Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women

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Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women

Learning Brief: Who Gets to Tell the Story? Community-Led Media and Knowledge for Advocacy and Narrative Change

This learning brief is part of GAATW's Learning Circle series, peer-learning spaces where our members come together to share their practices, learn from one another and reflect on common challenges in their work. It brings together the reflections and discussions from our Fourth Learning Circle, where members explored how community-led storytelling, participatory research and other ways of producing knowledge can strengthen advocacy and influence from the ground up.

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Learning Brief: Who Gets to Tell the Story? Community-Led Media and Knowledge for Advocacy and Narrative Change

This learning brief is part of GAATW's Learning Circle series, peer-learning spaces where our members come together to share their practices, learn from one another and reflect on common challenges in their work. It brings together the reflections and discussions from our Fourth Learning Circle, where members explored how community-led storytelling, participatory research and other ways of producing knowledge can strengthen advocacy and influence from the ground up.

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From Punishment to Protection (of rights): A feminist analysis of trafficking for forced criminality in the ASEAN region

Trafficking for forced criminality has historically received less attention from international institutions, the media and the human rights sector. However, awareness of this form of trafficking is increasing globally. This briefing paper aims to support that growing recognition by examining how trafficking for forced criminality is occurring within the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) region.

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From Punishment to Protection (of rights): A feminist analysis of trafficking for forced criminality in the ASEAN region

Trafficking for forced criminality has historically received less attention from international institutions, the media and the human rights sector. However, awareness of this form of trafficking is increasing globally. This briefing paper aims to support that growing recognition by examining how trafficking for forced criminality is occurring within the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) region.

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Trafficking for Forced Criminality in Europe: Protection Gaps in an Era of Restrictive Migration Policy

This report is published at a time when punitive approaches to migration, crime and border control are increasing across Europe. For years, victims of trafficking for forced criminality have been  treated as offenders or ‘illegal immigrants’ rather than as rights holders who have experienced exploitation and coercion. Despite growing recognition of the scale and severity of trafficking for forced criminality across Europe,  institutional responses continue to fail at effective prevention, identification and protection. Whilst some governments in the last decade have introduced specific laws designed to protect victims of trafficking from punishment for the crimes they were forced to commit, the majority of these laws fall short of international standards, or are inconsistently implemented.

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Trafficking for Forced Criminality in Europe: Protection Gaps in an Era of Restrictive Migration Policy

This report is published at a time when punitive approaches to migration, crime and border control are increasing across Europe. For years, victims of trafficking for forced criminality have been  treated as offenders or ‘illegal immigrants’ rather than as rights holders who have experienced exploitation and coercion. Despite growing recognition of the scale and severity of trafficking for forced criminality across Europe,  institutional responses continue to fail at effective prevention, identification and protection. Whilst some governments in the last decade have introduced specific laws designed to protect victims of trafficking from punishment for the crimes they were forced to commit, the majority of these laws fall short of international standards, or are inconsistently implemented.

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