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Forced Into Prostitution — and Denied a Lifeline, by Florrie Burke

Posted by on Oct 2, 2013 in Our Opinions, The Blog | Comments Off

This article was cross-posted from the Huffington Post. I’m an advocate for victims of human trafficking, and I’ve witnessed a lot of pain and suffering. But I’ll never forget the day I met two teenage girls at a District Attorney’s office the day after they escaped a brothel. As the girls sat there clutching the teddy bears that are usually given to children, they told me they had been forced to have sex with multiple men without condoms. One of the girls described a...

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Call for Papers: Following the Money: Spending on Anti-Trafficking, Anti-Trafficking Review, Special Issue

Posted by on Sep 27, 2013 in The Blog | Comments Off

Issue 3 to be published in 2014 Deadline for Submission: 15 December 2013 Anti-trafficking funding and work has mushroomed since the 1990s. Lacking is analysis of those anti-trafficking funds – where they come from, who they go to, what they are meant to do, what they actually achieve, and indeed whether they are needed. Donors, organisations and trafficked persons’ priorities are not always aligned when it comes to how to spend money. In a first indication of a global mismatch...

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How was Sex Trafficking “Eradicated” in Israel?

Posted by on Jul 1, 2013 in The Blog | Comments Off

In the 1990’s and 2000’s Israel was a destination country for sex worker migration and trafficking. Every year since the early 1990’s thousands of women entered Israel for the purpose of prostitution, many of whom were trafficked. Trafficking in women into Israel was first documented by a report of Israeli NGOs in 1997, yet it can be dated to the collapse of the Soviet Union, when transnational crime networks took advantage of the waves of migration of Soviet Jews to Israel, to...

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A Labor Paradigm for Human Trafficking?

Posted by on May 30, 2013 in The Blog | Comments Off

I recently published an article  in which I call for a paradigm shift from a human rights to a labor paradigm to human trafficking. In the article I argue that current efforts to combat trafficking, that view trafficking predominantly as a crime or as a human rights violation, end up helping an alarmingly small number of individuals out of the multitudes currently understood as falling under the category of trafficked persons, and even in these few cases, the assistance provided is of...

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The Celebrification of Human Trafficking, Part III

Posted by on May 13, 2013 in The Blog, Uncategorized | Comments Off

Ricky Martin   Ricky Martin has been a recent favorite of both the Executive and Legislative branches of the US government. He has been the recipient of substantial US government anti-trafficking funding, and has been a frequent celebrity witness before Congress. How does Martin’s work relate to human trafficking?  Martin is a Goodwill Ambassador to UNICEF, and through this humanitarian interest in children, created his own NGO, the Ricky Martin Foundation, which specifically works...

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Exploitation in the Global Fishing Industry: New Zealand Researchers and Advocates Secure a Rare and Important Victory

Posted by on May 4, 2013 in The Blog | Comments Off

Exploitation in the Global Fishing Industry: New Zealand Researchers and Advocates Secure a Rare and Important Victory Anne T. Gallagher   The extent of exploitation within the world’s fishing fleets almost defies description. A recent report by the Nexus Institute and IOM documents the horrific situation of Ukrainian Seafarers “led through a calculated maze into a world of imprisonment at sea, backbreaking labour, sleep deprivation, crippling and untreated illness, and, for the least...

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