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Scott Downman is a journalist and lecturer in journalism at the University of Queensland. For the past 10 years he has been involved with community development projects Southeast Asia aimed at addressing human trafficking, labour exploitation and work migration. From 2007-2009 he worked as a fieldworker for the Thai-based NGO Mekong Minority Foundation, in an AusAID-funded project in northern Thailand examining the role media-based interventions play in combatting human trafficking. He is the director/founder of HELP International, an anti-human trafficking not-for-profit organisation and is passionate about human rights journalism.