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Human trafficking
In 2011, the Program on Human Rights (PHR) launched its research initiative on human trafficking to address the main challenges and generate new knowledge on this issue of international concern. Working in collaboration with Stanford faculty and students, this project builds on research underway across the univ ...
November 10th, 2012
Program on Human Rights expands human trafficking research to Asia
PHR NewsThe Program on Human Rights at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) is beginning to expand its research to examine the response of regional and sub regional court systems to human trafficking in Asia. Read more »
October 24th, 2012
Panel debates California human trafficking proposition
CDDRL, PHR NewsOn October 23, CDDRL's Program on Human Rights sponsored a panel discussion on Proposition 35. On the 2012 California ballot, proposition 35 - Californians Against Sexual Exploitation (CASE Act) - calls for increased awareness of human trafficking and for provision to deter perpetrators of this crime. Read more »
September 17th, 2012
The Proposition Games: Will Prop 35 help curb human trafficking?
CDDRL, PHR Op-ed: The Stanford Daily on September 17, 2012In a piece for the Stanford Daily, Nadejda Marques, manager of the Program on Human Rights at the CDDRL, writes about Proposition 35 (the CASE Act), slated for the November 2012 California Ballot. Californians Against Sexual Exploitation (CASE) hopes to raise awareness of human trafficking and deter traffickers with higher penalties and fines. Critics of Proposition 35 argue that stiffer sentencing is not the core of this complex problem. They defend that efforts should be directed to training police and prosecutors, and funding victim-services providers to protect and enable court proceedings. Read more »
August 20th, 2012
Canada's new immigration measure and human trafficking
CDDRL, PHR Op-ed: Stanford Daily on August 16, 2012In a piece for the Stanford Daily, Nadejda Marques, manager of the Program on Human Rights at the CDDRL, writes about Canada's new immigration measure and its potential impact on human trafficking. Read more »
June 13th, 2012
Stanford undergrad awarded human rights fellowship, heads to Hong Kong
PHR NewsThis summer Adrian Bonifacio, one of the recipients of The Program on Human Rights and the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society's 2012 Human Rights Fellowship, will work with the Asian Pacific Mission for Migrants, a non-governmental organization that promotes and defends the rights of migrant workers in Hong Kong. Read more »
April 24th, 2012
Human trafficking series elevates issue of global importance
CDDRL, PHR in the newsThe Program on Human Rights convened experts advancing research, policy, and activism in the field of human trafficking at the 2012 Sanela Diana Jenkins Human Rights Speakers Series, "Human Trafficking is Global Slavery." Members of the Adobe Youth Voice Peapod Academy of the Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula joined Stanford students at the weekly seminar and deployed a team of talented young filmmakers to document the series. Read more »
March 14th, 2012
Experts debate specific improvements to anti-trafficking measures
CDDRL, PHR NewsThe Program on Human Rights concluded its ninth and final installment of the Sanela Diana Jenkins International Speakers Series with presentations by Dr. Mohammed Mattar, executive director of the Protection Project and professor at Johns Hopkins University and Professor Alison Brysk, chair of Global Governance, Global and International Studies at UC Santa Barbara. Read more »