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Enslavement and Abolition, Mobility and Work, Social Movements, Gender and Violence, Historical Repair, the Politics and History of Africa. Wits Politics Prof

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To commemorate ten years of @beyondslavery we have put together all our work since October 2014. This amounts to over 1000 articles, 800 authors, 1.5 million words, 4,000 pages, and four brick sized volumes. You can download the entire thing as a pdf
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RT @JCWI_UK: A year ago the UK was rocked by widespread racist riots, with mobs attacking mosques and trying to burn down migrant accomodat….
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bigissue.com
Far right riots are targeting immigration lawyers after years of divisive anti-migrant narratives, writes JCWI's Ravishaan Rahel Muthiah.
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RT @Tilley101: Every university manager who took action against student protestors deputised themselves to the genocidal project. Every one….
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Some students also had their degrees revoked for participating in antiwar protests, including the 2024 Gaza encampments.
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RT @BeyondSlavery: Should we abolish the UK's system for identifying modern slavery victims?
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opendemocracy.net
The UK’s modern slavery identification system slows down asylum claims. It can even undermine them
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RT @RiotFrank: Up in London.
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RT @openDemocracy: Crossing borders in search of home: a conversation with Hüseyin Ovayolu | read more ⤵️.
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opendemocracy.net
A new photography exhibition explores migration, displacement and the search for belonging
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RT @WitsPolitics: Public Lecture Series: Everything Everywhere All at Once, Semester Two, 2025 . For further information please contact ev….
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RT @JCWI_UK: On Sunday, a far-right mob surrounded a hostel in Epping Forest where migrants are housed, seriously injuring & hospitalizing….
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metro.co.uk
A video of the bloodied workers went viral online.
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Gaza now has the grim distinction of having the highest number of amputee children per capita in the world. An entire generation of children subjected to ongoing military attacks, loss of parents and long-term malnutrition will suffer severe repercussions.
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nytimes.com
A professor of Holocaust and genocide studies comes to a painful conclusion about Israel’s actions in Gaza.
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Pretty much everyone knows that the iconography of “modern slavery”victimhood is both misleading and damaging, yet despite this recognition governments and campaigners still keep reproducing these very same tropes. Here is a really useful explanation for why this keeps happening.
@BeyondSlavery
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“Put a man on the front of our magazine and our donations will drop.”. On who gets to be a victim, and why anti-trafficking orgs haven't yet abandoned rescue narratives ✍️ @DrHJLewis .
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“Threat to humanity” . It is still startling just how far and fast the US mask has slipped. “Because of the fact that Rosie O’Donnell is not in the best interests of our Great Country, I am giving serious consideration to taking away her Citizenship.”
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President Trump said the actress, a longtime nemesis, “is not in the best interests of our Great Country.” Ms. O’Donnell called him a “criminal con man” who puts his interests ahead of the nation’s.
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RT @RamAbdu: The crime of starvation is unfolding before the eyes of the world. People choose to die by bullets outside the Israeli-America….
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RT @BeyondSlavery: Child sexual abuse is being weaponised by the far-right. The left needs to tackle the lies head on. Read the interview w….
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RT @MightyCaster: ✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿
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RT @BeyondSlavery: "In the two decades since the ICC was established, the court has not once prosecuted someone for trafficking.". We can't….
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opendemocracy.net
Human traffickers are rarely held accountable during or after conflict. This is dangerous for everyone
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RT @LouiseRawAuthor: FIGHT FASCIST LIES!. Can now share what I’ve been working on with the brave team at @openDemocracy. ‘Grooming gang’ l….
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opendemocracy.net
The far right cynically uses child sexual exploitation to push an anti-migrant and islamophobia agenda
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“we need to show that the far-right are predators, not protectors. We need to evidence and talk about all the vile things they have said and done. Expose them, show the world what they’re really about.”.
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openDemocracy
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Are grooming gangs the far right’s golden goose? | read more ⤵️.
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“The findings represent a striking contradiction. A government led by freedom fighters who helped liberate Black South Africans from apartheid is now overseeing a police force that tortures them, betraying a promise not to repeat atrocities” .
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nytimes.com
A government led by freedom fighters who helped to liberate the country more than 30 years ago is now overseeing a police force accused of staggering abuses.
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"According to data from the Children’s Institute, there are at least 258,000 children and young adults who have been left in limbo for years while a decision on their birth registration gets tied up in red tape.".
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dailymaverick.co.za
Court case exposes how Home Affairs red tape is obstructing birth registrations in Western Cape, leaving kids without IDs or access to fundamental rights.
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RT @africasacountry: Afrophobia in South Africa is no longer shouted—it is rationalized, rebranded, and wrapped in the language of law and….
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africasacountry.com
Afrophobia in South Africa is no longer shouted—it is rationalized, rebranded, and wrapped in the language of law and patriotism.
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