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Siddartha Kara writes a splendidly persuasive piece of activist-journalism, using his deeply personal experiences trawling the brothels and factories of distant lands to extrapolate global truths about contemporary forms of [...]

In this article, we are dealing with human trafficking for reasons of labor exploitation. For us, it is important to look at the historicity of the reality of unfree labor, which for Latin America, the Caribbean, and Africa, mostly means its connection to chattel slavery, the illegalization of unfree labor, and the development of the legal term of human trafficking and the introduction of laws against it. In looking at where today's legal, social, and political reality is coming from, we are also able to deepen our critique of today's law and its application. KEYWORDS: human trafficking; Brazil; Bolivia; slavery; abolitionism; Palermo Protocol; Quilombos; forced labor, When we try to define human trafficking in connection to labor, it is unavoidable to stumble upon other terms like '(modern) slavery' 'slave-like practices,' or 'unfree labor'--a term that we [...]

Activists, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and the international media have repeatedly singled out the Mekong region as a hotspot for 'sex trafficking'. Yet, in recent years anti-trafficking campaigns that focus on prostitution have lost momentum, witnessed by a decline in project activity and media attention. This article suggests that a moral panic relating to prostitution has partly been overshadowed by a broader focus on the Thai labour sector, particularly the fishing industry. At the same time, this shift coincides with a discursive reorientation away from 'trafficking' towards 'modern slavery'. This article explores the gendered dimensions of this shifting regime of migration governance which in effect replaces women and girls with men and boys as the central locus for action. Although this change must be understood in light of structural changes within the Thai economy and a broader compassion and programme fatigue, this article points to the similar moral registers that both 'sex trafficking' and 'slavery at sea' invoke. Neoliberal modes of activism coupled with emergent social media help explain why anti-trafficking and modem slavery discourses have gradually redirected attention away from sex to fish. Keywords: gender, human trafficking, slavery, neoliberalism., What has happened to sex trafficking? Human trafficking frequently gets equated with prostitution, which underscores an important gendered dimension within global mobility regimes: how women and men are differentially made [...]

Cet article examine les etapes entreprises par les Nations Unies depuis ses debuts en 1945 pour promouvoir et proteger les droits des femme a l'interieur de ses cadres et critique les strategies qui sont inadequates jusqu'au detriment des droits des femmes. Elle considere que specialiser leurs droits lors de l'adoption par les Nations Unies a marginalise leurs droits et transforme le systeme en place. Elle ajoute que si cette derniere strategic avait ete executee adequatement et liee aux precedentes, la protection et la promotion pour les droits des femmes auraient eie assurees a l'interieur des Nations Unies., 'All human beings, men and women, are equal in dignity and rights.' Thus reads Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). It is clear that the international [...]

ABSTRACT This article considers the attention paid to human trafficking in the Caribbean by governments of the region. It first examines how countries in the region have been positioned in [...]

IN THE PAST DECADE, EFFORTS TO DECRIMINALIZE PROSTITUTION and approach it through human rights and labor frameworks have been increasingly entangled in and undermined by campaigns about 'trafficking'--primarily the trafficking [...]