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Stacked Odds: How lifelong inequality shapes women and girls' experience of modern slavery
Gender inequality is a determinant in the prevalence of modern-day slavery, Walk Free's report finds. 1 in every 130 women and girls live in modern-day slavery. This report examines how women and girls are particularly vulnerable to modern-day slavery th
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The Global Slavery Index 2013
The Global Slavery Index Report 2013 published by the Walk Free Foundation. Modern slavery includes slavery, slavery-like practices, human trafficking and forced labour. Key finding from this inaugural Index is that there are an estimated 29.8 million pe
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Promising approaches- Addressing child trafficking in Europe and Eurasia
Child trafficking affects all of the countries of the Europe and Eurasia (E&E) region. An increasing number of children are being identified as trafficked into prostitution, begging, domestic work, construction, and agricultural labor. These children’s vu
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Human trafficking. Trauma and Psychotherapy: A collection of papers
Within the project Not for Sale! Building towards consensus on combating human trafficking in Serbia, ASTRA has published a collection of papers on psychotherapeutic work with trafficking survivors. The collected papers “Human Trafficking: Trauma and Psyc
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Child Labor & Educational Disadvantage – Breaking the Link, Building Opportunity. A Review by Gordon Brown
During the nineteenth century successive generations of social reformers mobilized to combat child labor – a practice that they cast as the moral equivalent of slavery. Their campaigns brought together political leaders, philanthropists, social movements
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Out of the shadows: Child marriage and slavery
This report, prepared by Anti-Slavery International, sheds light on the striking links between slavery and slavery-like practices and many child marriages. It reviews the literature available on child marriage to show that a potentially high proportion of
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Never Work Alone. Trade Unions and NGOs joining forces to combat Forced Labour and Trafficking in Europe
The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and Anti-Slavery International (ASI) have jointly produced "Never Work Alone", a guide intended for trade unions and civil society organisations in combating modern-day slavery and trafficking of workers.
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"Eso es lo que nosotros exigimos: Que se haga justicia". Impunidad por actos de violencia sexual cometido contra mujeres en el conflicto armado de Colombia
This report is the result of two years of investigation by Amnesty International on the impunity for conflict-related sexual violence in Colombia’s armed conflict. Sexual violence is endemic to Colombia’s long-running armed conflict, now in its fifth deca
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Commission Staff Working Document- Combating Child Labour
This staff working document from the European Commission presents the subject of "Combating Child Labour", which is to identify and assess current efforts to combat child labour in general and eliminate the worst forms of child labour in particular. The p
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Unprotected Work, Invisible Exploitation: Trafficking for the Purpose of Domestic Servitude
This Occasional Paper is the result of the Alliance High-level Conference on “Unprotected Work, Invisible Exploitation: Trafficking for the Purpose of Domestic Servitude” hosted by the Special Representative in Vienna on 17 and 18 June 2010 and the Backgr
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Combating trafficking as modern-day slavery: A matter of rights, freedoms and security
This Annual Report divides in four parts and deals with different aspects of the phenomenon, policies, actions, and challenges deriving from trafficking in women, men, and children for many different exploitative purposes. Part I “Trafficking in Human Bei
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Lost childhoods in Haiti: Quantifying Child Trafficking, Restavèks & Victims of Violence
Nearly a quarter of a million impoverished children – mostly young girls – are forced to work as unpaid domestic servants in major Haitian cities, according to a major survey of Haiti’s human rights. Called restavèks, these very poor children are sent by