Practitioner reflectionWhat If We Didn’t Have to Go Back to Move Forward?27 October 2026What If We Didn’t Have to Go Back to Move Forward?
What if healing did not always require us to go back?
Healing and recoveryEmotional Resolution
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Blogs, analysis and lived experience.
The complete GJK blog collection, followed by women’s first-person experiences.
Practitioner reflectionWhat If We Didn’t Have to Go Back to Move Forward?27 October 2026
Legal & policy analysisA Regional Labour Agreement Model for East Africa25 August 2026The Legal Case for a Regional Bilateral Labour Agreement Model in East Africa
A legal and policy case for an East African regional framework that would strengthen collective bargaining with Gulf destination states and establish common minimum protections for migrant workers.
Bilateral labour agreementsEast African Community
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Blog & analysisTrapped Behind the Scam9 August 2026Trapped Behind the Scam: Protecting Kenyan Youth from Trafficking into Southeast Asia
An examination of deceptive recruitment into Southeast Asian scam compounds, trafficking for forced criminality, safe migration, survivor protection and the remedies available under Kenyan and international law.
Trafficking for forced criminalitySafe migration
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Blog & analysisWomen Are Leading Migration18 March 2026A Gender Transformative Approach to the Feminization of Migration
An analysis of women’s growing leadership in labour migration and why policy must move beyond protection to transform the gendered systems shaping work, mobility and access to justice.
Women and migrationGender transformation
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Legal & policy analysisKenyan Women and Stateless Children in Saudi Arabia11 December 2025Urgent Action Required to Repatriate Hundreds of Kenyan Women Trapped in Saudi Arabia with Their Kenyan Stateless Children
A call for coordinated action to secure recognition, protection and safe repatriation for Kenyan women migrant workers and their undocumented children in Saudi Arabia.
Women migrant workersChildren’s rights
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Blog & analysisFrom Myanmar to Malaysia3 September 2025From Myanmar to Malaysia: Has the Trap for Kenyan Job Seekers Simply Moved?
An examination of deceptive overseas recruitment, debt, irregular status and isolation facing Kenyan job seekers recruited into work that differs from what they were promised.
Deceptive recruitmentHuman trafficking
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Legal analysisThe Court We Cannot Access16 April 2025The Court We Cannot Access: Why Most Africans Can’t Use the African Court and Why That Matters
An explanation of the barriers preventing many individuals and civil society organisations from bringing cases directly before the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights.
African CourtAccess to justice
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Blog & analysisShe Builds Nations18 February 2025She Cooks, She Cleans, She Builds Nations—Now She’s Protected
A reflection on the value of women’s paid and unpaid care work and the importance of recognising domestic work as work entitled to rights, dignity and legal protection.
Domestic workersWomen’s rights
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Practice reflectionRising Together18 December 2024Rising Together: Lessons from the AWID Forum on Feminist Action
Reflections from the AWID Forum on feminist organising, solidarity and the collective action required to confront gender-based violence and structural inequality.
Feminist actionMovement building
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Blog & analysisFrom Silence to Solidarity29 November 2024From Silence to Solidarity: Action in the Face of Injustice
A call for solidarity and sustained action against gender-based violence, inequality and the conditions that constrain women’s freedom and safety.
Gender-based violenceSolidarity
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Blog & analysisTransnational Organised Crime and Accountability15 November 2024International Day for the Prevention of and Fight against All Forms of Transnational Organized Crime
An analysis of exploitation affecting migrant domestic workers in Gulf states and the accountability gaps that allow cross-border abuse and trafficking to persist.
Organised crimeMigrant domestic workers
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Blog & analysisTake Care of Those Who Care29 October 2024International Day of Care and Support: Take Care of Those Who Care
A reflection on the social and economic value of paid and unpaid care work and the rights, recognition and protection owed to the workers who sustain families and communities.
Care workWomen workers
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Forum reflectionAfrica Business and Human Rights Forum 202415 October 2024Global Justice Group at the Africa Business and Human Rights Forum 2024: A Commitment to Combat Modern Slavery
A reflection on GJK’s engagement at the Africa Business and Human Rights Forum and the responsibilities of businesses and states in addressing modern slavery.
Business and human rightsModern slavery
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Blog & analysisRescue Challenges in Lebanon7 October 2024Unseen Challenges in the Rescue of Kenyan Migrant Workers in Lebanon
An examination of the practical barriers Kenyan migrant workers face when attempting to register for evacuation and reach safety during crisis in Lebanon.
Crisis responseMigrant workers
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Practice reflectionRepatriating Loved Ones from the Gulf9 September 2024The Grieving Odyssey of Repatriating Deceased Loved Ones from the Gulf
A reflection on the administrative, financial and evidentiary barriers Kenyan families face when seeking information and repatriating the remains of relatives from Gulf countries.
RepatriationBereaved families
Read this item Kazi Majuu: Risk or Ease for Kenyans Desperate to Earn?
Analysis of Kenya’s overseas-employment platform and the safeguards, accountability arrangements and worker participation needed to prevent exploitation.
Labour migrationWorker safeguards
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Women’s experiences across the migration cycle.
These accounts are presented as evidence of systemic justice gaps—not as narratives of suffering alone. Each page includes a content note, contextual analysis and a route to the original publication.
Lived-experience perspectiveFeith’s Journey4 September 2024A Journey of Suffering: Feith’s Ordeal in Saudi Arabia
Feith’s account traces how recruitment for domestic work became isolation, document confiscation, violence and a difficult route to safety and return.
Women migrant workersRecruitment
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Lived-experience perspectiveShattered Dreams9 September 2024Shattered Dreams
Eunice’s account examines the family, financial and psychological consequences of exploitative labour migration and a prolonged repatriation process.
Women migrant workersRepatriation
Read this item A Heart-Wrenching Journey: Grace’s Resilience Amidst Adversity and Trauma
Grace’s account explores deception in recruitment, abuse in domestic work, barriers to assistance and the lasting physical effects of trauma after return.
Women migrant workersHealth and trauma
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Lived-experience perspectiveBrenda Shares Her Story4 September 2024Silent Suffering: Brenda Shares Her Story
Brenda’s account describes deceptive recruitment, excessive work, denied medical care, debt-based coercion and the challenges of seeking help and rebuilding after return.
Women migrant workersForced labour
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Lived-experience perspectiveEverlyne’s Story9 September 2024Everlyne’s Story: Trafficked to Saudi Arabia as a Domestic Servant
Everlyne’s account follows recruitment, unpaid wages, cross-border transfer, coercion and her efforts to escape abuse and pursue justice before returning to Kenya.
Human traffickingWomen migrant workers
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First-person material should be published only with appropriate consent and safeguarding review. GJK avoids identifying confidential cases, sensationalising harm or reducing women to their experiences of exploitation.
Where older archive material is reproduced or linked, the new page adds a clear content note and explains the justice and policy questions raised.
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