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Rights to Survival and Mobility: An Anti-Trafficking Activist’s Agenda

Document number
1881
Date
2008
Title
Rights to Survival and Mobility: An Anti-Trafficking Activist’s Agenda
Author/publisher
National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF)
Availability
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Document type(s)
Guidelines/Recommendations,
Keywords
Human Rights approach, Integrated approach; EU instruments; International Human Rights Law, International cooperation; Inter-organisational co-operation, Multi-agency approach, International law; Holistic approach, National Rapporteurs; Economy in transition, Youth employment, State socialism, Socio-Economic transition, Discrimination, Unemployment, Poverty, Community development, Social security, Social exclusion, Health care, Drugs abuse, Health, HIV/AIDS, Globalisation;
Summary
This agenda is divided into five parts. Part I looks at how factors such as poverty, inequality and globalization influence the growth of human trafficking and increase the vulnerability of Asian and Pacific Islander women to trafficking. Part II provides an overview of the ways that API women are trafficked, including different forms of forced labor and servile marriages. Part III highlights the United States' response to human trafficking, including federal, state and city legislation and efforts by non-governmental organizations to provide a network of social, legal and health services to survivors of human trafficking. Part IV examines the impact of U.S. anti-trafficking policies on API women and the limitations of the mainstream anti-trafficking movement. NAPAWF's progressive analysis on human trafficking is discussed in Part V. This section links the impacts of globalization, race, gender and class and other social justice struggles to the proliferation of human trafficking. Finally, the agenda concludes with eight recommendations designed to assist anti-trafficking advocates, policy makers, community leaders and NAPAWF chapters in advancing progressive policies and social agendas that look at trafficking as it affects Asian and Pacific Islander communities in the United States
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