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160th Abolition of Slavery

human trafficking and modern slavery

Our work for the last three years has never explicitly worked on the issue of human traffic or esclavage moderne. It has always been focused on the experience of migrant women, leaving their countries to work in other countries. But I can assure that...

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Veil and Empire

veil & empire

Following my tour of Feltrinelli Bookstore on Genoa's Via Venti looking for Santanche's pamphlets, I visited French Fnac in Chatelet and found they also had an impressive display of (muslim) women's ordeals for sale. The issues surrounding muslim women...

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Je te paye tu me satisfais

sexwork

"King Kong Theory" rocks. One of Despentes only non-fiction accounts, the book discusses controversial issues in feminism like sex, rape or pornography, gives straightforward answers (well, it is Virginie Despentes) and describes her own experience. Prostitution,...

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Women on the Move

globalisation and migration

The nobordernetwork has dedicated its latest Transnational Newsletter to the issue of Women on the Move.

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Daniela tears away the burqa with her high heel shoes

veil & empire

Unveiling Racism: Last November in Ethiopia , we filmed a conference by three Rastafari of Sheshemane on their presence in Ethiopia . Sister Isheba Tafari explained that her decision to wrap her hair nearly amounted to a crime back in her native Austria...

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More porno, less TV

sexwork

(a sunday afternoon rant) Although arguably all tv is comparably rancid, Italian television stands for particularly sexist depictions of women. Back in the beginning of the 90s, when Berlusconi's mediaset arrived in Spain with their Tele 5 channel, the...

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Pute Pride

sexwork

Once again the Pute Pride took place in march. Meeting under red umbrellas on a rainy saturday afternoon in Pigalle. It's fun to march, not only do they have the best slogans of all, they are all dressed beautifully and the tourists and sunday strollers...

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The historicity of women's work migration

globalisation and migration

Two numbers of the Revue Tiers-Monde have come into my hands. They show changing interests in the study of migration. While in the 1977 - Migrations et Développement issue, the issue of women's work migration is not addressed, the issue of 2002 - Femmes...

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The Mann Act

sexwork

The disclosure that New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer had been hiring the services of a sex worker has caused a major scandal in the US this week. Famous for heading the State's Organized Crime Task Force and therefore involved in the prosecution of "prostitution...

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White Slave Trade - Hysteria

white slavery

A friend just sent me the most interesting article on human traffic I have read in a long long time. Jazbinsek from the Working Group on Metropolitan Studies in the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin analyses: White Slavery Trade. Biography of a Social Problem...

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