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SUMMARY:Holding Companies to Account
DESCRIPTION:On March 4th Global Witness\, in partnership with Anti-Slavery International and the Clean Clothes Campaign\, will host an online conversation between European Union representatives and advocates from Colombia and India who are campaigning for justice for the serious harms inflicted on workers and communities by unscrupulous companies. \nCorporations enjoy unprecedented wealth and power. For years\, many have abused that power at immense human and environmental cost. Our legal systems are pitifully inadequate to stop this – governments and citizens have no real legal means to hold companies accountable for the harms they cause. \nTogether we will discuss what’s needed to introduce strong and enforceable laws. \nDate: 4th March 2021 \nTime: 10:30 Bogota/ 15:30 London / 16:30 Brussels / 21:00 Delhi \nLive interpretation will be available in Spanish\, Portuguese and French. \nYou can register here: https://act.globalwitness.org/page/75992/subscribe/1
URL:https://www.freedomunited.org/event/holding-companies-to-account/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Are we on the right track to enact an effective law to eradicate human trafficking?
DESCRIPTION:Korea has completely failed to respond to human trafficking. Perpetrators have not been punished\, meanwhile the victims were neglected and unprotected.Would it be possible for the perpetrators to be brought to justice and for the victims to be effectively protected with the new special law on human trafficking introduced at the end of 2020 by MP Sujin Lee?
URL:https://www.freedomunited.org/event/are-we-on-the-right-track-to-enact-an-effective-law-to-eradicate-human-trafficking/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210305T120000
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SUMMARY:Why Freedom United makes you powerful as part of a community against trafficking and modern slavery
DESCRIPTION:Why are people still exploited around the world and how?\nWho is Freedom United and how do they work?\nWhat can you do to help bring a future without exploitation?\n\n  \nMarch 5th 2021. 9 AM PST / 12 pm EST / 5 PM GMT. \n\n 
URL:https://www.freedomunited.org/event/why-freedom-united-makes-you-powerful-as-part-of-a-community-against-trafficking-and-modern-slavery/
LOCATION:Online
ORGANIZER;CN="Survivor%20Alliance":MAILTO:https://www.survivoralliance.org/contact
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SUMMARY:The STAND 2021
DESCRIPTION:Join us in a celebration of freedom! \nJoin your fellow freedom fighters\, MSNBC news anchor\, Richard Lui\, survivor advocates and our Freedom United staff as we look at what we’ve accomplished and what’s to come as we work towards a slavery-free world. With special guest Robin Wilson of the Gin Blossoms playing their greatest hits… well\, from his basement. \nOur virtual event will be held on March 5th from 7:00-8:00pm EST and you can register to attend here: https://thestand2021.funraise.org/
URL:https://www.freedomunited.org/event/the-stand-2021/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20210310T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20210310T140000
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SUMMARY:Fanm Rebèl: Excavating the Histories of Haiti's Women Revolutionaries
DESCRIPTION:The Haitian Revolution of 1791-1804 was the most radical antislavery and anticolonial struggle of the modern Atlantic World\, and the only successful slave revolution. Yet the dominant\, white-authored colonial archive conspicuously occludes the insurgent experiences of women. Even the histories that emerged out of Haiti in the wake of independence gave partial and fragmented insights into the lives of the women at the forefront of the struggle. \nIn this seminar\, Nicole Willson will talk about the challenges and scholarly imperative of resurrecting Haiti’s women revolutionaries from archival silence. She will talk about some of the important discoveries that she has made in attempting to excavate these narratives\, shedding light on the stories of women that have been too often consigned to the margins\, and looking at examples of recovery in the archives of imagination and creativity across the Black Atlantic. \nSpeaker: \nNicole Willson is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the University of Central Lancashire’s Institute for Black Atlantic Research (IBAR). After completing her PhD at the University of East Anglia in 2016\, Nicole worked at the Universities of Greenwich and Kent and\, from 2018-2019\, served as the Postdoctoral Research Associate on Celeste-Marie Bernier’s AHRC-funded project Our Bondage and Our Freedom: Frederick Douglass and Family (1818-2018) at the University of Edinburgh. She sits on the editorial board for the British Association of American Studies and has published in the Journal of American Studies\, Kalfou: A Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies\, Slavery & Abolition and Women’s Studies International Forum. In 2019\, she appeared on Dan Snow’s History Hit podcast and\, in January 2021\, she released a documentary filmed in association with the Haitian Chamber of Commerce on the British exile journey of Marie-Louise Christophe\, first and last Queen of Haiti. \nYou can register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fanm-rebel-excavating-the-histories-of-haitis-women-revolutionaries-registration-138961869693?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch
URL:https://www.freedomunited.org/event/fanm-rebel-excavating-the-histories-of-haitis-women-revolutionaries/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210311T120000
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SUMMARY:CSEC: Advanced Human Trafficking and Crimes of Human Exploitation.
DESCRIPTION:This course will look at case studies of Foreign National Trafficking\, Labor Trafficking\, Gang Trafficking\, Domestic Sex Trafficking\, Social Media Exploitation and Child Abuse materials with priority given to cases in Southern California. We will explore the victim vulnerability factors\, recruiting methods\, the grooming process and various types of recruitment and exploitation. We will look at a wide range of foreign national trafficking rings operating in Southern California and how they are similar and how they are different. We will do a comparative study of Gang trafficking. Also\, we will address how predators use the latest technologies and sophisticated social media strategies to challenge law enforcement in crimes of child sexual exploitation. \n\n\nWorkshop led by Opal Singleton. \nOpal Singleton is the President and CEO of Million Kids and serves as the Training and Outreach Coordinator for the Riverside County Anti-Human Trafficking Task Force. She has trained more than 250\,000 government and individual leaders about labor trafficking\, child sex trafficking\, sextortion\, child pornography and social media exploitation. She often appears on television and radio talk shows across the United States. \nOpal is an Instructor at USC Price Safe Communities Institute and a Co-Instructor at the USC School of Social Work for the Los Angeles Police Department LEAD program. She is an Instructor at Los Angeles Fire Leadership Training Academy and has served on the Peace Officers Standardized Training panel to develop the training curriculum on human trafficking for law enforcement for the State of California. She also sits on the Board of Directors for Rapha House International in Cambodia\, Thailand and Haiti. \nOpal is the author and hosts two weekly radio shows. KTIE 590 AM broadcasts “Exploited: Crimes and Technology” throughout Southern California. “Exploited: Crimes against Humanity” is a weekly global internet human exploitation training program that broadcasts through Voice America to more than 170 countries. \nYou can register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/csec-advanced-human-trafficking-and-crimes-of-human-exploitation-registration-133274013161?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch&keep_tld=1
URL:https://www.freedomunited.org/event/csec-advanced-human-trafficking-and-crimes-of-human-exploitation/
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SUMMARY:Frank Dawtry annual memorial lecture 2021 - Dame Sara Thornton
DESCRIPTION:The Centre for Criminal Justice Studies is delighted that this year’s Frank Dawtry Memorial lecture will be delivered by Dame Sara Thornton. In this lecture\, Dame Sara Thornton will be speaking about the following points which are focused on the theme “Policing Modern Slavery.” \n• Modern slavery in the UK and the Commissioner’s role\n• Treating modern slavery as serious organised crime\n• UK policing structures and approach to modern slavery \n  \nBio: \nDame Sara Thornton has worked in policing since 1986\, when she joined the Metropolitan Police. During her 33 year career within policing she served as Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police from 2007 until 2015 and was appointed the first Chair of the NPCC in 2015. She has also received the Queen’s Police Medal and\, in 2011\, was awarded a CBE. \nDame Sara Thornton is the current UK’s Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner. She was appointed by the Home Secretary at the time\, Sajid Javid\, in succession to Kevin Hyland who left the post in May 2018. \n 
URL:https://www.freedomunited.org/event/frank-dawtry-annual-memorial-lecture-2021-dame-sara-thornton/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:American street kid - standup for kids
DESCRIPTION:We’re thrilled to have StandUp for Kids host this screening of American Street Kid with a Live Q&A featuring kids from the film and the filmmakers. \nIn American Street Kid\, filmmaker Michael Leoni takes you on a journey into a world that most people don’t know exists. A world where in order to survive\, kids are forced to sell drugs\, beg for money or sell their bodies. Their powerful stories are heartbreaking and their unrelenting hope and determination to create a better life shines through\, in this true tale of love\, friendship\, and the triumph of the human spirit.
URL:https://www.freedomunited.org/event/american-street-kid-standup-for-kids/
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SUMMARY:Forced Marriage in the U.S.: A Screening of Knots and Discussion With Its Stars
DESCRIPTION:As the United Nations launches the (virtual) 65th session of the Commission on the Status of Women — the world’s largest annual gathering on women’s rights — we are launching a parallel event. \nForced and child marriage are human rights abuses that remain legal in most of the United States\, impacting mostly women and girls. These abuses often mean a lifetime of rape\, abuse and domestic servitude\, and the loss of reproductive and financial rights. \nLet’s hear directly from three U.S. forced marriage survivors whose stories are chronicled in the award-winning\, feature-length-length documentary film Knots. We’ll watch the film together\, then Mabel van Oranje of Girls Not Brides will moderate a discussion with the three survivors and the film producer how eradicating forced and child marriage is necessary to achieve gender equality. \nYou can register here: https://www.unchainedatlast.org/knots-at-csw65/
URL:https://www.freedomunited.org/event/forced-marriage-in-the-u-s-a-screening-of-knots-and-discussion-with-its-stars/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:UoN Diversity Festival: Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic on Modern Slavery
DESCRIPTION:As part of the University’s Diversity Festival\, the Rights Lab would like to invite you to an online event to share their research on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on modern slavery. \nThe Rights Lab is the world’s largest research centre on modern slavery\, and home to the world’s leading modern slavery experts. Our challenge-led\, team-based approach to research fosters interdisciplinary collaboration between Rights Lab researchers representing 17 different disciplines from five different University faculties. The Rights Lab works closely with stakeholders in government\, civil society\, business\, and intergovernmental institutions to deliver practically impactful research that speaks directly to the antislavery movement and those working in the field. \nIn 2020\, the Rights Lab successfully secured six grants from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) as part of several rapid response calls to Covid-19. \nThis online event will allow those undertaking this research to update you on their findings. \nThe six projects: \n• COVID-19 Risk and Response: Impacts and Mitigations for Modern Slavery Victims and Survivors \n• COVID-19 and Child Criminal Exploitation: Closing urgent knowledge and data gaps on the implications of the pandemic for county lines \n• Assessing the Impact of COVID-19 on People Vulnerable to\, or Already Experiencing\, Forced Marriage \n• The Impacts of COVID-19 on Modern Slavery in Transition: A Case Study of Sudan \n• Building Local Resilience to Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking after COVID-19: Action-Research in Senegal and Kenya. \n• Reducing the Risks of Exploitation for Romanian Seasonal Labour Migrants after COVID-19 \nPlease register for this event which will be held via Microsoft Teams. A meeting link will be sent to all registered participants on Monday 15 March. \nYou can register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uon-diversity-festival-impact-of-covid-19-pandemic-on-modern-slavery-registration-135502550777?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch
URL:https://www.freedomunited.org/event/uon-diversity-festival-impact-of-covid-19-pandemic-on-modern-slavery/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Book club LIVE: Kenway and Pang unpack slavery's role in the political economy
DESCRIPTION:Bookworms\, Freedom United has a special event for you! We are hosting a discussion with two brilliant and brand new authors and invite you to join in the conversation. \nEmily Kenway\, whose critically acclaimed book titled ‘The Truth About Modern Slavery’\, reveals how modern slavery has been created as a political tool by those in power. It shows how anti-slavery action acts as a moral cloak\, hiding the harms of the ‘hostile environment’ towards migrants\, legitimising big brands’ exploitation of the poorest workers and oppressing sex workers\, providing a vital challenge to conventional narratives on modern slavery. \nAmelia Pang whose incredibly timely book ‘Made in China: A Prisoner\, an SOS Letter\, and the Hidden Cost of America’s Cheap Goods’\, explores the experience working in a forced labor camp through Sun Yi\, a Falun Gong practitioner\, producing goods that end up on the shelves of U.S. shops. \nThe discussion will be moderated by Baroness Lola Young OBE\, herself a woman of letters with an honorary doctorate from the University of Nottingham\, a published author and a former chair of the judging panel for the Booker Prize. Baroness Young of Hornsey has also made important contributions to the fight against modern slavery in the UK parliamentary upper house where she sits\, notably introducing the offence of forced labor to the UK’s statute books in 2009. \nJoanna Ewart-James\, Freedom United’s Executive Director\, will also be joining the conversation and you can too\, as the speakers will be ready to answer questions from the Freedom United community. \nWeds March 24th 12pm ET\, 4pm GMT\, 5pm CET
URL:https://www.freedomunited.org/event/book-club-kenway-pang/
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