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Cross border security is at serious risk. So are the lives of the people who live there.
Smugglers who transport migrants and refugees into the EU are both heroes and villains.
Slavery is making a comeback, thanks to Islamic State and Boko Haram. But the UN can help.
For those who travel to China for whole livers, lungs or hearts, there can be little doubt that, after organ retrieval, the donor is dead.
The destruction wrought by two earthquakes in Nepal opened up a major opportunity for child traffickers.
Is the status quo really that bad? Our expert talks us through the arguments about the ‘oldest profession’.
As Myanmar nears a historic election, a long-embattled minority is still struggling to escape lethal violence and trafficking.
Trafficking victims have contact with the NHS but staff need more knowledge about how to refer them for support.
Australia may have ‘stopped the boats’ but the tragedy of people drowning at sea continues to our north and is getting worse. A regional solution to the refugee crisis is urgently needed.
Political leaders have a ready culprit in people smugglers for drownings at sea. The problem is that this ignores responsibility for eliminating all other options for these people to avoid harm.
It remains to be seen whether the EU’s narrow approach can prevent further deaths in the Mediterranean.
The BBC has uncovered an open online market for children but this has been happening for years.
Once in a while an unexpected event shines a revealing light on aspects of international relations we generally neglect or would rather not think about. The surrogacy saga that has seemingly transfixed…
The story of baby Gammy and his “surrogate” mother has captured the world’s attention, highlighting just how complex and fraught commercial surrogacy arrangements can be. It also shows Australia is right…
Over the past few years, policy-makers, academics and practitioners have paid more and more attention to children who are trafficked into and within the UK. But while children are trafficked for various…
Cases in which women or children have been forced into prostitution under the violent control of a third party are often described as the tip of a very large iceberg. One of the principal statistical claims…
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…
In the ongoing debate on the law’s response to sex work, it has not been forgotten that sex workers have pressing health needs. However, the debate is still very much focused on sexually transmitted infections…
The “Nordic model” of prostitution is often heralded for being particularly progressive and woman-friendly, built on a feminist definition of prostitution as a form of male violence against women. France…
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