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Anti-Slavery International
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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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Home Truths: Wellbeing and vulnerabilities of child domestic workers
This report presents the findings of a multi-country study into the psychosocial wellbeing of child domestic workers (CDWs) across three continents. The study was conducted in Peru, Costa Rica, Togo, Tanzania, India and Philippines during 2009 with around
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Small Grants, Big Change: Influencing policy and practice for child domestic workers
The purpose of this report is to learn from Anti-Slavery International’s programming experiences, which focused on building grass roots civil society capacity to influence the policy and practice of duty bearers, empowering child domestic workers themselv
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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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Begging for change. Research findings and recommendations on forced child begging in Albania/Greece, India and Senegal
This report is based on research conducted in Albania and Greece, India and Senegal, and looks at the phenomenon of forced child begging both in its local specifics and global commonalities. Forced child begging involves forcing boys and girls to beg thro
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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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Forced child begging. Toolkit for researchers
A toolkit outlining qualitative methods for researchers interested in exploring the more exploitative and damaging forms of child begging, where children have been physically forced or coerced into their work. However, many of the tools and methods can be
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Ending Child Trafficking in West Africa: Lessons from the Ivorian cocoa sector
This report finds that trafficking of children to cocoa farms in Côte d’Ivoire still occurs. The research found significant numbers of young people in Mali and Burkina Faso who had worked as children in cocoa farms in Côte d’Ivoire in the last five years.
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Opportunities and Obstacles: Ensuring access to compensation for trafficked persons in the UK
Human trafficking is one of the most serious human rights issues in the modern world. As a criminal enterprise, traffickers profit from the abuse and exploitation of women, men and children. It also deprives countless individuals of their basic human righ
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Contemporary forms of slavery in Paraguay
This report gives an overview and analysis of different slavery practices in Paraguay, including forced labour of indigenous people, trafficking in people, the commercial sexual exploitation of children, child domestic work and child soldiers
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Contemporary forms of slavery in Argentina
This report provides information and analysis in relation to slavery practices in Argentina, with a particular focus on trafficking of people for both labour and sexual exploitation and the commercial sexual exploitation of children.
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Contemporary forms of slavery in Bolivia
This report provides information and analysis in relation to slavery practices in Bolivia, with a particular focus on forced labour and worst forms of child labour in the sugar, nut and mining industries and on private ranches.