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Roadshow Entertainment Presents THE JAMMED

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Official Release of DVD: 5 March 2008 
 
Click here to read a review of the Award–winning film 

Amazing Grace

The feature film, Amazing Grace, chronicles William Wilberforce's struggle to outlaw the slave trade in England at a time when it was a mainstay of the British economy. The film serves as a powerful reminder of the potential we all have to be catalysts for social change.

Slavery thrives in Australia 200 years after Abolition

20 March, 2007 – Sydney. On Sunday, 25 March, communities across the globe celebrated Freedom Day, the 200th Anniversary of the Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade Act

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Collateral Damage:
The Impact of Anti-Trafficking Measures on Human Rights Around the World

During the week of October 1 2007, The Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW) global research report (titled ‘Collateral Damage: The Impact of Anti-Trafficking Measures on Human Rights Around the World’) was launched in Australia. At events in Canberra, Sydney and Melbourne discussion followed on issues from the Australia chapter of the report, and focussed on key issues highlighted in the report such as:

• The effects of linking victim assistance to cooperation with law enforcement
• Abuse of the Temporary Business (Long Stay) Visa (subclass 457) and its potential for labour trafficking
• Expanding the scope of investigations of trafficking outside of the sex industry to other labour sectors
• Reforming the trafficking victim visa framework
• Improving support for victims

Collateral Damage assesses the human rights repercussions of government policies and anti-trafficking initiatives on trafficked persons, migrant workers and sex workers.  The report considers the experiences of eight countries: Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, India, Nigeria, Thailand, the United Kingdom and the United States.  It is the first report to focus not only on ‘victims of trafficking,’ but on ‘victims of anti-trafficking’ as well.  Overall, it establishes that, across the eight countries reviewed, measures designed to prevent trafficking in human beings have caused substantial ‘collateral damage’ to the very people intended to benefit from their existence: trafficked persons, migrant workers and women.  It also identifies some key steps for advancing a human rights response to human trafficking.

ASP press release on 2007 Trafficking in Persons Report

The Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (US State Department) released its 2006 annual report on Trafficking in Persons.

US State Department releases Trafficking in Persons Report.  Download the Australian narrative or go to the full report http://www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/2007/

Trafficking victim wins compensation claim

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Sydney Morning Herald investigates worker exploitation

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Court Overturns Conviction, The Age reports  

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Resources

Posters

A selection of international posters is available at the Anti-Slavery Project poster gallery.

On-line Audio

(requires Real Player: Free downloads available at www.real.com)

BBC audio series Slavery Today links			BBC series The Body Trade
	Haiti			Labour Trafficking
	Niger			Sex Trafficking
	Pakistan			Trafficking in Babies
	Trafficking
Center for Strategic and International Studies
	Dr. Helga Konrad, OSCE Special Representative in Combating Trafficking in Human Beings
	Human Trafficking and Peacekeeping Operations: Research Findings and Legislative Responses

Books

Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy by Dr. Kevin Bales	Gender, Trafficking and Slavery by Oxfam and Rachel Masika	Human Traffic, Human Rights: Redefining Victim Protection by Elaine Pearson	Revisiting the Human Trafficking Paradigm, the Bangladesh Experience, United Nations Publication
The Traffic in Women by Siriporn Skrobanek	Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered: New Perspectives on Migration, Sex Work and Human Rights by Kamala Kempadoo, Jyoti Sanghera and Bandana Pattanaik	Trafficking in Human Beings, Especially Women and Children in Africa, United Nations Publication.	Trapped, Modern-Day Slavery in the Brazilian Amazon by Binka Le Breton

Videos/DVDs

Dreams Die Hard	Dying to Leave – Hilton Cordell Productions	For Sale: The trafficking of Albania’s children – UNICEF	Lilya 4 Ever feature film available from DVD retailers	Link Between Migration and Trafficking – International Labour Organisation
Sex Slaves, Frontline	Slavery: A Global Investigation – True Vision TV	Trading Women – Ophidian Films	Trafficked