Listen 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...
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...
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...
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.
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