Turkish pushback survivor wins landmark case against Greece
In a groundbreaking ruling, the European Court of Human Rights finds Greece ‘systematically’ practices pushbacks
FEATURE | How migration became a criminal offence
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureCaught in the net: how migration became a criminal offenceUK and EU governments are targeting people crossing borders in the name of ‘counter-smuggling’
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: OpinionWe saved lives at sea. So why did Italy detain our boat?We were fined and our boat blocked after we rescued 114 people. It’s a political campaign to make movement illegal
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureChildren prosecuted as adult ‘smugglers’ in UK, Italy, GreeceGovernments are locking teenagers up in a bid to catch smugglers – and failing vulnerable kids in the process
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: OpinionGreece accused me of espionage. I was helping people they'd violatedI supported people who’d been violently pushed back from Greece to Turkey – and was accused of being a criminal spy
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: OpinionStarmer’s counter-terror plan for migration woefully misses the markThere's no smuggling 'kingpin' to take down. Instead, Labour’s security rhetoric risks putting more people in danger
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: InterviewI sought safety in the UK. I was sent to prison insteadI was labelled a ‘smuggler’ and spent over two years in prison for touching the tiller on a dinghy. That’s not justice
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureEU migration strategy: treat migrants like the mafiaDeploying ‘anti-mafia’ tactics against migrants and those standing in solidarity with them is solving nothing
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureMigrants’ rights workers forced out of Tunisia in latest crackdownTunisian authorities have targeted civil society actors for ‘financial crimes’ and brutally deported refugees
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureSmuggling is back out in the open in Niger. What’s the impact on migrants?After an anti-smuggling law was repealed, much of smuggling was decriminalised – research suggests migrants are safer
FEATURE | Are seasonal workers a solution for migrant labour?
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureSeasonal worker visas are tying migrants into exploitationGovernments pretend seasonal visas are a 'triple win', but their design puts migrant labourers at severe risk
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: OpinionExploitation embedded in Spain’s seasonal worker programmeMajority female workers face abuse and isolation on Spain’s farms. Urgent policy changes are needed
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: OpinionMigrant workers demand justice after abuse, exploitation in CanadaStrict rules tying workers to their employers and insufficient complaints procedures often leave people trapped
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: OpinionSeasonal worker visa puts migrants at risk on UK farmsDon’t be fooled: the UK’s seasonal worker visa for migrant labourers is not a ‘safe route’
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: OpinionNon-citizen workers still exploited in Israel, despite court rulingThe Israeli Supreme Court banned visas that bind seasonal workers to their employers, but the practice continues
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: OpinionIsrael is going backwards on protecting migrant workersIsrael once tried to clean up its seasonal worker programme, but has now lost interest in protecting migrant workers
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: OpinionThe harsh reality of seasonal labour in GermanyWorkers are coming from ever further afield to pick German crops, but what they see when they get there shocks them
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: OpinionDid Brexit unleash new suffering on UK farms?The seasonal worker visa made the UK’s migrant agricultural workforce more vulnerable to exploitation
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: OpinionWhy I quit being a migrant farm worker in the UKNobody deserves to be treated like seasonal workers are, least of all the people keeping this nation fed
FEATURE | Getting to a basic income in the heartlands of neoliberalism
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureIt's time for a welfare revolution in the UKBasic income and services would reimagine welfare, our leaders just need the courage try something new
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: OpinionPut the whole government to work rebuilding BritainIt’s going to take all departments pulling together to get this country back on track
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: OpinionDoes Labour dare to renew the welfare state?The 1945 Labour Manifesto was a startling feat of political imagination. Does Starmer have the courage to go big again?
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: OpinionWill Scotland be the first to guarantee a minimum income?Imagine a country where nobody’s income falls below a certain floor. Scotland is trying to build just that
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: OpinionSustainable welfare for a sustainable planetThe economy must provide sustainable welfare to stay within planetary boundaries. UBI and UBS show us the way
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: OpinionFrom dogma to data: a centrist case for pragmatic welfare reformUniversal basic income and services get a lot of press these days. But does the evidence back up the hype?
FEATURE | Can we trust tech companies to rid us of online abuse?
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: OpinionFirst I was trafficked, then the internet immortalised itAt 14 I was assaulted. It was filmed and put online. The images, real and AI deepfakes, continue to haunt me
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: OpinionI was groomed online. People, not tech, got me outHigh-tech solutions couldn’t have saved me from abuse – only community support and education can do that
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: OpinionSharing sex workers’ images without consent is abuseFor sex workers, safety on the internet can mean life and death. It’s time we put a stop to digital violence
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: ReviewAnora: a refreshingly radical depiction of sex work on filmSex workers rarely receive respect in film. Anora’s attempt to change that should be celebrated
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: AnalysisSex workers need the police to do better, not moreWe know policing often harms sex workers. We need to talk about what it would take to change tack
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: OpinionThe wage slaves of the Kafala systemDespite attempts at reform, the Kafala system in Gulf countries is still custom-built to exploit workers
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: OpinionThe Grinch who stole Anti-Slavery DayCan you believe it? The UK’s Human Trafficking Foundation has jumped the shark straight into a dumpster fire
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureWhy is the UK sending Tamil refugees to Romania?The UK plans to hand some remote islands back to Mauritius, and relocate the Sri Lankan asylum seekers stuck there
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: Feature“We had to do something”: 10 years on the Med’s rescue hotlineAfter a decade running one of the busiest lines for people in distress at sea, Alarm Phone is needed more than ever
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: InterviewCan cities do what national governments won’t on basic income?What lessons could a municipal-level, basic income pilot in Brazil hold for the UK?
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: InterviewWhat can end the suffering of Black mothers and children in the US?The Abundant Birth Project in San Francisco is using basic income to help Black mothers and their children thrive
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: InterviewDirect cash transfers 'could halve child poverty' in OregonA universal yearly tax rebate – with similar principles to UBI – could drastically improve life in this US state
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: InterviewUBI could mean justice for everyone. How do we get there?A basic income could give everyone in society more options – but ethical and political challenges stand in the way
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: InterviewBasic income ‘won’t stop people working’: lessons from CanadaTwenty-five years of policy show that social support helps people thrive – and doesn’t disincentivise work
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: InterviewBasic income could put food banks out of businessSoaring income inequality has drastically increased food poverty in the UK. UBI could be a silver bullet
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: InterviewBasic income: why we need to start talking about moneyMany aren’t getting their basic needs met in the UK. UBI could change this – if we can believe we deserve it
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: InterviewCould a guaranteed income pave the way for racial justice?A UBI pilot supported over 100 formerly incarcerated people in Chicago. It could be a blueprint for reparations
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: Interview'Hope goes a long way': guaranteed income a lifeline for ex-prisonersA UBI program in Florida hopes to keep people out of prison through direct payments. They say it’s changing lives
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: InterviewUBI in the US ‘not just an idea’ – it’s achievableBasic income is becoming a bipartisan issue in the US, with Covid child tax credit showing that it can be done
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureCan tech ever rid us of online abuse? Does it even want to?A whole industry exists to combat abuse and grooming online, but can we trust it to ever find a ‘solution’?
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureLibya migrant rescue centre set to open despite rights abusesThe EU-funded centre would coordinate rescues in the Med, but will it give Libya a free pass for violations?
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: OpinionWhy wait until the robots take our jobs? We need a basic income nowAI and tech developments are already pushing people into more precarious work, but UBI could cushion the transition
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: OpinionDon’t expect Labour to take progressive steps on immigration detentionDefund Hate in the US offers stark lessons to anti-detention campaigners in the UK
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: OpinionLabour offers little hope to migrants locked up without end dateWhoever forms the next government is unlikely to end indefinite detention – despite inherent cruelty of practice
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: OpinionLabour has learned nothing from Tory mistakes on migrationGreens, SNP and Lib Dems all propose largely decent immigration policies. Labour should read them
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: OpinionThe next government must dismantle our racist asylum systemPeople of colour face disproportionate abuse in the UK’s asylum system. This racial injustice has to be addressed
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: OpinionI escaped an authoritarian regime. I don’t feel safer in the UKThe Rwanda deportation plan is designed to keep asylum seekers living in a state of fear – we must resist it
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: OpinionDo we really need a Global Commission on Modern Slavery?Theresa May’s attempt at a legacy project won’t save anybody from ‘modern slavery’. But since it’s here, we have a...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: AnalysisEU-migration by way of Russia: is Moscow or Brussels to blame?Fortress Europe’s walls are thickest and deadliest on the southern borders. Some migrants are heading north instead