labour
You can't stop child labour without confronting household poverty
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: Feature‘We have no helper in this world’
Inequality is at the core of child labour, so why isn’t redistribution seen as the solution?
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureTaken in the name of ‘rescue’: a child responds
Ghanaian children are being wrenched from their parents and put into care homes to ‘save’ them from work
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: Feature'To attain my future'
Many say that working children should be in school. But for many children, work is what gets them an education
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: Feature‘We will not have food to eat’
Child labour can’t be abolished through force. To address it, we must attend to why children work in the first place
A better approach to child work
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureAre adults willing to listen to children on child labour?
Working children have the right to policies informed by their views and best interests
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureMy childhood as a child worker in Malawi
Our author wouldn’t be where he is today if bans on child labour had prevented him from working when he needed to
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureBanning child labour jeopardises working children’s right to survive
Trying to ‘eliminate’ child labour only pushes working children into the shadows
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureChild labour: a shock absorber for economic precarity
The only way to reduce child labour in low-income countries is to make it easier for households to survive without it
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureTo be an Afghan child worker in Iran
More than a million Afghan children are trying to make their way in Iran. What could smooth the path for them?
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureEmpower and protect, rather than prohibit: a better approach to child work
Child labour isn’t going anywhere, so children’s safety in work must become the priority
Get off the fence on sex workers' rights
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: InterviewFreedom Network USA now supports sex workers’ rights
Jean Bruggeman goes deep to explain why her organisation is getting off the fence and is backing sex workers’ rights
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureFence-sitting and its discontents: the fear of taking a stand on sex work in the US
The terrain for sex worker activism in the United States has been shaped by the silence of those who fear the...
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureThere is no neutral position on whether sex work is work
'Neutrality’ is based on the assumptions of the anti-sex work camp, which makes abstention a political stance in its...
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureThe anti-trafficking movement has left sex workers behind
Anti-trafficking NGOs need to take a stance on sex work – or they will just keep harming us.
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: InterviewCriminalising sex workers’ clients makes trafficking worse
Andrew Wallis, the CEO of Unseen, tells us what he really thinks about attempts to introduce Nordic-style...
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureIt's time to get off the fence on sex workers’ rights
You cannot effectively combat human trafficking within the commercial sex sector without taking a stand on basic...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: AnalysisBorders, not traffickers, killed 46 people in Texas
From Essex to San Antonio, on land and at sea, migrants are suffering horrific deaths at the border. What’s it all for?
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureChild workers in Jordan shoulder effects of rising poverty levels
High rates of poverty and unemployment make plans to eliminate child labour in Jordan a pipe dream
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: AnalysisTo prevent trafficking in Israel, allow migrants to leave abusive employers
Israel’s National Action Plan to Combat Human Trafficking is blind to the root causes of exploitation. But there are...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureThe human cost of border deterrence
The price of preventing people from crossing borders is measured in lives lost
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: OpinionIs Johnson's Rwanda plan a crime against humanity?
Possibly, yes.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryA message to the ILO from the world's working children
The ILO wants to eliminate these children's livelihoods without their consent. They have something to say about that
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureDecent work for all, including migrants
What would a workers-first migration agenda look like?
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureWhat should the world do about climate migrants?
Climate change will compel many people to move in the coming decades. Are we ready?
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureIs the world delivering on the Global Migration Compact?
UN member states promised to create a system of ‘safe, orderly and regular migration’. Are they doing it?
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureBorder-crossing can pay the bills
Border crosser to border cop is a viable career path
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureWhy do children work? ‘We will not have food to eat’
When children work to survive, who can demand they stop?
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: AnalysisHow QAnon hijacks anti-trafficking, and what can be done about it
QAnon is here to stay but educators and advocates can mitigate its effects
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: AnalysisOne hundred days of refugee protest in Libya
Refugees in Libya rebelled in the face of widespread detention, abuse, and murder. The UN turned away, and then the...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: OpinionIs Kamila Valieva a victim of child trafficking?
Even when they are elite athletes and the prize is Olympic gold, exploiting minors is against international law
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: AnalysisThe truth about modern slavery offenders
Most people convicted of a trafficking or modern slavery offence are a long way from having Crime Boss on their CV
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: OpinionUnions call for more sanctions on anniversary of Myanmar’s coup
Sanctions worked the last time the military was in power. Can they again?
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: AnalysisPakistan’s wage struggle shows the fragility of progress in the global garment industry
Major fashion brands stay silent as devastating wage theft continues in their supply chains
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryVoices from the margins
First-hand writing from sex workers, domestic workers, migrant workers, and child workers
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: AnalysisMyanmar’s Spring Revolution: a history from below
Women factory workers took to the streets and catalysed a mass movement
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: AnalysisWorkers’ rights in Myanmar: a decade of fragile progress comes under threat
Labour protections were insufficient before the coup. Now the junta is rolling them back
