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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
"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,...
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...
(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...
Today, women constitute almost half of all international migrants worldwide—95 million. Yet, despite contributions to poverty reduction and struggling economies, it is only recently that the international community has begun to grasp the significance...
I n an interview published in Vacarme 1999, Yann-Moulier Boutang presents his new book "économie historique du salariat bridé" and talks about minorities and social fights. It is joyous to read him, especially in the context of the issue we are dealing...
Migrant Women June 2003 By Ana Elena Obando, WHRnet Overview Although there are many reasons why women work abroad (war and economic, social and political situations, etc.), labor migration is directly related to the global economic and political model...
2002 United Nations INTEGRATION OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF WOMEN AND THE GENDER PERSPECTIVE Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, Ms. Radhika Coomaraswamy, on trafficking in women, women’s migration and violence...
Noborder Network, 2002 18.Aug.02 - Women-, children-, and human trafficking - no one can deny that scrupulous businessmen force women, who are willing to migrate, into prostitution with false promises. Women’s organisations and anti-racist initiatives...
Nimalka Fernando This paper focuses on migrant workers from , who are predominantly women. The Sri Lankan Bureau for Foreign Employment (SLBFE) regulates foreign employment, including the licensing and monitoring of recruiting agencies. The Government...
In many cultures, irrespective of continent, modernization meant that formal institutions of slavery metamorphosed into quasi-legal slaveries, informal slaveries, caste servitude, neo-feudal seigneurial arrangements, mass public penal servitude (labor...
Ginette Karirekinyana (1) starts off with some introductory remarks on the philosophy of humanism and goes over to paint a grim but realistic picture of women's labour migration using Lebanon as an example. Of interest I find her contributions to describing...
"Maid in ": protecting the rights of migrant domestic workers Driven by extreme poverty in their home countries, thousands of female migrant workers go each year to the Arab States in order to earn enough money to support their families. What they find...
The Chairman of the Foreign Employment Bureau was quoted saying that the Government hopes to evacuate 2600 Sri Lankan workers registered with the Sri Lanka embassy in Beirut. Only one casualty has been reported up to now out of the 80,000 workers involved.three...
A domestic worker, domestic, or servant is one who works within the employer's household. Servants are distinguishable from serfs or slaves in that they are compensated, that is, they must receive payment (and, following labour reforms in the 20th Century,...
Amnesty International, 2005 Stripped of their rights and denied adequate legal recourse, women domestic workers in many Gulf states are often discriminated against, exploited, even abandoned in their host countries “I confessed before the police because...
Entretien avec une assistante sociale du conseil libanais contre les violences faites aux femmes Au Liban, la question des violences faites aux femmes n’est pas au cœur des préoccupations politiques ou sociales. Les événements qu’a traversé le pays depuis...
Antislavery International, 2005 Lebanon is a destination country for trafficked women for domestic work from Asian and African countries. Various reports also mention women trafficked for sexual purposes, mainly from Eastern Europe . The country is to...
Global Women: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy Edited by Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild New York : Holt, 2002 336 pp. $15 IN THEIR EDITED COLLECTION, Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy,...
