Addressing the Demand Side of Trafficking, by Phil Marshall
This paper briefly raises some issues around the demand side of trafficking, initially focusing on demand relating to exploitative labour practices and then discussing issues around demand contributing...
View ArticleLack of Transparency in Recruitment Spurs Trafficking, by Cathleen Caron
Labor migration schemes around the world are typically created to fit the needs of employers, and rarely support and protect the rights of the migrant workers. In my article, “Why Transparency in the...
View ArticleCoerced Victims or Exploited Workers?: Prabha Kotiswaran reviews Pardis...
Mahdavi’s book Gridlock offers a fascinating report of the negative consequences in the Middle-East, specifically in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Dubai as a result of the impact of the UN...
View ArticleTrafficked Victims or Labor Migrants? The Indentured Mobility of Filipina...
In her book Illicit Flirtations, Rhacel Parrenas provides us with cutting edge, systematic, and empirical research on Filipina migrant hostesses— the women the U.S. government called the largest group...
View ArticleHuman Trafficking for Organ Removal: Evidence from Egypt by Debra Budiani-Saberi
Human trafficking for organ removal (HTOR) occurs across the globe and constitutes egregious human rights abuses. The crime is included in the UN Trafficking Protocol and is the subject of the 2008...
View ArticleISSUE PAPER 4: The Swedish Law to Criminalize Clients: A failed experiment in...
In 1999, the Swedish government embarked on an experiment in social engineering to end men’s practice of purchasing commercial sexual services. The government enacted a new law criminalizing the...
View ArticleIssue Paper 5: Children, Adolescents and Human Trafficking: Making sense of a...
This Issue Paper presents current knowledge about the scope and meaning of child trafficking. Although it might seem to be a simple subject to describe, it is not. First, there is the question of what...
View ArticleReview of Prabha Kotiswaran’s “Dangerous Sex, Invisible Labor: Sex Work and...
Gloria Steinem, founder of Ms Magazine and a veteran of the U.S. feminist movement, during her recent trip to India expressed her strong concern over the ‘global epidemic of trafficking’ and mentioned...
View ArticleProtecting “Children” in Southern Benin? Anti-Trafficking Policy in Need of...
Neil Howard follows Issue Paper 5 on children and adolescents with an important story about the failures of the international child protection establishment to adequately protect the teenage labour...
View ArticleDo John Schools Really Decrease Recidivism? A methodological critique of an...
A growing number of governments are creating “john schools” in the belief that providing men with information about prostitution will stop them from buying sex, which will in turn stop prostitution and...
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