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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
Exploitation in the Global Fishing Industry: New Zealand Researchers and Advocates Secure a Rare and Important Victory
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 fortunate, death”. IOM has documented similar abuses of Cambodian and Myanmar migrants working on...
Read MoreA Battle Half-Won: India’s New Anti-Trafficking Law
The Indian Parliament recently enacted the Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2013 (CLA). Although primarily concerned with targeting rape and sexual assault, the Bill incorporates a range of other offences dealing with violence against women many of which the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) did not envisage. Two such offences relate to trafficking, an area of considerable policy and legal reform internationally. Specifically, the new Section 370 defines the offence of trafficking thus replacing the prior Section 370, which dealt with the buying or disposing of any person as a slave. The new Section...
Read MoreCongratulations to Florrie Burke!
A hearty congratulations to Florrie Burke on receiving the inaugural Presidential Award for Extraordinary Efforts to Combat Trafficking in Persons “for her sustained dedication and unparalleled leadership in combating modern slavery through the development and delivery of comprehensive services, the empowerment of survivors to move from slavery to independence, and the transformation of policy to eradicate all forms of human trafficking.” So...
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