2020 marked the five-year anniversary of the signing of the ASEAN Convention Against Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children (the Convention).
The ASEAN-Australia Counter Trafficking Programme (ASEAN ACT) is a 10-year partnership funded by the Australian Government that works with ASEAN Member States to support the implementation of the Convention, particularly those obligations that protect and uphold victim rights and advance gender equality and social inclusion.
As a way of marking the Convention’s five-year anniversary, this Report looks at the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Annual Reports that the ASEAN Member States have published in 2020.
Each year, hundreds of thousands of workers from Uttar Pradesh travel to jobs in Qatar, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Saudi Arabia, as well as to other neighboring countries in the Middle East and North Africa region such as Jordan. These work...Read More
Women, the elderly, adolescents, youth, and children, persons with disabilities, indigenous populations, refugees, migrants, and minorities experience the highest degree of socio-economic marginalization. Marginalized people become even more vulnera...Read More
This study documents women garment workers’ experiences of gender- based violence and harassment (GBVH) in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic in Asian production countries. It elaborates “economic harm” as a form of GBVH, underscoring how the b...Read More
Findings and Recommendations from the first year of The Passage’s Anti-Slavery Project. Written by Dr Júlia Tomás. The report looks at the experiences of homelessness organisations across England in working with victims of modern slavery who...Read More
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