What do we mean when we talk about trafficking?
April 5th, 2019
…(2018) (De)Constructing Stereotypes: Media Representations, Social Perceptions, and Legal Responses to Human Trafficking, Journal of Human Trafficking, 4:1, 61-72. SANGRAM, Raided: How Anti-Trafficking Strategies Increase Sex Workers’ Vulnerability to Exploitative…
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“The police are our real pimps”: Violence against sex workers in the Philippines
December 17th, 2019
…workers in anti-trafficking discourse in the Philippines and the effects of anti-trafficking interventions on sex workers. She has worked as a volunteer with the Philippine Sex Workers Collective since 2015….
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“Disadvantaged, ignored, and disrespected”: A feminist analysis of CEDAW General Recommendation 38 – Part 1
August 9th, 2021
…rights holders? Phelister Abdalla, Kenya Sex Workers Alliance Globally, sex workers have advocated for – through the Global Network of Sex Work Projects and in partnership with women’s rights groups…
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Tough on crime, tough on the victims of crime: Challenging harmful anti-trafficking measures
July 30th, 2018
…of trafficking. A disproportionate focus on sex trafficking also ensures that the trafficking of persons into other labour sectors – agriculture, commercial fishing, or domestic work, for example – is…
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“How did this happen?”: A feminist analysis of CEDAW General Recommendation 38 – Part 2
October 12th, 2021
…environment and for sex work to be work just like any other work. If we have such recommendations coming from a body like CEDAW, are we really looking at sex…
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“Drugs were as normal as eating rice”: Understanding the experiences and needs of transgender sex workers in Pattaya, Thailand
March 2nd, 2021
…the other hand, transgender sex workers face widespread discrimination, violence, and oppression, especially from law enforcement. I am attending HON’s workshop on harm reduction for transgender sex workers who use…
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Sex Work is Not Trafficking
July 30th, 2021
The conflation of sex work with trafficking leaves sex workers vulnerable to abuse by authorities while discouraging people involved in the sex industry from reporting trafficking cases. Sex workers’ rights…
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A Feminist Analysis of CEDAW General Recommendation No. 38 on Trafficking in Women & Girls
December 16th, 2020
…Recommendation through providing a structural analysis of the globally dominant neoliberal economic model that lead to trafficking and labour exploitation, highlighting how recognising sex work as work is the most…
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Looking Back, Looking Forward: Trafficking & Women’s Rights
December 22nd, 2020
In this episode of the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW)’s series on the UN Trafficking Protocol and anti-trafficking work more broadly, Borislav Gerasimov and Sharmila Parmanand speak with…
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