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Slavery is making a comeback, thanks to Islamic State and Boko Haram. But the UN can help.
The primary focus in tackling temporary migrant labour exploitation is workplace breaches. But should it be?
Crime on the ocean is not only about illegal fishing – it ranges from drug smuggling to human trafficking and modern-day slavery as well.
Why don’t modern victims and criminals regard themselves as slaves and slavers?
The destruction wrought by two earthquakes in Nepal opened up a major opportunity for child traffickers.
The reasons for the phenomenon of child marriage are complex and include the fact that in customary law, marriageable age was never reckoned as an actual number but depended on puberty.
As Myanmar nears a historic election, a long-embattled minority is still struggling to escape lethal violence and trafficking.
Today’s refugee crisis is not just about the movement of people. It is also about the human immobility that is baked into contemporary laws and politics. What, then, of the code of hospitality?
Human trafficking is a major source of misery around the world. The absence of reliable statistics to determine its enormity has led to inflated guesstimates that harm efforts to combat the scourge.
This year the international spotlight turned with full-force on cross-border commercial surrogacy. The reality of children being born this way and the potentially devastating consequences of babies being…
Theresa May’s much vaunted Modern Slavery Bill is designed to stamp out what she describes as a “disgusting trade in human beings”, and a new report on trafficking from the National Crime Agency (NCA…
When Indra Nooyi, chairman and CEO of PepsiCo, was speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January this year, she called on business leaders and industry captains to change the dialogue from “what…
Maritime security is fundamental to economic development all over the world, from local to regional up to international levels. The sea-based trading system, developed mostly by states with maritime borders…
The moral panic on the supposed prevalence of trafficking in the global sex industry rests on a lie: that the majority of sex workers are trafficked. In fact, the opposite is true. However, on the basis…
The NSW Community Relations Commission today released a report which found the NSW government is failing to adequately acknowledge or respond to reports of human trafficking and slavery. While many in…
The introduction of the Crimes Legislation Amendment (Slavery, Slavery-like Conditions and People Trafficking) Act carries…
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Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Richmond
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Human trafficking and modern slavery researcher, Flinders University
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Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor in International Human Rights Law, The University of Western Australia
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ARC Future Fellow and Professor of Criminology, Monash University
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Professor of Criminology, Head of the School of Law and Criminology, University of Greenwich
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Professor of Sociology and Migration Studies, London Metropolitan University
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Professor of Sociology, University of Nottingham
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Associate Professor of Marketing and Business Ethics, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Strategy, Economics and Foresights, Hult International Business School
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Professor of International Relations, University of Copenhagen
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PhD Candidate, Department of Child Law, Leiden University
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University of Nottingham
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Professor of Comparative Organised Crime and Corruption, University of Bath
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PhD Candidate in Law, The University of Western Australia
