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 …
Dame Margaret Anstee: Shattering Ceilings, Championing Change Read More »
On the 5 December 2018, CCARHT Director Dr Pemberton Ford attended a hastily convened group of international scholars and students in London to explore how higher education can contribute more effectively in the fight for resistance to Human Trafficking. As one of eight around the table for a thematic …
“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 …
Top TiP from the US 2016 – Ask the right questions Read More »
Labour Trafficking and Multi Agency Cooperation TEAMWORK! A recent report from the Netherlands just out – TEAMWORK – is a comprehensive tool kit, designed to strengthen multidisciplinary cooperation against trafficking for labour exploitation in the EU. The report was developed in co-operation with a panel of experts gathered from Luxembourg, Slovakia and Malta, (countries which …
TEAMWORK – Multi-agency co-operation what is working Read More »
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 …
