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Subscribe! - April 2021 - Dear friends, Greetings from Bangkok. I am writing this just before we take a week’s break for

9 Apr 2021

New FLEX Publications Highlight the Working Conditions of Vulnerable Workers in the UK Focus on Labour Exploitation (FLEX), UK, recently published three research reports: on the working conditions of workers in the cleaning sector in the UK, and of seasonal workers in the Scottish agriculture sector, as well as one documenting the learnings of FLEX from conducting Feminist Participatory Action Res. [...] the extraordinary language of 'trafficking' that NGOs, media and policy makers use to describe the same thing; the origins and motivations of the 'rescue industry'; the artificial distinction between 'trafficking' and 'smuggling' in international law; and how to ensure that women have good experiences with migration without the negative side effects of calling it 'anti-trafficking work'. [...] How we got here: the story of the Palermo Protocol on Trafficking Joel Quirk and Marjan Wijers In this interview, Dutch researcher and human rights advocate (and one of the founders of GAATW) Marjan Wijers reflects on her involvement in the field of human trafficking, women's rights and sex workers rights since the 1980s. [...] These include the lack of social protection of contracted workers, the lack of bargaining powers of non-unionised workers, the monopoly power of labour platforms against smaller enterprises, and the further exacerbation of digital divides as Global North digital platforms contract low-wage labour from the South. [...] No Borders to Equality: Global mapping of organisations working on gender and migration Paola Cyment A report and resource site jointly developed by the Women in Migration Network and Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung provides a useful tool for tracking the state of advocacy in the field migration, highlighting the issues, problems and capacity of organisations working in the field.
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