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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
Comprehensive Immigration Reform Senate bill targets recruiter abuse
The Comprehensive Immigration Reform Senate bill introduced in the Senate yesterday includes key protections against labor recruitment abuse. (See page 577 of the bill: Title III, Subpart F: Prevention of Trafficking in Persons and Abuses Involving Workers Recruited Abroad). Let’s hope these provisions remain intact as the bill works its way through the House!
Read MoreCelebrities in Human Trafficking, Part II
In Part II of this posting I begin to detail the involvement of particular celebrities in human trafficking activism, policy making and general influence. 1. Angelina Jolie Angelina Jolie was recently promoted from Goodwill Ambassador for UNHCR, to Special Envoy. Inspired to become an “ardent, persistent and well-briefed humanitarian activist” after filming Tomb Raider in Cambodia, her humanitarian travels for UNHCR to places like Sudan, Sri Lanka, Ecuador, Chad, and Pakistan, receive tremendous press coverage. Asked what she hoped to accomplish meeting with refugees and internally...
Read MoreAn Update on India’s Criminal Law Amendment
Anti-trafficking advocates often push for definitions of sexual exploitation to include sex work. In a victory for sex work advocates, the amended section 370 of the Indian Penal Code recognizes the difference between sexual exploitation and sex work. Sex workers and women’s rights activists across India have welcomed the Government’s move to drop the word “prostitution” as exploitation from the amended Section 370 of the Indian Penal Code. The new formulation targets sexual exploitation and not adult consensual sex work. To read the article in The Hindu click here. The treatment...
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