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Policy

2024

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2023

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Shelley Marshall, Ingrid Landau, Hila Shamir, Tamar Barkay, Judy Fudge, Auret van Heerden and Renée Burns, Policy Brief: Mandatory Human Rights Due Diligence: Risks and Opportunities for Workers and Unions, RMIT University Business and Human Rights Centre; TraffLab ERC; and Labour, Equality and Human Rights (LEAH)research group, Monash Business School (2023). [POLICY BRIEF - English] [SUMMARY of June 5, 2023 Event - English]

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Shelley Marshall, Ingrid Landau, Hila Shamir, Tamar Barkay, Judy Fudge and Auret van Heerden, Mandatory Human Rights Due Diligence: Risks and Opportunities for Workers and Unions, RMIT University Business and Human Rights Centre; TraffLab ERC; and Labour, Equality and Human Rights (LEAH)research group, Monash Business School (2023). [FULL REPORT - English

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Shelley Marshall, Hila Shamir, Anjali Sharma and Chinmayi Naik, Key Findings of the "Transferability of Mathadi Board’s" Project (2023). [English] [Marathi] [Hindi]

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2022

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Ayushman Bhagat, The Impact of Migration Bans on Female Nepalese Citizens, Policy Briefing (2022). [English]

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Hila Shamir and Maayan Niezna, Comments on Israel's National Anti-Trafficking Plan, May 1, 2022 [Hebrew] (submitted to the National Anti-Trafficking Coordinator).

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Hila Shamir and Maayan Niezna (eds.), An Alternative Anti-Trafficking Action Plan: A Proposed Model Based on a Labor Approach to Trafficking, TraffLab Research Group Policy Paper, Tel Aviv University (2022). [English]

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Yahel Kurlander and Shahar Shoham, "A Country that 'Eats' its Workers", March 15, 2022 (with Physicians for Human Rights, Kav LaOved,and Dr. Matan Kaminer).

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Hanny Ben-Israel and Yahel Kurlander, "Student" Programs in the Israeli Agricultural SectorMarch 2022 [Hebrew] (Policy Paper submitted to the Knesset Special Committee on Foreign Workers).

2021

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Hila Shamir, Yahel Kurlander, Hanny Ben-Israel, Reforms in the Care Sector, December 16, 2021 [Hebrew] (Policy Paper submitted on behalf of the TraffLab research group to the Population and Immigration Authority team examining changes to methods of employment of foreign workers in the care sector).

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Shahar Shoham and Yahel Kurlander, Sexual Violence Against Migrant Workers in the Agriculture Sector in Israel,  October 2021 [Hebrew], (Policy Paper submitted to the Knesset Special Committee on Foreign Workers). Presentations to the Foreign Workers Committee: 19.10.21              16.11.21           and 21.2.22

2020

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Hila Shamir and Maayan Niezna (eds.), An Alternative Anti-Trafficking Action Plan: A Proposed Model Based on a Labor Approach to Trafficking, TraffLab Research Group Policy Paper, Tel Aviv University (2020). [Hebrew

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Maayan Niezna, Enforcement and Identification of Victims of Labor Trafficking in Israel - Difficulties and Principles for Improvement, submitted July 2020. (Policy Paper submitted to the governmental team focusing on Enforcement and Identification as a part of the Implementation Plan for the National Program in Combating Human Trafficking). [Hebrew]

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Guy Shilo, Einat Peled, Hila Shamir, Paying for Sex, Receiving Payment for Sex and Attitudes Towards Prostitution/Sex Work Policy and The Law Prohibiting the Purchase of Sexual Services: Data from a Survey of the Israeli Jewish Population, Tel Aviv University (2020). [Hebrew]

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Letter to the Israeli National Security Council Concerning Migrant Workers, Palestinian Workers and Informal Workers in the Age of COVID-19, May 17, 2020. (TraffLab, Kav LaOved, Hotline for  Refugees and Migrants, and Physicians for Human Rights) [Hebrew]

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Letter to the Israeli National Security Council Concerning Migrant Domestic Workers in the age of COVID-19, May 17, 2020. (Workers’ Rights Legal Clinic (TraffLab) and the Clinics for the Rights of the Elderly) [Hebrew]

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Letter to the Israeli National Security Council Concerning Migrant Agriculture Workers in the age of COVID-19, May 17, 2020. (TraffLab, Kav LaOved, and Physicians for Human Rights) [Hebrew]

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