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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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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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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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Time for Change: A call for urgent action to end the forced child begging of talibés in Senegal
A short report that examines the practice in daaras (Koranic schools) of sending boys as young as five years old out to beg for several hours a day. Often living far from home and in squalid conditions, talibés are frequently subjected to abuse if they fa
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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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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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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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No one to turn to: The under-reporting of child sexual exploitation and abuse by aid workers and peacekeepers
Children living in countries affected by conflict and natural disaster are being sexually exploited and abused by the very people hired to help them – aid workers and peacekeepers. Almost as shocking is the general silence surrounding the abuse. Children
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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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Trafficking in children: A criminal act calling for a child protection response. Oslo Conference Report
Fight against trafficking in human beings was one of the specific priorities of the Norwegian presidency of the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS) during the year July 2010 to June 2011. An important activity included the Conference “Trafficking in C
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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