The Cambridge Centre for Applied Research in Human Trafficking (CCARHT) is excited to host our 8th Annual Symposium, covering neglected areas of attention in the struggle to address in a sustainable manner the challenges of Human Trafficking in our time. This year’s symposium themes of “Land, Widows and Wombs: A Gendered Assets Approach to ‘Enabling …
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As the old year turned into the new, a significant report emerged at Westminster which is worth the consideration of all those working in the fight against Human Trafficking in all its manifestations. One of the concerns which the former Anti Slavery Commissioner Kevin Hyland expressed around the UKs response to the growing number of …
CCARHT Summer Symposium What’s in a Name? Trafficking in a world of Modern Slavery “The discussion around Human Trafficking has been led by the law…but only a multi-disciplinary, culturally contextual approach will truly enable use to understand the causes and find effective solutions.” Dr. Carrie Pemberton Ford On Monday the 1st of August, the Cambridge …
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“If there is a single theme to this year’s Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report,” announced Secretary of State John F Kerry in the presentation of the fresh off the presses 2016 TIP report, “it is the conviction that there is nothing inevitable about trafficking in human beings. That conviction is where the process of change …
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A Year in Focus – March 31st 2016 – Transparency, Supply Chains, and the Modern Day Slavery Act 2015. The year in focus in this instance is based on the anniversary of March 2015. For in this particular month – on the 26th March 2015, the UK government initiated through legislation, a deviation from …
Earlier this year, before Olympic fever spread across the globe, the United States Department of State’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons released the 2012 Trafficking in Persons Report (‘TIP Report’). The Report, issued in June each year in accordance with the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, sets out to provide a …
Our thanks to Advocate Beatri Kruger who works in at the Free State University in South Africa for the following update on South Africa where the legislature is developing its response to Human Trafficking – she informs us about the following news released yesterday. Human trafficker Adina dos Santos was sentenced to life imprisonment at …
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There is a “looming potential explosion of human trafficking around the Super Bowl,” Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott was reported as saying by Newsweek yesterday. Certainly there is strong evidence that during the Superbowl when over 100,000 fans descend on the designated city, cases of super-exploitation within the sex industry arise, and within that mix …
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