Who we are and what drives us
Our work is only possible through the generosity of our supporters. Your support helps us tackle the causes of modern slavery and create a society where everyone is free.
Our vision is a world free of modern slavery and human trafficking
We educate and empower our community on the realities of modern slavery and mobilise to create systemic change. We do this by making key stakeholders our allies in the fight against modern slavery.
Survivor advocates are vital to ending modern slavery. Through our My Story, My Dignity Pledge we have committed to ensuring that the images and language used to tell the stories of people with lived experiences of modern slavery are accurate and dignified.
Our vision is a world free of modern slavery and human trafficking
We educate and empower our community on the realities of modern slavery and mobilise to create systemic change. We do this by making key stakeholders our allies in the fight against modern slavery.
Survivor advocates are vital to ending modern slavery. Through our My Story, My Dignity Pledge we have committed to ensuring that the images and language used to tell the stories of people with lived experiences of modern slavery are accurate and dignified.
Our impact.
Support from our community and donors helps us address the root causes of modern slavery. Read our campaign reports and learn how you are helping us dismantle modern slavery.
Our impact.
Support from our community and donors helps us address the root causes of modern slavery. Read our campaign reports and learn how you are helping us dismantle modern slavery.
Why we use the term modern slavery
We use the umbrella term modern slavery for extreme forms of exploitation that constitute forced labor, forced marriage, debt bondage, bonded labor, trafficking for labor and sexual exploitation.
We believe that a world free of modern slavery can only exist when everyone recognises the contemporary forms of slavery and sets clear expectations that exploitation is not tolerable. Only then will we see a future in which modern slavery no longer thrives.
Our values .
Our values are integral to the way we work as a team, an organization, and a movement. They’re what power us to create a world free of modern slavery and human trafficking.
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Action
We bring together global voices to create power for sustainable change.
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Empowerment
We believe that the anti-slavery movement should be survivor-led.
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Transparency
We share what we know and collaborate wherever we can.
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Integrity
We prioritize accuracy over sensationalism, rather we embrace complexity and nuance.
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Community
We collaborate. Strong partnerships and coalitions is central to our impact.
What we believe.
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1. Mass action
Ending slavery requires widescale systems and values change that demands mass action from the bottom up for a society that’s intolerant to exploitation and successfully secures a sustainable end to modern slavery.
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2. Empowerment
Efforts to end modern slavery and human trafficking have been undermined by a victim-oriented approach that fails to draw on the power of survivors or create space for their leadership. We seek change through our My Story, My Dignity campaign and hold ourselves to account through our Content Guidelines.
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3. Systemic change
Systemic racism and discrimination contribute to the existence of modern slavery through governmental systems, in particular immigration policies and in criminal justice, in society’s tolerance of the exploitation of discriminated people and within the movement to end modern slavery. We recognize that racism and prejudice exist within our community and we will not tolerate it.
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4. Collaborative
Our role in the fight to end modern slavery is to mobilise action and direct it to power the movement. We do not deliver services or work directly with affected communities. Therefore we consult widely bringing local knowledge and expertise through partnerships with activists and organisations to inform our work.
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5. Consultative
Our staff recognises its privilege and the benefit that lived experience brings to our understanding of what change is needed. That’s why we consult and encourage advocates with lived experience to use Freedom United’s platform to spread their message.
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6. Identity diverse
Our small team and Board of Directors are relatively identity-diverse. We’re actively considering diversity and lived experience in recruitment. We recognise the benefits of unjust privilege, particularly western privilege and white privilege. We seek to be interrogating, open and progressive in our thinking to act in a way that supports our vision of equality.
Our people.
Freedom United is much bigger than the team of staff members, we’re a community. Our role is to give ways for you to be involved and use your voice to end human trafficking and modern slavery. Together we drive real change.
Our people.
Freedom United is much bigger than the team of staff members, we’re a community. Our role is to give ways for you to be involved and use your voice to end human trafficking and modern slavery. Together we drive real change.
Our partners.
We are proud to work with people and organizations around the world. Working in collaboration means we benefit from their expertise and they benefit from the power of our community. Wherever possible, Freedom United build coalitions of organisations so that our message is coordinated and our impact maximised. In this way, we have the influence necessary to challenge the systems that allows slavery to thrive
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