Old Chestnuts revisited : the link between quality Victim Support and effective Prosecutions

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 …

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Royal attention to Human Trafficking agenda convened by Association of Commonwealth Universities

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 …

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What’s in a counter Trafficking Toolkit?

The Office of the UK Anti Slavery Commissioner’s office has just announced the provision of a ‘counter trafficking toolkit’ to facilitate easier co-operation across multiple agencies, public sector and business actors – but what makes an effective ‘tool kit’ nowadays? This particular ‘kit’, has been developed ‘to help guide practitioners in their work to tackle …

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Faith based communities – agents for improved civil society response?

  It is often argued that religion should steer well clear of politics and the economy – yet when it comes to Human Trafficking communities of faith have been deeply immersed in developing practical steps to respond to the cataclysm this represents to Human lives. These immediate steps of response – the steps which Christian …

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The costs of Human Trafficking – health, enforcement and lost years of employment

Freshly pressed from the Home Office utilising the methodology used in ‘The Economic and Social Costs of Crime’ (Heeks et al., 2018) adapting where necessary to reflect some of the particular characteristics of this offence type. The report6 utilises the QALY (Quality Adjusted Life Year) methodology which estimates the costs of the physical and emotional …

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The Central Mediterranean Route and the ‘LARS’ proposal

Since 2011, Italy has been the locus of a massive rise in onward migration from North Africa, sourced from across the sub-Sahel, as well as from South and Central Asia, and the horn of Africa. In 2016 there were 181,436 arrivals in Italy by sea. Of these there was an estimated 30,000 minors present in …

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The ‘rights’ and trafficked exploitations of sexual labour – new call for papers.

A fresh perspective is being called for by the Anti Trafficking Review, convened by Dr Annalee Lepp – the chair of the Women’s Studies department at the University of Victoria and co-founder and current director of the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women Canada. Dr Lepp deploys a human rights centric, “do no harm” approach …

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Resources for Supply Chain evening #2020vision

This Tuesday 20th March 2018 around 120 business, charity sector, monitoring bodies and faith leaders will be attending our symposium on Supply Chains and the work which is well underway to address the multiple challenges of inequalities, trafficking, exploitation, forced and child labour embedded within them. We are pulling together a number of key resources …

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Supply Chains in focus – Just Share collaboration with CCARHT March 20th 2018

Supply Chains in focus – Just Share collaboration with CCARHT March 20th 2018 Collaboration is what effective work in addressing Human Trafficking at every level is all about. So here at CCARHT we are really delighted to be sharing with JUST SHARE, and the St Paul’s Institute to put on an evening of engagement with …

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What changes people’s minds in the discourse on Refugees?

  This important week-end (13th – 14th January 2018) draws our attention to the plight of Refugees and those in Migration across the globe) Oxfam Humanitarian Policy Adviser Ed Cairns reflects on using evidence to influence the treatment of refugees *   Who thinks that governments decide what to do on refugees after carefully considering …

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