23 April 2014: A factory farmed chicken fillet may seem a bargain, but what about the true cost? From environmental pollution to animal welfare, from a human health crisis to trafficking for forced labour in food processing plants. It adds … Continue reading
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Poem: The Trafficking of Children for Sexual Exploitation
24 January 2014: In every country of the world, there are thousands of children subject to domestic and international human trafficking for sexual exploitation. All the cases mentioned in this poem are based on true stories.Their childhoods have gone. Some never had one at all. Read … Continue reading
UN Commission on the Status of Women 2014, UK Preparatory Meeting
5 November 2013: On 28 October, I joined members of the UK Government and civil society to plan representation at the world’s most significant women’s rights platform, the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. The 58th session (CSW58) takes … Continue reading
Copywriting for UNICEF Research for Children 2013
18 October 2013: UNICEF’s Office of Research in Florence has published the first systematic attempt to showcase the breadth and depth of UNICEF’s research work from around the world. I was given the task of writing the publication and summarising … Continue reading
Shadow City: Exposing Human Trafficking in Everyday London
14 October 2013: I researched and wrote the Return on Investment section for the report Shadow City: Exposing Human Trafficking in Everyday London by Andrew Boff of the Greater London Authority. Published today, the report examines some of the more … Continue reading
Nepal: Institutionalisation and the Children of Sex Trafficking Victims
18 September 2013: A background article on sex trafficking from Nepal to India, and the institutionalisation of children in Nepal. Repatriated children of sex trafficking victims often face institutionalisation, both as part of life in India’s brothels and then again … Continue reading
Human trafficking and international law
20 May 2013: Trafficking in persons was codified as long ago as 1910 by the “International Agreement for the suppression of the White Slave Traffic”. One hundred years later, key instruments include The UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking … Continue reading
Radio interviews on witchcraft and trafficking
30 October 2012: Elizabeth’s 3 minute radio interview with BBC World Service – Newsday, on the imprisonment for 20 years of Osezua Osolase who carried out Juju witchcraft on teenage girls he trafficked from Nigeria to Europe for enforced prostitution. … Continue reading
Ties that bind: African witchcraft and contemporary slavery
17 September 2012: In Africa, witchcraft has become inextricably linked to the trafficking in persons for exploitation. However this is not an African problem, but a problem of abuse which extends across the globe. The common factor linking witchcraft and human … Continue reading
Adopting from Africa, Saving the Children?
12 July 2012 Intercountry adoption is viewed either as a philanthropic gesture providing a loving family and lifeline to destitute orphans in impoverished nations, or as child trafficking to meet Western demand for the right kind of adoptable child within the … Continue reading
