The due diligence standard : what does it entail for women's rights? / Yakin Ertürk -- The history and development of the due diligence standard in international law and its role in the protection of women against violence / Joanna Bourke-Martignoni -- Preventing violence against women : the...

This paper maps the interplay between local and transnational social movements addressing human trafficking and exploitation in the commercial sex industry. I explore the sexual politics of legal mobilization and the operation of new governance mechanisms created by collaborative taskforces...

We develop an index measuring the three main dimensions of governments' anti-trafficking policies – prosecution, protection and prevention – for up to 180 countries over the 2000-2010 period. Overall, developed countries perform better than the rest of the world; compliance with prosecution...