There are over 2 million domestic workers in the Philippines, but many of them continue to face the same problems as their peers around [...]
Source: Open Democracy
Pandemic worsens exploitation of migrant farmworkers in Greece
Undocumented migrant workers that provide the bulk of seasonal labor in Greece’s strawberry farms have reported suffering increased [...]
U.K. immigration bill obscures reality of trafficking offenders
In an opinion piece for openDemocracy, researchers Rose Broad and David Gadd explore how the U.K.’s controversial Nationality and [...]
How changing U.K. drug laws could prevent child exploitation
The U.K. is struggling with a serious child exploitation crisis with children as young as seven being used on the frontlines of drug [...]
Domestic Worker Organizing in France for C189
France has made great progress in advancing domestic workers’ rights through union organizing, but the government still has yet [...]
Sex workers continue to be excluded from anti-trafficking movement
Writing in openDemocracy’s Palermo Protocol 20th anniversary special last week, the International Committee on the Rights of Sex [...]
Listening to child workers to understand child labor
Children’s experiences of work and the effects of anti-trafficking interventions are explored in openDemocracy’s new series [...]
Unsubstantiated claims endanger trafficking victims
The U.K.’s Home Secretary Suella Braverman has repeatedly come under fire for making baseless claims about modern slavery and human [...]
The Labor Protests Overshadowing Chinese New Year
While many think of Chinese New Year as a time for parades and colorful fireworks, for thousands of Chinese construction workers the [...]
Domestic workers fight back: everyday victories and stories of defiance
In the face of overwork and wage theft, Sara, a domestic worker in Beirut, recalls how her employer demanded receipts and counted every [...]
Will states stick by safe migration commitments?
The UN’s first International Migration Review Forum (IMRF) got underway this week, a platform to assess how member states are [...]
Post-World Cup, wage theft still a problem in Qatar
“The charade is over now. The spectacle is long done. But plenty of migrant workers remain in Qatar. And they are still [...]
The “Raid and Rescue” Model of India’s 2018 Anti-Trafficking Bill
Indian Minister for Women & Child Development Smt Maneka Gandhi is likely to table India’s new anti-trafficking bill in the [...]
Victims categorized under ‘unknown exploitation’ less likely to access support
Potential victims of trafficking referred to the U.K.’s system for identifying people who have experienced trafficking – the National [...]
Border law leads to 53 dead in Texas tragedy
53 people have now died from hyperthermia trapped in a sealed truck found in Texas, 160 miles from the U.S. Mexico border where outside [...]
Survivor engagement: on turning rhetoric into practice
In the anti-trafficking sector, a high value is often placed on survivors’ stories and first-hand accounts of trafficking and modern [...]
Worker-driven solutions end slavery in electronics
Photo credit: ILO/Asrian Mirza A quarter of the world’s manufacturing is for the electronics sector. It employs millions of [...]
Does venture capitalism harm more than help anti-trafficking efforts?
Contributors at openDemocracy have begun a policy debate on the effects of philanthrocapitalism on the anti-trafficking field. Venture [...]
U.K. must stop penalizing victims for crimes they were forced to commit, says TIP report
The U.K. is failing to provide adequate support for trafficking victims, according to the 2022 Trafficking in Persons report. The [...]
Surveillance & data gathering by big tech is endangering trafficking survivors
When a survivor panellist at Amazon’s Tech Against Trafficking Summit in Seattle last year explained how data sharing with law [...]
Anti-Trafficking Policy Makers “Do Not Want to Disrupt Power Relationships”
Why do so many interventions to stop human trafficking fail? Because politicians are less interested in adopting policies that [...]
How we talk about modern slavery matters
Is modern slavery a disease like the coronavirus? Is it a “stain” on otherwise spotless companies’ reputations? Dr. Ras and [...]
Sex workers in India protest against harmful anti-trafficking efforts
Earlier this year, India’s Supreme Court officially defined sex work as a profession, calling for an end to police violence against sex [...]
From self-styled modern slavery leader to abandoning trafficking victims – what happened?
The U.K. has just passed the Illegal Migration Act into law in a devastating attack on the rights of migrants, refugees, and [...]