America Bears Responsibility for Libya’s Slave Auctions
The emergence of slave auctions in Libya have a basis in catastrophic Western military intervention.
A Labor Trafficking Survivor Speaks Out
A new report helps quantify the abusive patterns experienced by survivors of human trafficking by following the stories of over 100 domestic workers.
Report Release: Findings From the Beyond Survival Campaign
Learn about the impact of Trump’s immigration enforcement policies on survivors of labor trafficking and hear their ideas on what policy solutions must be adopted in this new era.
Panama Papers Expose the Hidden Wealth of the World’s Super-Rich
This massive leak of transactions involving 214,488 offshore corporations, covering 40 years of activity, will boost the global movement to recapture trillions of the hidden wealth of nations.
When Services Allow Organizing, Trafficked Workers Win
Migrant workers need rights and safety nets, yet sob stories of abuse will not bring about such change. Organizing, on the other hand, will.
Brown Bag: Beyond Survival
As a member of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, IPS’ Global Economy project will launch a new campaign report for organizing to end human trafficking of domestic workers.
Bangladeshi Workers Organize to Protect Their Most Valuable Export: Themselves
Migrant domestic workers from Bangladesh enjoy little protection from their government, but they’re not alone.
Author Event: Life Interrupted
IPS’ Break The Chain Campaign and Teaching for Change Bookstore will host Denise Brennan author of a new book on trafficking into forced labor in the united states.
Waiting for Wendy’s
Wendy’s should join its competitors and participate in the Fair Food Program.
Russia and China Fail to Meet Minimum Standards in Human Trafficking
They had been on the State Department’s watch list, but were further downgraded in this years’s Trafficking in Persons report.
Empire, Capitalism, and Human Trafficking in Northeast Asia
The crisis of people-trafficking and sexual exploitation in Northeast Asia is not a nationalist issue; it is a gender issue.
Human Trafficking and Immigration: The Ties That Bind
President Obama has declared January as “National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month,” and immigration will be near the top of President Obama’s political agenda in his second term.
Key Facts from “The Dual Mandate: Immigration Enforcement and Human Trafficking”
Between 14,500 and 17,500 persons are trafficked into the country each year and that approximately 50,000 trafficked individuals may be present at any given time.
Film: Half the Sky
Join us for a film in a series about “Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide”, with a post screening panel featuring IPS’ Advocacy Director for Break The Chain projec, Tiffany Williams.
A Step Forward for Guestworkers in the United States
Earlier this month, the Department of Labor announced new protections for guestworkers with a temporary work permit.