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Qatar: New laws to protect migrant workers are a step in the right direction
September 2, 2020

Qatar: New laws to protect migrant workers are a step in the right direction

The Qatari authorities have taken a significant step towards protecting migrant workers by passing two laws which could strike at …

Mujeres vendidas de Nigeria: Trata de personas y prostitución forzada
September 1, 2020

Mujeres vendidas de Nigeria: Trata de personas y prostitución forzada

Nigeria se ve particularmente afectada por la trata de personas. Mujeres jóvenes son atraídas a Europa con falsas promesas y …

Advocates’ Experiences With Media and the Impact of Media on Human Trafficking Advocacy
August 31, 2020

Advocates’ Experiences With Media and the Impact of Media on Human Trafficking Advocacy

The present qualitative study explores advocates’ opinions of misinformation about human trafficking in the media and describes advocates’ strategies to …

US Sanctions on Chinese Apparel Companies for Forced Labor Hit Retail Supply Chains
August 28, 2020

US Sanctions on Chinese Apparel Companies for Forced Labor Hit Retail Supply Chains

There is a risk that garments made from cotton produced by XPCC could be subject to a Customs and Border …

Southeast Asia’s Tuna Canneries Urged to Eliminate Modern Slavery at Sea
August 28, 2020

Southeast Asia’s Tuna Canneries Urged to Eliminate Modern Slavery at Sea

Of the 20 tuna canneries—nine from Thailand, five from Indonesia and six from the Philippines—ranked, nearly half (nine) have not established …

Creative Recourse in Cases of Forced Labour: Using Human Trafficking, Human Rights and Labour Law to Protect Migrant Workers
August 28, 2020

Creative Recourse in Cases of Forced Labour: Using Human Trafficking, Human Rights and Labour Law to Protect Migrant Workers

Canada has no legislation prohibiting forced labour, relying instead on human trafficking penal dispositions; the two are intimately related. However, …

August 27, 2020

End Slavery in the U.S. Prison and Detention Industry

Forced labor should not be legal in the United States. But it is, and it’s rife in the U.S. prison …

In Between the Missing and Murdered: The Need for Indigenous-Led Responses to Trafficking
August 27, 2020

In Between the Missing and Murdered: The Need for Indigenous-Led Responses to Trafficking

This article, written by two Indigenous female identifying social work practitioners, academics, and researchers with lived experience of violence, is …

Transgender People and Human Trafficking: Intersectional Exclusion of Trans Migrants and People of Color from Anti-trafficking Protection in the US
August 27, 2020

Transgender People and Human Trafficking: Intersectional Exclusion of Trans Migrants and People of Color from Anti-trafficking Protection in the US

Transgender (hereafter: trans) people are rarely included in human trafficking research. This empirical study presents narratives of trans individuals who …

“Give Us a Baby and We’ll Let You Go”: Trafficking of Kachin “Brides” from Myanmar to China
August 26, 2020

“Give Us a Baby and We’ll Let You Go”: Trafficking of Kachin “Brides” from Myanmar to China

This report is primarily based on interviews with 73 people, including 37 ethnic Kachin women and girls who escaped back …