Re-posted from StopTraffickNow website

We are seeking panelists from diverse backgrounds, including activists, legislators, academics, NGO representatives, religious groups, and victim advocates. We are also seeking booth and art display proposals that focus on issues relating to human trafficking from individuals and organizations.

We are particularly interested in panel, paper, and booth proposals on the following issues as they relate to trafficking in persons: labor, gender, sex, children, US foreign policy, militarization, economics, politics/policy, the EU, activism, religious perspectives, prevention/protection/prosecution/best practices. Read the rest of this entry »

The World Bank Independent Evaluation Group has recently published a study on How to Build M&E Systems to Support Better Government.  The author of the study is Keith Mackay, and the book is divided six chapters covering a wide variety of topics:

• monitoring and evaluation for governments (M & E concepts, methods, strategies, and plans);
• monitoring and evaluation country experiences and good practices (Chile, Colombia, Australia, and the special case of Africa);
• lessons learned from experience on building M&E systems, as well as ways to persuade governments to set up M&E Systems;
• ways to strengthen a government’s M&E system and ways to set up action plans;
  commonly asked questions and lessons on how to ensure evaluations are influential. Read the rest of this entry »

In a world of increased travel restrictions, we tend to think that the need for free movement is something new. This is why the International Regulations on the Admission and Expulsion of Aliens proposed in 1892 by the Institute of International Law came as a big surprise to me. Here is why:

ARTICLE 6. Free entrance of aliens to the territory of a civilized state, may not be generally and permanently forbidden except in the public interest and for very serious reasons, for example, because of a dangerous organization or gathering of aliens who come in great numbers.

ARTICLE 7. The protection of national labor is not, in itself, a sufficient reason for non admissions.

How far along did policy and regulations progress since then?

citation from Juss, S.S. (2006), International Migration and Global Justice, Ashgate Publishing Limited: Hampshire, p.3