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    <title><![CDATA[Conference in London]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 09:13:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The media and NGOs have raised awareness of sex trafficking in recent years, but does it serve the interests of migrant sex workers to suggest they have been trafficked, or does it collude in their criminalisation and deportation? Should our priority... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[IOM]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 00:51:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Found in Infokiosques, an informative booklet on the IOM. And even if is dated back to 2003, it is very difficult to find critical information on this management machine. The International Organisation for Migration has been "managing" migration since... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Sex on the margins]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:12:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[In a time where ideas on prostitution, migration and trafficking are so overtly reductionistic and ideological, Laura Agustín's blog Border thinking on migration, culture, economy, sex and trafficking is a helpful source of complex and contextualising... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Pro-Fem]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:23:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Times are strange. Sarah Palin, a right-wing politician, pro-life, pro-abstinence, pro-arms , pro-capital punishment, and creationist is supposedly a... feminist ? A model to follow? Representative of many women in the US ? a future leader of her country?... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Sex Work is Different from Sex Slavery, aver Carnal Toilers]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:53:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[By MARTHA ROSENBERG N icholas Kristof was baffled. A year after the New York Times columnist rescued teenaged Cambodian prostitute Srey Mom from a Poipet brothel by purchasing her freedom for $203, she was back in the brothel. Voluntarily. In fact, she... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[filmography]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:19:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Promised Land 2004 Amos Gitaï A night in the Sinai desert. A group of men and women keep warm around a camp fire under the moonlight. The women come from Eastern Europe . The men, who normally walk their herds in the area, are Bedouins. Tomorrow, they... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Voices against Human Traffic]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 00:57:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I will consider the most challenging critiques to anti-trafficking interventions, which, not surprisingly, come in an organised form precisely from those who are normally excluded from the debate: sex workers rights’ groups. This dissent is based on two... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Trapped in a culture: the Veil]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 00:37:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Farzaneh Milani, professor of Persian literature and women’s studies at the University of Virginia, is also a Carnegie Fellow. On Women’s Captivity in the Islamic World In the unprecedented flourishing of writings about Islam in the United States in recent... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[La Rumeur d'Orléans]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 00:17:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The rumeur described in this book spread in 1969 in the town of Orleans and consisted in a story whereby innocent girls would be drugged in Jewish clothes shops and dragged through an underground tunnel system to be sold as sex slaves. Contacted by anti-racist... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[White Slavery and Human Traffic]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 00:03:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[White Slavery, a supposed “international traffic in European and North American women, in which women were moved into lives of sexual exploitation” is found recurrently as a topic around the beginning of the century. Legislation like the Mann Act was... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[160th Abolition of Slavery]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 11:31:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Veil and Empire]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 00:52:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Je te paye tu me satisfais]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 14:27:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA["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,... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Women on the Move]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 20:24:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The nobordernetwork has dedicated its latest Transnational Newsletter to the issue of Women on the Move. ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Daniela tears away the burqa with her high heel shoes]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:15:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[More porno, less TV]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:25:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[(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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Pute Pride]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2008 20:22:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The historicity of women's work migration]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 01:16:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Mann Act]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:37:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[White Slave Trade - Hysteria]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 02:03:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Projectethiopia]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 15:04:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Some of us went to Ethiopia in November 2007, and spent the month doing some research on Ethiopian women leaving for Arab countries, especially Beirut (which in Ethiopa means a different place from Lebanon). And we discovered a lot of interesting things... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Las empleadas de hogar contarán con contrato de trabajo escrito e indefinido]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 09:42:03 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[LUCÍA ABELLÁN - Madrid - 16/10/2007 Las empleadas de hogar deberán firmar un contrato con sus empleadores y tendrán derecho a que sea fijo. El Gobierno prepara una norma, con intención de que entre en vigor en 2008, para ampliar los derechos de este colectivo,... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Museum of Immigration - Paris]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2007 20:15:00 +0200</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Maids: The Untold Story]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:12:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Maids - the untold story. It seems rather like a usual story if one cares to inform oneself, but here it is to listen: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/documentary_archive/6925530.stm ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Diary of a Maid in the Gulf]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 15 Sep 2007 23:23:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I just finished reading "Diary of a Maid in the Gulf" written by Dr. Mohammed al-Taunagi. I do not really think it will get translated into English soon, so you won't mind if I tell you how it ends, do you? Juana, a coy, Christian Filipino girl pays with... ]]></description>
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