Survivors' Voices, Stories, and Images: Survivor-Led Empowerment Through Ethical Story-Telling and Participatory Photography in Kenya

来自人权实验室(诺丁汉大学)、HAART肯尼亚和世界读者的研究人员已经在GCRF Network+项目上合作了12个月，该项目使用伦理讲故事和参与式摄影方法，放大并增强肯尼亚境内和国外人口贩运幸存者的声音。我们的目标是在该项目成功的基础上，通过与肯尼亚政府、其他幸存者研究人员以及肯尼亚和其他地方的普通公众开展有影响力的活动，来实现赋予幸存者权力和扩大幸存者声音的目标。我们的参与者讲习班表达了幸存者的愿望和需求，并与其他非政府组织开展了新的合作，由此产生了开展这项工作的新方法。我们还寻求通过我们在新冠肺炎大流行期间开发的创新，以我们关于如何以道德方式远程与幸存者合作的新知识为基础；在相关学术和非学术社区中更广泛地传播这一知识；并影响使用这些技术的人和/或与人口贩运幸存者(和其他弱势群体)合作的做法。通过这种方式，我们的目标是提高幸存者工作的质量，并对参与性研究的可能性产生更广泛的影响，即使受到全球大流行等外部冲击的影响。我们将根据幸存者在肯尼亚打击人口贩运政策和实践中确定的需求，以及他们作为领导者和研究人员自身发展的需要，与幸存者一起举办进一步的讲习班。我们将帮助他们将他们的故事和政策建议呈现在肯尼亚政界人士面前，以及更广泛的肯尼亚和国际受众面前。我们将支持他们发展成为幸存者领袖，并支持他们与其他希望在反人口贩运和反奴隶制研究和行动中发挥类似作用的幸存者的接触。我们还将制作一系列传播成果，以引起人们对他们在肯尼亚和国际上的故事、图像、经历和变革呼吁的关注。这有可能从根本上改变肯尼亚的反人口贩运格局。我们将在内罗毕、利物浦和网上的展览中更广泛地传播幸存者参与者创作的艺术作品，并在世界读者的免费全球电子阅读器平台上以英语和斯瓦希里语主办幸存者创作的故事。我们希望增加我们对公众对贩运人口的知识和幸存者经历的影响，增进了解，从而解决参加我们讲习班的妇女以及世界各地更多幸存者经常面临的耻辱和边缘化问题。

Researchers from the Rights Lab (University of Nottingham), HAART Kenya and World Reader have been working together for 12 months on a GCRF Network+ project using ethical-storytelling and participatory-photography methods to amplify and empower the voices of survivors of human trafficking in Kenya both within their own country and abroad. We aim to build on the project's success to further our aims of empowering and amplifying the voices of survivors through impactful activity with the Kenyan government, other survivor-researchers, and the general public in Kenya and elsewhere. New ways of doing this have emerged from the aspirations and needs of survivors as expressed in our participant workshops, and from new collaborations with other NGOs. We also seek to build on our new knowledge of how to work remotely with survivors in ethical ways, through innovations we developed during the COVID-19 pandemic; to disseminate this learning more widely among relevant academic and non-academic communities; and to impact on the practice of people working with these techniques and/or with survivors of human trafficking (and other vulnerable groups). In this way, we aim to improve the quality of work being done with survivors, and have a wider impact on the possibilities of participatory research even when affected by exogenous shocks like a global pandemic. We will run further workshops with survivors, following on from the needs they have identified in Kenyan anti-trafficking policy and practice and for their own development as leaders and researchers. We will help them to get their stories and policy proposals in front of Kenyan politicians, and wider Kenyan and international audience. We will support their development as survivor-leaders, and their engagement with other survivors looking to play a similar role in anti-trafficking and anti-slavery research and action. We will also produce a range of dissemination outputs to bring attention to their stories, images, experiences and calls for change in Kenyan and internationally. This has the potential to radically transform the anti-trafficking landscape in Kenya. We will disseminate the arts-outputs created by our survivor-participants more widely in exhibitions in Nairobi, Liverpool, and online, as well as hosting stories produced by survivors in English and Swahili on World Reader's free, global, e-reader platform. We look to increase our impact on public knowledge of human trafficking and the experience of survivors, improving understanding, and thereby tackling the stigma and marginalisation often faced by the women participating in our workshops, and many more survivors around the world.