The UK home secretary’s announcement of a new anti-trafficking helpline distracts from that government policies that prevent the effective identification and support of ‘trafficked’ persons.
As a UN committee continues to draft a 'general comment on the rights of adolescents', academics working with street children weigh in on what it should (and should not) include.
Peru’s movement of working children offers a visionary model for collaborative, caring, and egalitarian communities where children are valued as full participants in economic, social, and political life. Español
Working children’s organisations have had limited success in challenging dominant abolitionist perspectives on child labour. Working children’s realities and conceptions of rights need to be taken more seriously in international debates.
The paradoxes built into the ‘rescue and rehabilitation’ model effectively trap many women and girls after they have been ‘saved’.
Underclass women plantation workers in Kerala, India went on strike against both their union and their company, scoring symbolic and material gains as well as local political representation.
Migrant workers need rights and safety nets, yet sob stories of abuse will not bring about such change. Organising, on the other hand, will.
The Coalition of Temporary Workers is fighting back against abusive recruitment practices in Sinaloa, Mexico, illustrating that migrants themselves have an important role to play in preventing exploitation. Español.
As the UN considers its position on child labour, 59 experts lay out the case against a universal minimum age. Blanket bans cannot prevent exploitation, only more nuanced approaches do that. Español
BTS editors introduce the ‘case studies and critique’ strand of our new project ‘possible futures’, which will open a window onto the ‘better practices’ found in the field today.
