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SUMMARY:Thai El Monte Garment Workers: The Return of Slavery and Trafficking in The Modern Era
DESCRIPTION:At 4 am on August 2\, 1995\, Chanchanit Martorell\, Executive Director of the Thai Community Development Center\, met with government authorities and law enforcement at a doughnut shop in El Monte\, California\, blocks from the slavery compound that they would raid\, a row of apartment duplexes on a residential street\, eerily surrounded by barbed wire. The US Department of Labor\, California Labor Commission\, California Employment Development Department\, Cal-OSHA\, federal marshals\, and the El Monte police participated in the raid.  \nThai CDC mobilized a coalition of nonprofit organizations\, attorneys\, and community members to offer shelter\, food and clothing\, medical care\, jobs\, and legal services to the workers following their liberation.\n​\nThe Thai workers had labored for 18 or more hours every day inside rat-infested buildings where they lived crammed into bedrooms with ten of their fellow slaves. Their captors controlled them by confiscating passports\, hiring armed guards\, and physically threatening them and their families back home.  \nThey made clothes for brand-name manufacturers and nationwide retailers. Garments bore the labels Anchor Blue\, Tomato\, Clio\, B.U.M.\, High Sierra\, Axle\, and others—labels owned by well-known retailers\, such as Miller’s Outpost and Montgomery Ward\, or sold on the racks of Nordstrom\, Sears\, and Target. \nEl Monte was the first recognized case of modern-day slavery in the United States\, leading to the passage of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act in the year 2000. This exhibition tells the story of the case from the perspective of the survivors\, featuring their testimonies\, images and maps of the compound\, and other artifacts.​ \n(June 10- September 5 2021)
URL:https://www.freedomunited.org/event/thai-el-monte-garment-workers/
LOCATION:Los Angeles United Methodist Museum of Social Justice\, 115 Paseo de La Plaza\, LA\, CA 90012\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ending Modern Day Slavery: Towards an EU Import Ban on Forced Labour
DESCRIPTION:Around 25 million people are estimated to be in forced labour around the world. The products they make often land in the European market\, and so we unwillingly consume and contribute to this exploitation. But this should not be the case! The European Parliament has called several times for a new EU instrument that allows for import bans on products related to forced labour. The US already has such a tool in place. In late 2020\, the Greens/EFA Group published a study examining different ways this could be implemented at EU level. A few months later\, the European Commission committed to an impact assessment to investigate effective action and enforcement mechanisms to ensure that forced labour does not find a place in the value chains of EU companies. \nIn this webinar\, we will hear from EU Trade Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis on the state of play on EU trade policy and forced labour. After his keynote speech\, he will discuss this issue together with MEPs Anna Cavazzini\, Heidi Hautala and Reinhard Bütikofer and with human rights defender Andy Hall\, and Anti-Slavery International’s business and human rights manager Chloe Cranston. \nAgenda \nOpening by MEP Heidi Hautala \n• Keynote by Executive Vice-President of the European Commission\, Trade Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis \nPanel discussion\, moderated by MEP Reinhard Bütikofer\, with: \n• MEP Anna Cavazzini\n• EVP Valdis Dombrovskis\n• Andy Hall\, human rights defender\n• Chloe Cranston\, business and human rights manager at Anti-Slavery International\n• Q&A with the panel \nClosing by MEP Anna Cavazzini
URL:https://www.freedomunited.org/event/ending-modern-day-slavery/
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