Human Trafficking Podcasts

This weekend marks the anniversary of the Slavery Abolition Act which came into force in 1833. The law abolished slavery throughout what was known as the British Empire. To mark the event, a short memorial service was held at London's Westminster Abbey on Saturday. For many campaigners the fight to rid the world of modern slavery continues today. RFI’s Daniel Finnan spoke to Aidan McQuade, the director of Anti Slavery International.

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As we remember anniversary of Slavery Abolition Act, we must continue fight against modern slavery

In what continues to be a historic year of change, the Cambridge Festival of Ideas explores some of the great movements in history and scans the horizon for flows of the future. Join some of the brightest minds and engage with the movement of ideas, technology, people, politics, music and more.

08d Feature: Human trafficking - transnational partnership

HKS Lecturer Siddharth Kara of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy explains how his research into the tens of millions of girls around the world who have been forced into sexual slavery led him to Hollywood, where he wrote and produced the new feature film “Trafficked.” The film, based on true stories, follows three enslaved teens who end up in a Texas brothel after being trafficked across the globe.

Telling the True Story of Human Trafficking | PolicyCast

Tara Winkler and Sinet Chan give opening statements to Australia's Modern Slavery Inquiry

Published September 9, 2017 -- Get insider advice for enjoying Naples -- home to what has to be the liveliest street scene in Italy -- without feeling put off by its in-your-face energy. Then listen in as a leading expert on international terrorism explains how and why groups such as ISIS and Al Qaeda have turned to human trafficking and kidnapping. Plus, hear a tour guide from Oslo's freshest tips for visiting Norway&#39;s nature-loving, eco-friendly, and expensive capital city. For more information on Travel with Rick Steves - including episode descriptions, program archives and related details - visit www.ricksteves.com.

Naples; Human Trafficking; What's New in Oslo

Can 19th-century approaches to slavery provide a map for thinking about 21st century trafficking? In this episode, Anna Mae Duane (UConn)leads a dialogue about how we can--and can’t--bring the nineteenth century to bear on the current phenomenon largely referred to as “Modern Slavery”--a term that is itself deeply controversial. The conversation centers around the edited collection, Child Slavery Before and After Emancipation: An Argument for Child-Centered Slavery Studies (Cambridge UP, 2017). Editor Anna Mae Duane interviews three contributors to that project, Karen Sánchez-Eppler (Amherst), Micki McElya (UConn) and Sarah Winter (UConn). Together they think about what constitutes a usable past when thinking about modern forms of oppression, and about how focusing on children can help us to rethink questions of property, memory, and freedom.

The episode was produced by Ali Oshinskie with the support of WHUS studios. Post-production assistance by Doug Guerra.

Season One

S01E03 | "Modern Slavery"? How 19th Century Slavery Can Speak to 21st Century Trafficking

Forced labor, human trafficking and modern slavery in international law, by Prof. Magaly Rodriguez Garcia (KU Leuven)

Forced labour, Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery in International Law

Genevieve LeBaron and Kevin Bales, of the Gilder Lehrman Center's Modern Slavery Working Group join Tom Thurston on this episode of Slavery and Its Legacies.

Genevieve LeBaron and Kevin Bales on Forced Labor and Modern Slavery

Human trafficking is not something unique to third world counties. It is happening right here. BYUI student reporter Bryanna Willis was able to talk to Luci Garner about her article on human trafficking.

Human Trafficking

Gunther Peck joins Slavery and Its Legacies to discuss the long history of human trafficking and its relationship to the evolution of racial ideology, humanitarian intervention, and immigration policy.

Gunther Peck on Race, Empire, and History in Contemporary Campaigns to Abolish Human Trafficking

Is trafficking of people in the Pacific a misunderstood issue? What factors complicate knowing what is really going on? 

What about the geographical nature of the Pacific does this hinder efforts to detect the trafficking? Are there any trends or emerging issues in human trafficking in the Pacific and what is call to action.

We asked Benjamin Smith from  the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime. As UNODC's Regional Coordinator for Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling in the Southeast Asia and the Pacific he is well placed to discuss.

Is there Human Trafficking in the Pacific - We asked the UN Office on Drugs and Crime

Elena Shih and Andrew Crane join Thomas Thurston to discuss critiques and observations on contemporary solutions to human trafficking.

Elena Shih and Andrew Crane on Contemporary Solutions to Human Trafficking

Grace Peña Delgado and David Blight join host Thomas Thurston to discuss Borders, Modern Slavery, and the Modern Slavery Working Group.

Grace Peña Delgado and David Blight on Borders, Modern Slavery, and the Modern Slavery Working Group

Thomas Thurston is joined in conversation with Jennifer (JJ) Rosenbaum and Gunther Peck as they discuss the connections between labor and human trafficking.

Jennifer (JJ) Rosenbaum and Gunther Peck on Labor and Human Trafficking

Seminar: ‘The business of modern slavery: forced migration and forced labour in a failed state’
Speaker: Professor Brad K Blitz (Middlesex University London)

RSC Seminar, 31 October 2018 
RSC Public Seminar Series, Michaelmas Term 2018
Series convened by Professor Matthew Gibney, Professor Cathryn Costello, Professor Tom Scott-Smith

About the seminar 
This seminar describes how slavery like situations may occur in transit states. It develops Arendt’s analysis of xenophobic crystallisation to show how under conditions of rightlessness, the interests of the ‘mob’ and capital may give way to economic exploitation and slavery. Drawing upon data gathered as part of an ESRC funded project which included a study of 300 migrants who crossed from Libya to Sicily, it describes how migrants may become increasingly vulnerable to abuse over the course of the migratory process and eventually find themselves absorbed into informal situations of forced labour.  It notes how in the absence of governance, opportunistic and often small scale business has exploited the presence of labour in Libya, at times in concert with the police and government authorities and at times in opposition to them. This arbitrary situation is enabled as a result of a symbiotic relationship between employers and the police, built on the circularity of bribes and a shared animosity towards non-Muslim migrants. 

About the speaker 
Brad K. Blitz. received his Ph.D. in International Development and Education from Stanford University. In April 2013 he took up the post of Deputy Dean and Professor of International Politics in the Middlesex University Law School. Brad has extensive experience of international education as both a student and academic programme leader. During the course of his education, he studied in Belgium, France, Russia, the USA and United Kingdom. He later directed an international Masters programme with partners in Jamaica, Mexico, and the USA and has written about education exchanges in the context of European integration. 
    A former Jean Monnet Chair in Political Geography at Oxford Brookes University and Research Associate in the Department of International Development, University of Oxford, he is widely regarded as a leading expert on post conflict integration, statelessness, migration, development and human rights. He has acted as an advisor and consultant to UNDP, UNICEF, the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the World Bank, OSCE, Council of Europe, DFID, and the Russian and Albanian governments and has appeared as an expert witness advising UK and Australian courts, on over 20 occasions. In 2008 the former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and former President of Ireland, Mary Robinson, and a panel of experts, selected his research as one of 12 projects which would guide and support the legacy of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. 
    Recent publications include Statelessness in the European Union: Displaced, Undocumented and Unwanted, Cambridge University Press, 2011; and Statelessness and Citizenship: A Comparative Study on the Benefits of Nationality, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011. In 2011, he completed a US State Department funded project 'Measuring the Costs of Statelessness', a livelihoods study of 980 stateless and formerly stateless households in Bangladesh, Kenya, Slovenia, and Sri Lanka, which will be published by Edward Elgar Publishing in 2014. He also contributed to UNDP's Asia-Pacific Human Development Report and is the author of Migration and Freedom: Mobility, Citizenship, Exclusion, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2014. 
   
Photo: Asylum-seekers leaving Lesvos after the Government authorised them to continue procedures on mainland Greece. Credit: UNHCR/Yorgos Kyvernitis

The business of modern slavery: forced migration and forced labour in a failed state | Brad K Blitz

"World Day against Trafficking in Persons"
Millions of victims fall into the hands of traffickers—even in our own neighborhoods. See how CCCF is helping prevent this global problem and aiding those affected. (Official date: July 30th).

Mercy in Action: World Day against Trafficking In Persons E9

The number of human trafficking victims globally is as many as the inhabitants of Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Croatia, and Hungary combined. While human trafficking is often associated with (illegal) prostitution, about 25 million of these 40 million victims end up in labor exploitation situations — working in nail salons, nursery gardens, and restaurant kitchens, to name a few examples. One unique characteristic sets this group apart from other victimized populations: Many people exploited in work situations, don't realize they are victims. When nobody tells you about things like minimum wage and legal working hours, who are you to complain about your situation? One solution is to detect such cases proactively, so law enforcement doesn't have to wait for a formal victim statement. The University of Amsterdam, the&nbsp;Netherlands‘ Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment, and Dutch bank ABN AMRO have created a one-of-a-kind partnership to analyze bank data for suspicious activity that could pinpoint human trafficking. Subscribe on your favorite podcast app to receive future episodes of Forensic Finance.

How bank data analysis helps fight modern slavery

Many people who are exploited in work situations don't realize they are victims. When nobody tells you about things like minimum wage and legal working hours, how can you be helped? One solution is to detect such cases proactively, by following the digital fingerprints hidden in banking data. In this first episode of Forensic Finance, we look into this innovative new technology to tackle the $150 billion human trafficking industry.

The insiders around Ronald Reagan including fixer Roy Cohn and Estee Lauder billionaire, Ronald Lauder; Cohn’s influential power within the media, both print and broadcast, including many of his famous friends; Ronald Reagan’s ties to organized crime through Lew Wasserman and talent agency MCA; Ronald Lauder’s connections to the Mega Group, the World Jewish Congress and Israel; Jeffrey Epstein’s Austrian passport; the White House Call Boys Network during Bush senior’s administration; savings and loan scandals; the Franklin Cover-Up; FBI protecting pedophile rings; the Clintons’ connections to Iran/Contra while in Arkansas; Jackson Stephens’ complex financial web, connections to the Rose Law Firm, BCCI and Systematics; speculation as to why Jeffrey Epstein re-arrested on July 7th; the Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board SFFAS 56 – Classified Activities.

Aired: September 4, 2019

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Human Trafficking Podcasts

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