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Human rights indicators and implementation (2022)
Book Chapter
Landman, T., & Schwarz, K. (2022). Human rights indicators and implementation. In R. Murray, & D. Long (Eds.), Research Handbook on Implementation of Human Rights in Practice (309-326). United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800372283.00026

The last several decades have seen many advances in the development and application of human rights indicators, which has progressed alongside the continued development of international, regional, and national human rights legal frameworks. This chap... Read More about Human rights indicators and implementation.

Reparations for Slavery in International Law: Transatlantic Enslavement, the Maangamizi, and the Making of International Law (2022)
Book
Schwarz, K. (2022). Reparations for Slavery in International Law: Transatlantic Enslavement, the Maangamizi, and the Making of International Law. New York: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197636398.001.0001

Reparations for Slavery in International Law examines the case for contemporary redress for the harms and legacies of transatlantic enslavement from a legal perspective. It critically evaluates the history of transatlantic enslavement and the evoluti... Read More about Reparations for Slavery in International Law: Transatlantic Enslavement, the Maangamizi, and the Making of International Law.

Increased vulnerability to human trafficking of migrants during the COVID-19 pandemic in the IGAD–North Africa region (2022)
Book Chapter
Lumley-Sapanski, A., & Schwarz, K. (in press). Increased vulnerability to human trafficking of migrants during the COVID-19 pandemic in the IGAD–North Africa region. In The Impacts of COVID-19 on Migration and Migrants from a Gender Perspective (145-157). Geneva: International Organization for Migration

This paper employs a gender-responsive lens to explore the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the risk of human trafficking and migrants’ experiences of human trafficking in the IGAD–North Africa region. Findings are based on an extensi... Read More about Increased vulnerability to human trafficking of migrants during the COVID-19 pandemic in the IGAD–North Africa region.

Are women not enslaved in Brazil? A data-driven analysis of gender dynamics in Brazilian antislavery efforts (2022)
Journal Article
Rangel, F. C., & Schwarz, K. (2023). Are women not enslaved in Brazil? A data-driven analysis of gender dynamics in Brazilian antislavery efforts. International Journal of Human Rights, 27(1), 117-143. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2022.2061953

Globally, women and girls make up the majority of recorded and estimated victims of modern slavery and human trafficking. In Brazil, however, females represent only 5% of the more than 35,000 people rescued from forced and slave labour from 2003 to 2... Read More about Are women not enslaved in Brazil? A data-driven analysis of gender dynamics in Brazilian antislavery efforts.