What does real healing look like for survivors? Link
Rescuing the rescuers: how survivors are re-making anti-trafficking Link
Forgotten survivor initiatives: the zombie projects of anti-trafficking Link
The anti-trafficking movement is pitting survivors against each other Link
How big tech and AI are putting trafficking survivors at risk Link
The far right tried to profit off my story, says Telford sex ring survivor Link
How to speak to trafficking survivors without hurting them (a journalist’s guide) Link
Trafficking survivor says she was told to blame Muslims in Lords speech Link
It’s time for anti-trafficking to move beyond the ‘victim’ label Link
They had traded stigma for an empty promise, and this disillusionment intensified the community’s hostility towards anti-trafficking NGOs Link
Trafficking survivors aren’t just stories to be sold. Stories of suffering power the anti-trafficking movement. But can survivors be more than their stories? Link
UK says the plan to stop Channel crossings pushes bounds of law Link
Biden reportedly considers detaining migrant families in a major reversal Link
Sexual Violence by Russian Troops In Ukraine “Chronically Underreported,” U.N. & Amnesty Int’l Find link
Bilingual Education- More of our Racist History- link
2-year investigation reveals ICE has data on most of the American public link
‘People will always find a way to get through’: the children who work in smuggling link 5/5/22
‘Beyond troubling’: Current, former government officials tied to human trafficking probe in Georgia [link] April 19th, 2022
UK firm handling immigration for govt accused of paying for sex while deporting migrants [link] April 13th, 2022
Taken in the name of ‘rescue’: a child responds [link] March 2022
Child workers speak: will anybody listen? [link] March 2022
What Did America Lose from Trump’s Mass Exclusion of Refugees? It Includes Billions of Dollars per Year [link] March 2022
‘I will not be held prisoner’: the trans women turned back at Ukraine’s borders [link] March 22st, 2022
Ukrainian women immigrants in Israel pose moral dilemma, security challenge [link]– March 2022
ANOTHER U.S.-TRAINED SOLDIER STAGES A COUP IN WEST AFRICA- [link] January 2022
Immigrant Service Members are Part of the Fabric of America- [link] January 2022
Over-Policing Sex Trafficking: How U.S. Law Enforcement Should Reform Operations- November 15th, 2021
The massage parlor as a sacred space– November 4th, 2021
The violence of the 24-hour workday: fighting racism by fighting exploitation– September 26th, 2021
Special Issue – Anti-Trafficking Education- September 2021
Freedom Network USA now supports sex workers’ rights– September 10th, 2021
Fence-sitting and its discontents: the fear of taking a stand on sex work in the US– August 30th, 2021
Lost in translation: do anti-trafficking organizations reflect their employees’ views on commercial sex? August 25th, 2021
The anti-trafficking movement has left sex workers behind August 20th, 2021
“I can’t do this every day”: Asian massage workers in Atlanta are scared and ready to leave the industry after the massacre- August 2st, 2021
Australia’s abandoned refugees: nine years of exile in offshore purgatory- June 3rd, 2021
Policing in the USA 1492 to Present
A story of slavery — and space- Brazil- March 2021
Palermo Protocol 20th anniversary special Are we better off on the inside? 2021
Anti-Sex Trafficking Organizations: Where Does the Money Go? April 13th, 2021
Retracing steps to anti-Asian racism– April 2nd, 2021
Inside The $4.5 Billion Erotic Massage Parlor Economy April 4th, 2021
Migrant Massage Workers Don’t Need to Be Rescued- April 2nd, 2021
Garment Workers Win Historic Victory in Effort to Transform Fashion Industry- March 20th, 2021
RED CANARY SONG RESPONSE TO SHOOTINGS AT GOLD MASSAGE SPA, YOUNG’S ASIAN MASSAGE, & AROMATHERAPY SPA– March 17th, 2021
Inside a Massive Anti-Trafficking Charity’s Blundering Overseas Missions- March 8th, 2021
How we got here: the story of the Palermo Protocol on trafficking-February 11th, 2020
It isn’t just anti-trafficking: we must always ask whose interests we really serve- December 16th, 2020
Triple (e)X rating the trafficking protocol- December 10th, 2020
22 Women Just Went Public With Graphic Descriptions of Medical Abuse in ICE Detention- November 19th, 2020
Pandemic borders– Hero nurses, untrustworthy domestic workers, and vilified sex workers- November 17th, 2020
Long read: How the Nordic model in France changed everything for sex workers-October 16th, 2020
Base Motives: The case for an increased focus on wage theft against migrant workers
The social distancing between the state and poor migrants in India– July 28th, 2020
NEW ROUNDTABLE REFUGEES’ ASPIRATIONS. Migration policy generally assumes that ‘real’ refugees should behave like hopeless victims, and it punishes people who still show signs of having goals. It’s a lose-lose situation for everybody. June 2020
The fight to decriminalize sex work- May 2020
On Migration, Sex Work and the Pandemic in the Caribbean- April 28th, 2020
Class action suit aims to free all transgender ICE detainees- April 28th, 2020
Sex workers’ response to the pandemic proves they aren’t society’s victims- April 22nd, 2020
Politics is the heart of all sex worker organizing- April 16th, 2020
DOJ Moves Forward with Dangerous Plan to Collect DNA from Immigrant Detainees- March 19th, 2020
A Feast in Time of COVID-19: The anti-trafficking movement needs to take a step back- March 31st, 2020
ICE Is Torturing LGBTQ Immigrants by Putting Them in Solitary- February 25th, 2020
Why ‘stronger borders’ don’t work– January 21st, 2020
After 68 Days, Hunger Strikers in ICE Custody Are on the Brink of Death– January 9th, 2020
China set to abolish forced labor detention system for sex workers- December 26th, 2019
Tesco halts production at Chinese factory over alleged ‘forced’ labour- December 22nd, 2019
New testimonials suggest “modern slavery” for Southeast Asian migrant fishers working at sea- November 9th, 2019
Church’s nativity scene depicts Jesus, Mary, and Joseph as a family separated at the border- December 8th, 2019
43 Dead In ‘Extremely Horrific’ Fire At New Delhi Factory- December 8th, 2019
‘The lion has awoken’: indigenous people of Bolivia rise up against imperialist coup November 15th, 2019
GOVERNMENT MUST HAVE REASONABLE SUSPICION OF DIGITAL CONTRABAND BEFORE SEARCHING ELECTRONIC DEVICES AT THE U.S. BORDER- November 12th, 2019
“YOU WON’T BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENED”: THE WILD, DISTURBING SAGA OF ROBERT KRAFT’S VISIT TO A STRIP MALL SEX SPA- November 2019
Informal workers: an untapped asset for Asia’s unions -October 22nd, 2019
Migrating out of Poverty- October 2019
Arizona official accused of human smuggling via a Marshall Islands adoption scheme- October 9th, 2019
The company making Costco pajamas flagged for forced labor– October 9th, 2019
Challenges to ‘Public Charge’ Rule Mount as Migrants Prepare for Change- September 24th, 2019
Send them back’: migrant sex workers deported from Europe -August 19th, 2019
The Philippine Sex Workers Collective: Struggling to be heard, not saved-August 2019
New DIIS report on human trafficking puts the Danish media-coverage under a critical spotlight -August 22nd, 2019
Deported to Their Parents’ Homeland, Cambodian Americans Start Anew -August 15th, 2019
Canadian Cartoonist Michael De Adder’s Contract Terminated After Viral Trump Cartoon –June 30th, 2019
Today’s Refugee Crisis Is Blowback From US Dirty Wars in Central America -June 28th, 2019
Thailand Banks on Tech to End Slavery at Sea as Workers Push for Rights -June 26th, 2019
Japanese internment camp survivors protest Ft. Sill migrant detention center –June 22nd, 2019
I’M A JOURNALIST BUT I DIDN’T FULLY REALIZE THE TERRIBLE POWER OF U.S. BORDER OFFICIALS UNTIL THEY VIOLATED MY RIGHTS AND PRIVACY- June 22nd,2019
The remote villages of Denmark with over a thousand Thai wives -May 24th, 2019
How ICE Is Using Solitary Confinement to Punish Asylum Seekers, Including LGBT & Disabled Immigrants -May 22nd, 2019
Rights not rescue for migrant sex workers– May 11th, 2019
Scott Warren Worked to Prevent Migrant Deaths in the Arizona Desert. The Government Wants Him in Prison.- May 4th, 2019
My mother, the marriage migrant -May 7th, 2019
Cyprus serial killer case exposes abuse of migrant women -May 2st, 2019
Special Issue–Sex Work April 2019
Feeling a failure: returning home a ‘trafficked’ man in Indonesia -April 18th, 2019
What happens after victims of trafficking return to Nigeria? -April 2019
Confronting the root causes of forced labor: concentrated corporate power and ownership- March 2019
Sweden Deports Victims of Child Marriage and Torture to Afghanistan -March 19th, 2019
Australian Aboriginals to get billions in compensation for land & spiritual loss in landmark case -March 15th, 2019
Future of work roundtable: how has the world of work changed?- March 1st, 2019
Organizing beyond silos: confronting common challenges amongst migrants and workers- March 1st, 2019
Future of work round table -February 29th, 2019
Crossings: –THE STORIES OF MIGRANT SEX WORKERS- movie trailer
Farmington Hills fake university set up by ICE to nab foreign students -January 30th, 2019
Thousands of Mexican Women March Against Femicide, Kidnapping -February 3rd,2019
The Stories of Migrants Risking Everything for a Better Life -January 24th, 2019
Is Foreign Military Intervention in Venezuela Imminent? -January 23rd, 2019
IRS orders 36,000 furloughed employees to return to work without pay -January 15th, 2019
APNewsBreak: US-approved thousands of child bride requests -January 11th, 2019
Almost every brand of tuna on supermarket shelves shows why modern slavery laws are needed- January 9th, 2019
China’s Detention Camps for Muslims Turn to Forced Labor -December 16th, 2018
The Stansted 15 and the terror of the law -December 12th, 2018
Scandals in sex worker rescue shelters: is ‘awful’ distracting from ‘lawful’? -December 12th, 2018
The most powerful currency today
Why shelter homes feel like prisons for sex trafficking survivors, and how to change this–December 7th, 2018
Why Marronage, not Slavery? The Case of UK Hand Car Washes- November 28th, 2018
The issue of forced institutionalization of adult women in shelter homes- November 27th, 2018
Migrant fishermen claim their working conditions are akin to ‘modern slavery’ -November 22st, 2018
Trans Woman Was Beaten in ICE Custody Before Death, Autopsy Finds-November 26th, 2018
As Jeff Bezos Earns $191K Per Minute, Why Are NY & VA Giving Amazon $3 Billion in Corporate Welfare? -November 14th, 2018
Organizing beyond silos: confronting common challenges amongst migrants and workers -November 15th, 2018
From brothels to independence: the neo-liberalization of (sex) work -November 7th, 2018
Trafficking in Lies- Sex work doesn’t cause human trafficking—borders do– November 5th, 2018
These two lawsuits are challenging Trump’s barbaric border policies -Nov 2st, 2018
A New Form of Slavery? Meet Incarcerated Firefighters Battling California’s Wildfires for $1 an Hour -Sept 12th, 2018
Traffickers, cybergangs, and pedophiles: a genuine threat or a fuzzy narrative surrounding displaced Rohingya? –Aug 31st, 2018
The political economy of anti-trafficking- August 22nd, 2018
The Perils of Housecleaning Abroad- August 6th, 2018
“Separating children from parents in the name of “anti-trafficking in Barcelona” July 27th, 2018
Thousands Of Immigrants Report Sexual Abuse While In ICE Custody- July 22nd, 2018
Open the cities, open the harbors– July 23rd,2018
Putting sex workers’ rights at the center– July 12th, 2018
Sex work, labor unfreedom, and the law –July 11th, 2018
Not just Trump: India has separated Bangladeshi children from their parents for years-July 3rd, 2018
Almost legal: migrant sex work in New Zealand–June 6th, 2018
A Century of U.S. Intervention Created the Immigration Crisis -June 2st, 2018
BEHIND THE RESCUE-Butterfly 2018
HHS Official Says Agency Lost Track of Nearly 1,500 Unaccompanied Minors April 26th, 2018
Dark factories: labor exploitation in Britain’s garment industry-May 21st, 2018
Diplomats Are Getting Away With Abusing Their Children’s Nannies- May 21st, 2018
Professor Explores Dark Side of the Anti-Trafficking Movement -May 8th, 2018
New Documents Reveal How ICE Mines Local Police Databases Across the Country- April 26th, 2018
Beyond Liberalism: Marxist Feminism, Migrant Sex Work, and Labour Unfreedom- April 2018
A little story about white privilege– March 11th, 2018
Questions linger about how Melania Trump, a Slovenian model, scored ‘the Einstein visa’- March 1st, 2018
Blacks Were Enslaved Well into the 1960s- Feb 28th, 2018
Fed up with human trafficking, Hong Kong migrant workers hold vigil demanding justice– Feb 25th, 2018
BeyondSlavery | openDemocracy
Support Asian and Migrant Sex Workers 2018
Trail of workers’ suicides and deaths in South India’s textile spinning mills- Feb 15th, 2018
When Deportation is a Death Sentence: The Fatal Consequences of U.S. Immigration Policy- Feb 6th, 2018
When Services Allow Organizing, Trafficked Workers Win
Beyond ‘maids and madams’: can employers be allies in new policies for domestic workers’ rights? Jan 30th, 2018
Allies or co-conspirators: what does the domestic workers’ movement need? Jan 30th, 2018
Understanding the interpersonal and the structural context of domestic work- Jan 29th, 2018
Slave owner compensation was still being paid off by British taxpayers in 2015
Eight reasons why we shouldn’t use the term ‘modern slavery– Oct 17th, 2017
Not gay enough: the bizarre hoops asylum seekers have to leap through- Dec 9th, 2017
Modern Vietnamese slaves in the UK: are raid and rescue operations appropriate? -November 29th, 2017
Beyond ‘raid and rescue’: time to acknowledge the damage being done KIMBERLY WALTERS November 25th, 2017
Rescue by ‘force’ or rescue by ‘choice’ BARNALI DAS November 25th, 2017
Interview: forced rescue and humanitarian trafficking KIMBERLY WALTERS and NEIL HOWARD November 25th, 2017
Rescued from rights: the misogyny of anti-trafficking KIMBERLY WALTERS November 25th, 2017
Freeloaders, blackmailers, and lost souls: rescued sex trafficking survivors in the hands of the assistance RUNA LAZZARINO November 25th, 2017
Eight reasons why we shouldn’t use the term ‘modern slavery’- October 17th, 2017
The anti-trafficking rehabilitation complex: commodity activism and slave-free goods Elena Shih-August 19th 2015
Do the Hidden Costs Outweigh the Practical Benefits of Human Trafficking Awareness Campaigns?
Marketing Mass Hysteria: Anti-Trafficking Awareness Campaigns Go Rogue
1907 The Expatriation Act – March 17th, 2017
Sex workers speak: who listens? GIULIA GAROFALO GEYMONAT and P.G. MACIOTI February 29th, 2016
For decriminalization and justice: sex workers demand legal reform and social change INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE ON THE RIGHTS OF SEX WORKERS IN EUROPE February 29th, 2016
The thorny ramifications of the Modern Slavery Act -Sept 26th, 2016
Anti-trafficking campaign harms migrant sex workers– Feb 10th, 2016
Modern slavery, Brexit, migration, and development: connecting the dots November 21st, 2017
Slavery in the US prison system If you want to find an example of modern day slavery, look no further than US prisons. September 9th, 2017
My body is my piece of land. Stories of migrant sex workers often cast human smugglers as the villains, yet the biggest evil many migrants face is their hopeless debt in their home country. by SINE PLAMBECH September 29th 2017
How refugees are fighting back against border controls
Demand for wives in China endangers women who live on its borders– Nov 4th, 2017
The difference self-organising makes: the creative resistance of domestic workers by ROSE MAHI August 8th, 2017
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ WONDERFULLY CRAFTED STORY. THOUGHTFUL IDEAS. August 31, 2017. Read the review of The Three-Headed Dog by Claude d’Estrée, Director of the Human Trafficking Center at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver. A crime novel that broke the academic barrier! http://amzn.to/2hGQQJa
Could Trump be an ally in the fight against human trafficking? ANNE T. GALLAGHER July 4th 2017
Lin-Manuel Miranda Releases ‘Immigrants’ Video Fro ‘Hamilton Mixtape’ June 28th 2017
Italy’s action against NGOs is wrong By GIULIA LAGANÀ July 7th, 2017
SLAVE HUSBANDS OF HONG KONG: THE MEN WHO MARRY INTO SERVITUDE by SYLVIA YU May 21st 2017
Will “America first” mean refugees last? BILL FRELICK 24 April 2017
THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD FOR REFUGEES At a safe house in Buffalo, asylum seekers from around the world prepare to flee the U.S. for Canada. By Jake Halpern March 2017
When NGOs save children who don’t want to be saved Western media misrepresent voluntary child labour as slavery. by Neil Howard
Rich in Funds but Short on Facts: The High Cost of Human Trafficking Awareness Campaigns
Raising Awareness: of What? for What? by Whom? for Whom?
Campaign Culture Matters: Bringing Together Awareness and Evidence
Insight: Inside Europe’s worst detention centre by Tiara Atari Feb 13th 2017
Interview: detention as the new migration management? BEN LEWIS and CAMERON THIBOS 24 February 2017
We need to hear the stories of exploited unlawful migrant workers, not just deport them February 28, 2017
Brexit as a driver of modern slavery? ANDREW CRANE 29 March 2017
Immigration detainees bring legal challenge against £1 an hour ‘slave’ wages Diane Taylor June 28th 2017
Purity, Victimhood and Agency: Fifteen years of the UN Trafficking Protocol- 2015