Pouring New Wine into Old Bottles: Understanding the Dilemmas of Contemporary Trafficking Work by Alice Miller
This short essay explores the dilemmas faced by anti-trafficking activists working to bring human rights to bear. Although the essence of ‘trafficking’ is most often framed as about gender, sexual harm, and prosecution of ‘traffickers’, effective rights interventions in ‘trafficking’ must be situated in a deeper understanding of the modern reality of globalization. While I am not arguing that understanding gender or sexual harm are irrelevant in anti-trafficking work,...
Read MoreSEXUALITY, VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN, AND HUMAN RIGHTS: Women Make Demands and Ladies Get Protection by Alice Miller
Although women’s rights advocates came to human rights demanding accountability for all human rights, this demand has been stymied. Specific elements of violence against women (VAW) as a human rights issue, coupled with sexual harm’s particular operation to make VAW visible, produced a parodox: the harms themselves are not yet effectively responded to, yet women’s sexual vulnerability is now firmly on the global agenda. This piece explores the state-oriented focus of rights...
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