Canadian lawmakers are proposing a Modern Slavery Bill in an effort to crack down on the importing of goods tainted by child and slave [...]
Source: HuffPost
Will Burma’s Rohingya be the Next Refugee Crisis?
The Rohingya garnered much news attention last May when they were left at sea to die, abandoned by traffickers and denied entry into [...]
What Do You Care About? What Do You Wear?
What do you care about? What do you wear? If you care about something, then let it show in your clothing choices...
New Technology Tracks Trafficking
A new app prevents girls in India and Bangladesh from falling into the hands of traffickers. That is far better than trying to rescue [...]
School Trains Sex Trafficking Survivors to be Lawyers
A survivor says: “I want to fight against child sexual exploitation and help others like me.” A new Indian program is working with [...]
Huge drop in U.K. modern slavery referrals raises fears for hidden victims
A sharp drop in modern slavery referrals in the United Kingdom has raised fears that many victims are falling off the radar. The [...]
Elimination of Violence Against Women
Today is International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. And a good time to remember heroes like the Mirabal Sisters [...]
Abolitionist for the 21st Century
Robert Boneberg is an abolitionist in the 21st century. He is the former chairman of the board of Free the Slaves. Earlier this [...]
Education Cannot Wait Fund
A forth of the world's school children are living in the midst of wars and disasters, says UNICEF. They number 462 million children. [...]
Tourism and Slavery: When Vacations And Human Trafficking Meet
Holidays abroad are a luxury that many enjoy—an opportunity to relax and indulge. But the costs of production of the tourist experience [...]
Sand Onto Sidewalks For Victims
A New York artist, Molly Gochman, is asking folks to pour red sand on any sidewalk cracks they see. It's part of an installation art [...]
Losing American Manufacturing
Losing American manufacturing is a growing concern. In the first ten years of this century, the US lost 56,190 factories. That's 15 a day...
Natural Disasters Lead to Child Marriage
Natural disasters prompt aid agencies to provide the basics--food, water, and shelter--but it is very important, according to a new [...]
Giving a Voice to Those with None – My Story
Today, the International Labor Organization (ILO) explains that forced labor in the private economy produces US $150 billion in illegal [...]
Nestle’s Independent Study Shows Slavery
Nestle S.A commissioned a study by nonprofit Verite. Results showed trafficking--child labor and forced labor--in the company's supply [...]
Tattoo Artist Turns Scars into Symbols of Hope
Tattoo artist, Brian Finn, from Toledo, Ohio, is helping women turn their traumatic scars of domestic violence or human trafficking [...]
Evolving Perceptions of Human Trafficking
Evolving Perceptions. It's a group of interviews with people who are working to stop human trafficking, modern slavery, and commercial [...]
We Will See More Stories Like This. Demand More Support for Victims.
We are just starting to hear the horror stories about hidden British victims of modern slavery. “If the National Crime Agency’s [...]
Choosing who gets your travel business can help stop human trafficking
It's not terribly surprising to learn that many trafficking victims have been exploited in a hotel. It seems part and parcel of every [...]
Facts About Sex Work and Sexual Violence
Many organizations are taking part in 16 days of activism from November 25 (International Day for the Elimination of Violence against [...]
Obama Bans Goods Produced By Slaves
Obama has greatly slowed slave labor by signing into law a bill that will stop our country from importing a list of items that are [...]
Sankofa: Go Back and Get It
The word Sankofa, means to go back and get it. The author visits the African Cemetery in Key West, Florida, and writes not only about [...]
Southeast Asia’s Conflict-Driven Trafficking
Note: this analysis originally appeared in the East-West Center’s Asia Pacific Bulletin policy brief series on September 12, 2017. The [...]
ISIS views on Slavery and Abolitionism
Does Islam sanction slavery? Until recently, this question would have been seen as somewhat outlandish or else academic. It is akin to [...]