Rights Talk and Domestic Work
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Read Now: Human Trafficking and “Red Carpet Feminism”
A commentary by Noy Thrupkaew on the “Women in the World” summit. Read the full article on the Open Society Foundation website here.
read moreListen Now: Ending Demand to End Sex Trafficking: Does it Work?
For the past decade, the U.S. government has devoted a great deal of attention and resources to combating human trafficking, particularly into the sex sector. Now, policymakers are taking a new look at campaigns to end the demand for sexual services as a way to curtail trafficking. But are such approaches successful? The Open Society Foundations and the Women and Law Program at the American University Washington College of Law will host an expert panel discussion to explore the available evidence. Are prohibition policies on sex work...
read moreListen Now: Sex Trafficking Myths Reconsidered
2010 was the tenth anniversary of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act. In a recorded discussion, former Open Society Fellow Noy Thrupkaew assessed the successes and failures of U.S. trafficking policy over that period. Drawing on examples from a trip to Cambodia, the case study offers both cautionary tales and the possibility of innovative engagement and partnerships between government, civil society actors, and human rights activists. Thrupkaew’s fellowship project looked at the unintended consequences of the conflation of...
read moreRead Now: The Crusade Against Sex Trafficking by Noy Thrupkaew
The first of a two-part series on trafficking Thrupkaew published in the October 5, 2009 edition of The Nation. Get the article here: The Crusade Against Sex Trafficking.
read moreRead Now: Running from the Rescuers by Gretchen Soderlund
This article analyzes recent developments in U.S. anti-sex trafficking rhetoric and practices. In particular, it traces how pre-9/11 abolitionist legal frameworks have been redeployed in the context of regime change from the Clinton to Bush administrations. In the current political context, combating the traffic in women has become a common denominator political issue, uniting people across the political and religious spectrum against a seemingly indisputable act of oppression and exploitation. However, this essay argues that feminists...
read moreRead Now: Beyond Rescue by Noy Thrupkaew
The second article in Thrupkaew’s series in The Nation. Published on October 26, 2009. Find the article here: Beyond Rescue.
read more“Where’s the Accountability?”
Since the implementation of the Human Trafficking Protocol in 2003 the UN Office of Drugs and Crime estimates that the numbers of States with dedicated national anti-trafficking legislation has doubled (Global Report on Trafficking in Persons, UNODC, 2009, p. 8); 143 States are now parties to the Protocol. Alongside governmental policy development in this field civil society has also entered the arena, including celebrities, major media operations, NGOs and often competing inter-governmental organisations. Consequently the...
read moreDisciplining Globalization: International Law, Illegal Trade, and the Case of Narcotics by Chantal Thomas
This Article is the first in a series of studies of the globalization of illicit markets. My theses are as follows: First, the increase in international trade in illicit products and services parallels the growth in international trade more generally that accompanies the phenomenon of globalization. Second, at the same time that most international trade law has moved toward a posture of liberalization, there has been a movement to strengthen the prohibition and punishment of trade in illicit transactions. Third, the mechanisms that have...
read moreGlobalization and the Reproduction of Hierarchy by Chantal Thomas
Over the past decade, the federal government has increasingly taken steps to lift barriers to trade and financial flows into and out of the United States. This liberalization of U.S. economic barriers has been mirrored by similar efforts of governments around the world. These steps, together with gains in technology, have ushered in an era of “globalization.”‘ The global liberalization of economic flows, according to classical economic theory, should maximize the efficient allocation of world resources and generate benefits...
read moreCongratulations to Anne Gallagher, AO!
Congratulations to Dr. Anne Gallagher, who was recently honored for her pathbreaking work on human trafficking. On June 11, 2012, Dr. Gallagher was named an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in the Queen’s Jubilee Birthday Honours list, in recognition of Dr. Gallagher’s “distinguished service to the law and to human rights as a practitioner, teacher and scholar, particularly in the areas of human trafficking responses and criminal justice.” Earlier this year, Australian Minister for Home Affairs and Justice...
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