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- African Migrants Bought and Sold Openly in 'Slave Markets' in Libya
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 Hundreds of migrants along North African migration routes are being bought and sold openly in modern day 'slave markets' in Libya, survivors have told the United Nations migration agency, which warned that these reports "can be added to a long list of outrages" in the country.
- Amnesty International, Canadian Section
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- BPW Canada Presents Commendation on Human Trafficking
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 Member of Parliament Joy Smith receives Commendation from the Canadian Federation of Business and Professional Women for her tireless work to combat Human Trafficking.
- B.C. Human Rights Coalition
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- The Canadian Federation of Business and Professional Women
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Ethiopian workers 'beaten and robbed' by Saudi police
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 A group of undocumented Ethiopians told The Associated Press news agency that after being captured by Saudi police officers they were subject to serious abuses, including beatings and filthy prison conditions as well as witnessing shootings during roundups.
- Evil Traffickers and Innocent Children?
It's Not So Simple Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 One of the most pressing reasons why teenagers like Adri need to migrate for work is because theres no other way for them or their families to access the money that is essential to life in any capitalist economy.
- Focus Shifts to Trafficking of Men in Europe
Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 The public perception is that human trafficking victims are all vulnerable females forced into prostitution and sexual slavery. But this is not the case. It does not occur to many people that trafficking is much broader on its scale, and that it affects a sizeable amount of men.
- From Somaly Mam to ''Eden'': How Sex Trafficking Sensationalism Hurts Sex Workers
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Most activists, regardless of ideology, are trying to do the right thing. But when it comes to human rights and sex work, doing the right thing is often much more complicated than calling the cops or donating 75 cents a day to a starving child on TV.
- Human Traffickers and Exploitive Extraterritorial Practices - Focus of Bill C-310
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 BPW Canada supports the Private Members Bill C-310 and commends Mrs. Smith on her hard work and tenacity in pursuing this Bill before the House. We urge all citizens to call upon their Parliamentarians to support the Bill.
- Inside the Sensational Business of "Rescuing" Sex Workers
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 For years, the sex worker movement has been at odds with a conservative wing of the anti-human trafficking movement.
- Mexican journalist Lydia Cacho: 'I don't scare easily'
Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Lydia Cacho is one of Mexico's most fearless journalists. Her investigations have led to attempts on her life, and now she has been forced to flee her country. What next?
- Prostitution and trafficking the anatomy of a moral panic
Victims who never existed Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 The author challenges the underlying assumptions and methods used to assess the incidence of sex trafficking into the United Kingdom.
- Red Emma Speaks
Selected Writings and Speeches by Emma Goldman Resource Type: Book Published: 1972 A collection of essays which provide a comprehensive view of Emma Goldman's theories and beliefs.
- Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered
New Perspectives on Migration, Sex Work, and Human Rights Resource Type: Book Published: 2005 This collection of essays underscores the interlocking relationship between prostitution, migration and trafficking. They reveal a deep seated anxiety about borders, economic resources and the fragility of the nation-state. Far from from helping women and children become free from explotaiton, the obession with women sex workers has led to the detriment of all by excluding the questions of human rights, freedon of movement, basics such as food and shelter and a living wage. The book is a call for all those involved -- governments, aid workers and trafickees -- to go beyond a paternalistic and colonial view of these issues and deal with them in a spirit of cooperation.
- US-UN Crusade Against 'Sex Trafficking'
Anti-Immigrant, Anti-Woman, Anti-Sex Resource Type: Article Published: 2004 Kidnapping, debt bondage, sexual assault, beatings - for any purpose - are horrible crimes. But there is a qualitative distinction between this kind of coercion and the fundamentally consensual act between a prostitute and her client to exchange money for sex.
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