Life Interrupted: Trafficking into Forced Labor in the United States
Life Interrupted: Trafficking into Forced Lab or in the United States is a newly released book by Denise Brennan, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Georgetown University. Life Interrupted follows the lives of survivors of trafficking in the United States. It documents the ordinary tasks of settling into a new country after extraordinary abuse. At once scholarly and accessible, her book links these firsthand accounts to global economic inequities and...
Read MoreThink Again: Prostitution
Project member Aziza Ahmed has penned a terrific piece in the latest issue of Foreign Policy: “Think Again: Prostitution — Why zero tolerance makes for bad policy on world’s oldest profession.” You can view the article online here.
Read MoreTrust Women Conference
Two of our Project members – Anne Gallagher and Martina Vandenberg – recently participated in the annual Trust Women conference. The text of Anne Gallagher’s keynote address, entitled “Human Trafficking: From outrage to action” can be found...
Read MoreTrafficking Infrastructure Grows: New York’s Statewide Initiative
In the past month, the State of New York has introduced 11 new Human Trafficking Intervention Courts (including Buffalo and Rochester, near where I live in upstate NY). According to the New York Times, the new courts are modeled after three pilot projects that had been established earlier in New York City, and the “initiative is believed to be the first of its kind in the nation.” The NY law resembles the federal U.S. law in targeting force, fraud and coercion (what the national...
Read MoreTrafficking Infrastructure Grows: New York’s Statewide Initiative
In the past month, the State of New York has introduced 11 new Human Trafficking Intervention Courts (including Buffalo and Rochester, near where I live in upstate NY). According to the New York Times, the new courts are modeled after three pilot projects that had been established earlier in New York City, and the “initiative is believed to be the first of its kind in the nation.” The NY law resembles the federal U.S. law in targeting force, fraud and coercion (what the national...
Read MoreThe International Law of Human Exploitation: Convergence or Confusion?
Marking the seventh annual EU Anti-Trafficking Day and the launch of Switzerland’s first annual Anti-Human Trafficking Week, earlier today, the UN Special Rapporteur on Trafficking and the UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery hosted a panel discussion/debate to discuss the state of international law related to trafficking in persons and various forms of human exploitation, including slavery, servitude, forced labour, and debt bondage. Project Participant Anne Gallagher...
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