Global Human Trafficking Unmasked: A Feminist Rights-Based Approach

Author: Pourmokhtari, Navid

Abstract: This article examines the phenomenon of human trafficking in the post-Cold War period with a view to identifying its causes and consequences and critiquing three remedial approaches: criminal, economic, and feminist rights-based. In addition, the chief strategies currently used to combat human trafficking will be critiqued from the perspective of feminist rights-based theory.

Keywords: feminism, feminist rights-based approach, globalization, human rights, human trafficking, post-Cold War