The unequal impact of Covid‐19 on the lives and rights of the children of modern slavery survivors, children in exploitation and children at risk of entering exploitation

Jimenez, Erika; Brotherton, Vicky; Gardner, A.M.N.; Wright, Nicola; Browne, Hannah; Esiovwa, Nancy; Dang, Minh; Wyman, Emily; Bravo-Balsa, Liana; Lucas, Benjamín; Gul, Mohsen; Such, Elizabeth; Trodd, Zoe

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“…There thus remains a paucity of rigorous, up-to-date data on the full nature and extent of the problem of modern slavery and human trafficking in the UK. There is, however, a growing body of evidence on the lived experience of victims and survivors [29][30][31][32], that is, for example, focused on the health implications of exploitation [33,34] 9 . However, there remains a sense that the voices of survivors remain largely marginalised and excluded from policy discourse [32].…”

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Taking Back Control: Human Rights and Human Trafficking in the United Kingdom

Landman,

Brewster,

Thornton

2024

Societies

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Modern slavery and human trafficking are well recognized as significant problems in need of legislation, policies, and actions from a wide range of stakeholders in the United Kingdom. The passage of the UK Modern Slavery Act 2015 is a hallmark of these concerns and has made the UK a world leader in the fight against modern slavery and human trafficking, a legislative development that is in line with the country’s broader formal commitment to the international and European human rights regime. In the post-Brexit period, however, there has been an increasing de jure conflation of modern slavery and human trafficking with efforts to curb immigration, leading to a significant questioning of the UK’s commitment to human rights. This article locates the consideration of human rights and human trafficking within these broader political trends in order to understand the prospects for meaningful measures to combat modern slavery and human trafficking in the future.

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Taking Back Control: Human Rights and Human Trafficking in the United Kingdom

Landman,

Brewster,

Thornton

2024

Societies

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“…To record those children's voices is challenging but not impossible. For instance, in Jiménez et al's (2023) work, the children's voices were enabled by adult survivors of modern slavery and stakeholders of anti‐slavery organisations. The authors contended that the pandemic should be used as an opportunity to promote policy change to ensure children's rights, and in particular their right to participate in the development of anti‐slavery policies.…”

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Children and young people's perspectives on and experiences of COVID‐19 in global contexts

Hoskins

Gao

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Children & Society

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This special issue was proposed by Children & Society editors specifically for the journal's strategic aims to enhance its internationalisation; and to embrace children's perspectives and experiences in producing knowledge about childhoods in challenging times and underrepresented contexts (Berriman et al., 2021). The COVID-19 pandemic is such an ongoing challenge and has profoundly affected the daily lives of children around the globe (Cowie & Myers, 2021). Lockdowns, social distancing, and quarantine increase children's anxiety and stress and reduce access to vital family members, friends, and care services. The COVID-19 pandemic re-sets the boundaries and spaces of formal education, by bringing it directly into homes across the globe and shifting the family involvement in children's education and care. In addition to social, developmental and mental health issues caused to children due to lockdowns and constraints with learning (Cowie & Myers, 2021), there is a high proportion of children worldwide who live in difficult circumstances and experience issues such as poverty, lack of food, water, sanitation or hygiene, domestic violence and abuse, special needs, conflicts and those who are refugees and migrants (UNICEF, 2020). They may have already been in those disadvantaged situations, and the COVID-19 pandemic unfortunately has worsened the circumstances for them.During the time of the pandemic, home has become a more visible quasi-public space through digital technologies for some children, but has also further marginalised children living in digitally impoverished contexts (Iyer et al., 2020). Digital contact in the hybridisation of public and private spaces raises concerns over child protection and safety for many children (Iyer et al., 2020). Nevertheless, little is known about how space (physical and digital) has been experienced by children who were confined to their homes. Even less visible in scholarship concerning children and young people's experiences of and perspectives on COVID-19 are those from children living in contexts other than mainstream notions of 'home' and from socially disadvantaged backgrounds.Set against this context, this special issue examines the challenges that have faced children and their families across a range of different cultural and geographical contexts. These include countries from six continents of the world, namely: Europe

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“…Globally, there are a cautious opening of public places for fun, and the economy has not revived at a previous pace. There is a great impact of COVID-19 on survivors, missing families, businesses and countries with poor economic conditions [ 30 , 31 ]. There is a need of study with convincing source of data which could be global coverage, reliable, and evidence for policy implications.…”

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COVID-19 trends, public restrictions policies and vaccination status by economic ranking of countries: a longitudinal study from 110 countries

Park

Ranabhat

2022

Arch Public Health

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Background The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has transitioned to a third phase and many variants have been originated. There has been millions of lives loss as well as billions in economic loss. The morbidity and mortality for COVID-19 varies by country. There were different preventive approaches and public restrictions policies have been applied to control the COVID-19 impacts and usually measured by Stringency Index. This study aimed to explore the COVID-19 trend, public restriction policies and vaccination status with economic ranking of countries. Methods We received open access data from Our World in Data. Data from 210 countries were available. Countries (n = 110) data related to testing, which is a key variable in the present study, were included for the analysis and remaining 100 countries were excluded due to incomplete data. The analysis period was set between January 22, 2020 (when COVID-19 was first officially reported) and December 28, 2021. All analyses were stratified by year and the World Bank income group. To analyze the associations among the major variables, we used a longitudinal fixed-effects model. Results Out of the 110 countries included in our analysis, there were 9 (8.18%), 25 (22.72%), 31 (28.18%), and 45 (40.90%) countries from low income countries (LIC), low and middle income countries (LMIC), upper middle income countries (UMIC) and high income countries (HIC) respectively. New case per million was similar in LMIC, UMIC and HIC but lower in LIC. The number of new COVID-19 test were reduced in HIC and LMIC but similar in UMIC and LIC. Stringency Index was negligible in LIC and similar in LMIC, UMIC and HIC. New positivity rate increased in LMIC and UMIC. The daily incidence rate was positively correlated with the daily mortality rate in both 2020 and 2021. In 2020, Stringency Index was positive in LIC and HIC but a negative association in LMIC and in 2021 there was a positive association between UMIC and HIC. Vaccination coverage did not appear to change with mortality in 2021. Conclusion New COVID-19 cases, tests, vaccinations, positivity rates, and Stringency indices were low in LIC and highest in UMIC. Our findings suggest that the available resources of COVID-19 pandemic would be allocated by need of countries; LIC and UMIC.

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The unequal impact of Covid‐19 on the lives and rights of the children of modern slavery survivors, children in exploitation and children at risk of entering exploitation

Cited by 7 publications

References 36 publications

Taking Back Control: Human Rights and Human Trafficking in the United Kingdom

Taking Back Control: Human Rights and Human Trafficking in the United Kingdom

Children and young people's perspectives on and experiences of COVID‐19 in global contexts

COVID-19 trends, public restrictions policies and vaccination status by economic ranking of countries: a longitudinal study from 110 countries

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