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Prevention of modern slavery within sex work: Study protocol of a mixed methods project looking at the role of adult services websites. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2023
Keighley R, Sanders T.
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In my opinion: Increasing black engagement with wildlife: Historical context, educational gaps, and opportunities for inclusive conservation

Wildlife Society Bulletin, EarlyView.
Abstract Limited engagement between Black Americans and wildlife is often treated as cultural disinterest rather than the outcome of historical exclusion, racialized trauma, or persistent structural barriers. This perspective obscures the long‐standing relationships Black communities have had with land, agriculture, and conservation, and constrains ...
Maya Walker, Sophie Phillips, Christopher K. Williams   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Roots and Trajectories of ,Modern Slavery’ in Qatar

, 2021
In the Gulf states, the widespread phenomenon of labour migration is controlled by means of the so-called kafāla system since the 1960s. This sponsorship system grants Gulf Arabs comprehensive control over their migrant ‘guest workers’.
Rowitz, Laura Elena
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THE ROLE AND STRATEGY OF THE ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN NATIONS (ASEAN) IN PROTECTING MIGRANT FISHERS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA AGAINST MODERN SLAVERY

Malaysian Journal of Syariah and Law
The issue of contemporary slavery within the fishing sector has afflicted the region for decades. The situation is difficult due to the cross-territorial jurisdiction of other nations.
Belardo Prasetya Mega Jaya, Muhammad Rusli Arafat, Asep Hakim Zakiran, Mohd Hazmi Mohd Rusli, Fareed Mohd Hassan, Noor Dzuhaidah Osman, Amalina Ahmad Tajudin   +6 more
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A Quantised Push‐Sum Distributed Adaptive Momentum Algorithm for Optimisation Over Directed Networks

CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we investigate a distributed constrained optimisation problem over directed networks. The agents in the networks conduct local computations and communications, endeavouring to collaboratively minimise the aggregation of all locally known convex cost functions subject to a global constraint set.
Qingguo Lü, Mingyu Guan, Chenglong He, Chen Chen, Xiangguang Dai, Man‐Fai Leung, Wei Zhang   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Brazilian trafficking: soap opera versus reality [PDF]

Forced Migration Review, 2006
More than a hundred years after slavery was formally abolished in Brazil, a modern-day version thrives.
Luciana Campello R Almeida, Luiza Helena Leite, Frans Nederstigt   +2 more
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Ecclesiastics and Indigenous Slavery on the Frontier: The Case of Chile in the 16th and 17th Centuries

Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History, 2023
This article reviews ecclesiastical opinions on Indigenous slavery in early modern Chile, the southernmost frontier of the Spanish Empire. Generally, historiography has only analyzed missionary relations with the Mapuche people on the Mapuche-Hispanic ...
Constanza López Lamerain
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The unequal impact of Covid-19 on the lives and rights of the children of modern slavery survivors, children in exploitation and children at risk of entering exploitation. [PDF]

Child Soc, 2022
Jiménez E, Brotherton V, Gardner A, Wright N, Browne H, Esiovwa N, Dang M, Wyman E, Bravo-Balsa L, Lucas B, Gul M, Such E, Trodd Z.   +12 more
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Towards a More Responsible Business School? Early Career Academics, Moral Identity Work and the Performative (Re)Constitution of the ‘Successful Academic’

British Journal of Management, EarlyView.
Abstract The role of business schools in exacerbating social and environmental issues has become increasingly apparent. However, substantive change is often stymied at both individual and institutional levels by a ubiquitous pressure on faculty members to conform to a specific embodiment of the ‘successful academic’.
Simon Oldham, Helen Wadham
wiley   +1 more source

Oxfam GB Statement on Modern Slavery for the Financial Year 2016/17

, 2017
The UK Modern Slavery Act 2015 requires organizations with a turnover of at least £36m to make a public statement on steps they are taking to identify and prevent modern slavery in their operations and supply chain.
Beck Wallace, Wallace, Beck, Cole-Hamilton, Alex, Alex Cole-Hamilton   +3 more
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