As we draw to a close on our extensive field work of the past two and a half years, we are taking stock of our progress in our quest to understand and explore the role of faith in shaping responses to anti-trafficking. Our focus has been on collecting data across three terrains of anti-trafficking practice: service…
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Anti-trafficking imagery is designed to be troubling and arresting. Images used in anti-modern slavery campaigns and communications are hugely dominated by depictions of chains or ropes, or people with exposed flesh and marked skin. Dominant anti-trafficking images too often objectify and victimise the people the organisations using them seek to support. This risks ‘secondary exploitation’…
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The foundation stage of our research is to map organisations active in anti-trafficking service provision and campaigning in the UK. If you are involved in a project or organisation involved in anti-trafficking, we’d like to make sure you’re in our ‘map’. Please email us. Thanks.
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For the last several years, there has been growing awareness, and increased activity, around the issues of human trafficking and modern slavery. There are many overlapping definitions, and so, estimations of the scale of these problems also vary. The International Labour Organization estimates that there are 2.5 million people in sexual or labour exploitation worldwide…
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There is an urgency of response to an ostensibly growing issue of human trafficking and modern slavery. Faith-based organisations have an increasingly visible role in responses to human trafficking, not just through awareness raising among faith congregations, but also as recipients of statutory and charitable funds to provide services to trafficked persons. Three principal terrains…
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