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to Global Citizenship (2003). He is president of the International Development
Ethics Association.
Emma Dowling holds a first degree in International Studies and Politics
from the University of Birmingham and is currently studying for an MSc
at the Centre for the Study of Global Ethics, University of Birmingham.
Her main interests include the study of economic theory and ethics,
dimensions of power and gender studies within a global context. She is
also an active member of the social movement ATTAC (Association for
the Taxation of Financial Transactions for the Aid of Citizens) within
and beyond the UK.
Victoria Firmo-Fontan is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Sabanci
University, Turkey. She holds a PhD from the Centre for Peace and
Development Studies at the University of Limerick, in the Republic of
Ireland. Positions held include a research associate position in the Centre
for Behavioural Research at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon,
and a Marie Curie research fellowship at the University of Deusto, Spain.
She specializes in issues of armed resistance and human trafficking. She
has held several diplomatic postings in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosov@.
Ivan Manokha is a PhD student at the University of Sussex working on
the discourse of human rights in the global political economy.
Bruno Moens is executive director at Payoke, Antwerp, Belgium. He
holds an MA in Criminology.
Rachel Nizan holds an MA in Latin American Area Studies from the
Institute of Latin American Studies in London. She spent a year working
with street children in Honduras, doing both social work and research.
Her main interests include children’s rights, human rights, development
and trade.
David Ould is deputy director of Anti-Slavery International. He has been
closely involved with UK campaigning on issues of the commercial
sexual exploitation of children and the use of bonded child labour in
the hand-knotted carpet industries of South Asia. He helped to establish
ECPAT UK and Rugmark UK to work on these issues and is on the boards
of both groups. He is the representative for Anti-Slavery International
on the Ethical Trading Initiative, a UK-based group that brings together
companies, trade unions and non-governmental organizations (NGOs)