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A constant stream of impoverished women and girls have been, and are being, enslaved and abused in the Asia Pacific region. Slavery is not a historical issue – it’s happening today. History is repeating itself.Through Sylvia Yu Friedman’s work in journalism, counter-trafficking and...

»Verzweifelt, weil ich sehe, wie wir aus der Geschichte nicht substanziell lernen. Verzweifelt, weil die Demokratie, die mir als Mensch das Leben garantiert, zerfällt.« Demokratie ist nie statisch, sondern dynamisch. Sie lebt durch die Menschen, die ununterbrochen an ihr arbeiten. Wer wüsste...

The phrase "human trafficking" often conjures nightmarish images of sexual exploitation, but Rhacel Salazar Parreñas reveals that the vast majority of trafficking victims are domestic workers who suffer abuse not at the hands of crime lords, but rather "ordinary" family employers. Drawing on twenty years of groundbreaking research across three continents, Parreñas exposes the grim realities faced by migrant workers ensnared in forced labor due to poverty and debt bondage.