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About The Project
We are a group of scholars, activists and practitioners from a range of professional backgrounds including law, anthropology and sociology. Though with different political views, we share a commitment to social justice involving labor, migration and human trafficking. We also share a concern that public debate, particularly on trafficking, is too often simplistic, failing to take account of human...
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About the Project
We are a group of scholars, activists and practitioners from a range of professional backgrounds including law, anthropology and sociology. Though with different political views, we share a commitment to social justice involving labor, migration and human trafficking. We also share a concern that public debate, particularly on trafficking, is too often simplistic, failing to take account of human...
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About the Project
We are a group of scholars, activists and practitioners from a range of professional backgrounds including law, anthropology and sociology. Though with different political views, we share a commitment to social justice involving labor, migration and human trafficking. We also share a concern that public debate, particularly on trafficking, is too often simplistic, failing to take account of human...
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Recent Posts
“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 ‘anti-trafficking industry’ has become big business, as an...
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 Brendan O’Connor conferred upon Dr....
Read MoreThe Eye of the Beholder: How Bad Data, Scrambles for Funding and Professional Bias Shape Human Trafficking Law and Policy, Dina Francesca Haynes
Following is a portion of a draft chapter entitled The Eye of the Beholder: How Bad Data, Scrambles for Funding and Professional Bias Shape Human Trafficking Law and Policy Human trafficking is not unique in having attracted multiple and conflicting points of view on everything from the extent of the problem, the definition of what the problem is precisely, and who are its victims to how to best to support them. Like “sexy” and “of the moment” human rights issues of earlier decades, such as female genital mutilation (FGM) and genocide and perhaps like morally...
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