JOURNAL OF MODERN SLAVERY
A Multidisciplinary Exploration of Human Trafficking Solutions
Volume 4, Issue 1, Summer 2018
ISSN: 2574-9897
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The Developments of Trafficking in Women in Post-Revolution Tunisia
Racha Haffar, M.A.
Abstract
The Tunisian Uprising of 2011 played as a catalyst in relation to the development of trafficking in women into reaching today’s notions, categories and numbers of victims. The increase in the rate of female victims of trafficking at the local and transnational levels has urged the Tunisian authorities to pay more attention to the shortcomings of the laws and the legal national framework in general. This study will discuss the historical and legal developments of the issue of trafficking in women in Tunisia. It will explore the case studies of certain categories of local and transnational female victims and focus on the re-victimization of women throughout the trafficking process and after. My research will depend basically on first-hand resources for accurate, yet new information, statistics and testimonies. I obtained my information through interviewing governmental and non-governmental officials. I have reached out to all concerned civil society actors who work on the issue of trafficking for statistics and data relevant to victims and traffickers and also in an attempt to know the role these actors play in fighting trafficking. This research depends on official data from different governmental bodies, mainly the Ministry of Interior and Justice. I am using also newspapers articles and things written on the different forms of internal and transnational trafficking in Tunisia like the Jihad al-Nikah3 and forced prostitution, and others examples. I managed to collect data through conducting interviews with officials, getting statistics and having access to law cases from Tunisian courts.
Understanding Child Trafficking within Ghana: Stakeholders’ Perspective
Emma Seyram Hamenoo and Efua Esaaba Mantey Agyire-Tettey
Abstract
The importance of a shared understanding, endorsed in law (for instance 3), as to what constitutes child trafficking within a country cannot be over emphasized. Studies have shown that lack of clarity or existence of human trafficking definitions jeopardizes services rendered to victims.
Jennifer Bossard, Ph.D
Abstract
Bookends. They support and protect the books that lie in between. They preserve the content of the books, regardless of how good or bad it may be. If a book is deemed unsatisfactory, it can be replaced with a better one. In this paper, I show how consumers act as bookends for the production of goods and services. Between their initial desire for a product and their final purchase of that product, consumers support, protect, and preserve supply chains. Just as books can be good or bad, so too can supply chains – good ones are characterized by gainful employment and sustainability while bad ones are characterized by slavery and ecocide. If a supply chain is deemed unsatisfactory, then consumers, positioned at both ends of the production process, can use their influence to replace a bad one with a better one.
Daphne Catherine Spyropoulos, B.A.
Abstract
Sex-trafficking survivors that come from the Developing world and who become free in the west, can receive help from western psychotherapists. A therapist who is able to provide help to a former sex-slave of this origin is answering to a need for culturally competent mental health professionals. To serve this goal, the author analyses the example of Nigerian women who become free in the west and provides information about their background that could be useful in session. Parallel to this discussion, the question of whether cross-cultural differences can be overcome in therapy in an ethical way arises.
Chloé Brière, PhD, LLM
Abstract
Civil society involvement in counter-trafficking governance has substantially evolved, and today reaches an unprecedented level. The present paper aims at discussing different aspects of their involvement and their unique position across multiple levels of governance: i) their role in drafting legal instruments; ii) their role in EU’s policy and iii) their impact in securing the rights of victims, using the example of the trafficked person’s right not to be punished. We highlight that civil society actors, at all multi-governance levels from the global to the local, play an integral role in securing an effective comprehensive counter-trafficking response.