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March 14, 2023

Global Justice: Using Strategic Litigation to Combat Forced Labor

Executive Summary Forced labor is a feature, not a bug, in today’s global economic system. Forced labor spans the globe. …

Legal Deserts Report 2.0: Closing Gaps for Human Trafficking Survivors’ Access to Justice
March 14, 2023

Legal Deserts Report 2.0: Closing Gaps for Human Trafficking Survivors’ Access to Justice

Abstract Human trafficking survivors across the United States find themselves in legal deserts without access to trauma-informed legal services. Current …

The New Anti-Human Trafficking & Migrant Smuggling Act of Sierra Leone: Implications for Policy and Practice
March 14, 2023

The New Anti-Human Trafficking & Migrant Smuggling Act of Sierra Leone: Implications for Policy and Practice

Introduction This policy brief provides an insight into the content of the new Anti-Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling amendment Act …

The Migrant Workers Who Follow Climate Disasters
March 10, 2023

The Migrant Workers Who Follow Climate Disasters

A growing group of laborers is trailing hurricanes and wildfires the way farmworkers follow crops, contracting for big disaster-recovery firms, and facing …

March 10, 2023

‘We ferried 500 men out’: how an organizer foiled one of America’s biggest human trafficking operations

‘Guest worker programs are a complete failure in the US. They hurt immigrant workers and employers.’ Photograph: Resilience Force In his …

March 9, 2023

UN committee urges China to dismantle forced labour systems

Dolkun Isa, President of the World Uyghur Congress, poses at a United States-backed Uyghur photo exhibit of dozens of people …

March 9, 2023

Human trafficking survivors could be sent to Rwanda, new guidance says

The government will be able to send survivors of human trafficking – who are known to have suffered “physical or psychological harm” …

Arkansas Gov. Sanders signs law loosening child labor protections
March 9, 2023

Arkansas Gov. Sanders signs law loosening child labor protections

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) signed into law this week legislation that rolls back significant portions of the state’s …

March 8, 2023

‘Pig butchering’: Former romance scammer reveals tactics

Watch video here. In recent years, people around the world have lost hundreds of millions of dollars to online romance …

March 7, 2023

Representing Human Trafficking as Gendered Violence: Doing Cultural Violence

Abstract: Human trafficking for sexual exploitation is a major concern for many international actors. In anti-trafficking campaigns sex trafficking is …