Peoples for Human Rights Volume 10, December 2006
Human Trafficking and Racism
- Exploring the Links between Marginalization and Exploitative Migration
CONTENTS
Preface (Nimalka Fernando)
Part One: Contextualizing Human Trafficking in the Global Era
Human Trafficking, Human Insecurity, and Exploitative Migration
(Kinhide Mushakoji)
Migration and Human Trafficking in Sub-Saharan Africa: Exploring the Gender and Poverty Links (Thanh-Dam Truong)
Trafficking in Children: Lack of Reliable Data Leads to Invisibility for Myriads of Trafficked Children and Youth (Helene Sackstein)
Part Two: Ground-based Observations on Human Trafficking, Racism and Marginalization
Discrimination and Racism – Root Causes of Trafficking in Nepal
(Renu Rajhandari)
Human Trafficking, Racism and Minority Rights – The Situation in West Africa
(Bisi Olateru-Olagbegi)
Migration and Human Trafficking in Latin America: The Cultural Impact on Indigenous Communities (Lina Cahuasquí)
Trafficking in Japan: Racism Hindering Victims’/Survivors’ Access to Help for Human Rights Abuses (Nanako Inaba)
Sexual Trafficking of Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada (Erin Wolski)
Part Three: Addressing the Problem – Local, Regional and International Initiatives
Women Returnees as Agents of Change and Hope: The Story of the Batis Center for Women and the Filipina Entertainers to Japan (Andrea Luisa C. Anolin)
From Victimization to Empowerment: Experiences at KALAKASAN Migrant Women Empowerment Center (Leny Tolentino)
Regional Cooperation to Combat Trafficking in South Asia (Nimalka Fernando)
Human Rights and Human Wrongs: The Case of Trafficking in Persons
(Jyoti Sanghera)
Appendix 1: Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons
Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime
Appendix 2: Recommended Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Human Trafficking: Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to the Economic and Social Council Addendum

IMADR’s journal, Peoples for Human Rights, is aimed at raising awareness, sparking debate, and expanding networks among international audiences - especially activists, academics/researchers and policymakers. Peoples for Human Rights tackles the themes of racism, racial discrimination and multiple discrimination from a range of viewpoints, both theoretical and practical, with contributions from around the world.
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