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Rights Lab, University of Nottingham, Response to the UK International Development White Paper: Call for Evidence (Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office) (2023)
Report
Jackson, B., Bosatta, L., & Schwarz, K. (2023). Rights Lab, University of Nottingham, Response to the UK International Development White Paper: Call for Evidence (Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office). Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (UK)

Submission to the UK Government call for evidence (led by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) International Development White Paper, September 2023. Response to questions submitted by the Rights Lab, University of Nottingham. Responses... Read More about Rights Lab, University of Nottingham, Response to the UK International Development White Paper: Call for Evidence (Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office).

Exacerbating Pre-Existing Vulnerabilities: an Analysis of the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Human Trafficking in Sudan (2023)
Journal Article
Lumley-Sapanski, A., Schwarz, K., Cano, A. V., Babiker, M. A., Crowther, M., Death, E., …Mir, M. P. (2023). Exacerbating Pre-Existing Vulnerabilities: an Analysis of the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Human Trafficking in Sudan. Human Rights Review, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12142-023-00683-7

COVID-19 has caused far-reaching humanitarian challenges. Amongst the emerging impacts of the pandemic is on thedynamics of human trafficking. This paper presents findings from a multi-methods study interrogating the impacts of COVID-19 on human traf... Read More about Exacerbating Pre-Existing Vulnerabilities: an Analysis of the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Human Trafficking in Sudan.

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.

The Khartoum Process and human trafficking (2021)
Journal Article
Lumley-Sapanski, A., Schwarz, K., & Valverde-Cano, A. (2021). The Khartoum Process and human trafficking. Forced Migration Review (English Edition),

The Khartoum Process’s emphasis on stopping northward migration comes at great cost to vulnerable refugees and asylum seekers.

Developing Freedom: The Sustainable Development Case for Ending Modern Slavery, Forced Labour, Human Trafficking (2021)
Book
Cockayne, J. (2021). Developing Freedom: The Sustainable Development Case for Ending Modern Slavery, Forced Labour, Human Trafficking. New York: United Nations University

This project aimed to establish and promote a clear case for the global development community to prioritize anti-slavery and anti-trafficking in development programming and policies. Sustainable Development Goal Target 8.7 commits states to fight mod... Read More about Developing Freedom: The Sustainable Development Case for Ending Modern Slavery, Forced Labour, Human Trafficking.

After Enslavement Ends: Ensuring Redress for Victims (2020)
Book Chapter
Schwarz, K. (2020). After Enslavement Ends: Ensuring Redress for Victims. In K. Bales, & Z. Trodd (Eds.), The Antislavery Usable Past: History’s Lessons for How We End Slavery Today (133-156). Rights Lab, University of Nottingham

Collapsing the Boundaries between De Jure and De Facto Slavery: The Foundations of Slavery beyond the Transatlantic Frame (2020)
Journal Article
Schwarz, K., & Nicholson, A. (2020). Collapsing the Boundaries between De Jure and De Facto Slavery: The Foundations of Slavery beyond the Transatlantic Frame. Human Rights Review, 21, 391-414. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12142-020-00604-y

The identification of contemporary forms of slavery is often problematically demarcated by reference to transatlantic enslavement as the definitive archetype. Such an approach overlooks other historic slaveries and neglects the totality of the maanga... Read More about Collapsing the Boundaries between De Jure and De Facto Slavery: The Foundations of Slavery beyond the Transatlantic Frame.

The Modern Slavery (Victim Support) Bill: a cost-benefit analysis (2020)
Other
Nicholson, A., Schwarz, K., Landman, T., & Griffith, A. (2020). The Modern Slavery (Victim Support) Bill: a cost-benefit analysis. Nottingham

This report provides an analysis of the costs and benefits of extending support to adult conclusive victims of human trafficking in England and Wales for 12 months after exiting the National Referral Mechanism (NRM), the UK’s identification and suppo... Read More about The Modern Slavery (Victim Support) Bill: a cost-benefit analysis.

Reasserting Agency: Procedural Justice, Victim-Centricity, and the Right to Remedy for Survivors of Slavery and Related Exploitation (2018)
Journal Article
Schwarz, K., & Geng, J. (2018). Reasserting Agency: Procedural Justice, Victim-Centricity, and the Right to Remedy for Survivors of Slavery and Related Exploitation. Journal of Modern Slavery, 4(2), 93-120

One of the biggest failings of contemporary regimes governing human exploitation is their treatment of ‘victims’. This paper roots narratives of victimhood and agency in the legal frameworks through analysis of the right to effective remedy in human... Read More about Reasserting Agency: Procedural Justice, Victim-Centricity, and the Right to Remedy for Survivors of Slavery and Related Exploitation.

Reparations for the transatlantic slave trade and historical enslavement: Linking past atrocities with contemporary victim populations (2018)
Journal Article
Moffett, L., & Schwarz, K. (2018). Reparations for the transatlantic slave trade and historical enslavement: Linking past atrocities with contemporary victim populations. Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, 36(4), 247-269. https://doi.org/10.1177/0924051918801612

The debate around reparations for the transatlantic slave trade has been discussed for centuries with no end in sight. This article does not intend to cover the historical or political aspects of this debate, but instead to shed more light on the leg... Read More about Reparations for the transatlantic slave trade and historical enslavement: Linking past atrocities with contemporary victim populations.