The terms “slavery” and “abolition” are widely recognized as referring to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, and the dates that this [...]
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The U.K. Illegal Migration Act promotes trafficking and is inhumane – full stop.
October 18th is Anti-Slavery Day, a day marked to symbolize the importance of raising awareness and the need to eradicate all forms of [...]
Disability and modern slavery: lack of attention as harmful as deliberate malice
This is an abridged version of the article originally published on Human Trafficking Search to support the three-part podcast series [...]
Remembering, reckoning and repairing: the importance of teaching history for a slavery-free world
The Transatlantic Slave Trade was rooted in race. It solidified the concept of white supremacy and the systematic displacement of [...]
Emancipation Day and the call for reparations
What do reparations movements look like where you are? Share your comments below! In the Caribbean, August 1 is Emancipation Day, an [...]
Freedom United welcomes Human Trafficking Search to our community
Freedom United is excited to announce that Human Trafficking Search is now part of the Freedom United family. The two organizations [...]
Kenyan domestic worker stranded in Lebanon over inability to buy her flight ticket
This piece is an account written by Wanja Kimani who helped support Catherine Ranji, a migrant domestic worker in Lebanon. June 19, [...]
Progress in the E.U. for laws that put people and planet before profit
By Joanna Ewart-James. The European Parliament approved a ground-breaking draft law on June 1, that would call on large [...]
David Yambio: “EU policy is killing us”
Video credit: Refugees in Libya “We have been killed, we have been raped, we have been tortured, we have been extorted, and we have [...]
I visited cocoa farmers in West Africa. Here’s what they told me.
The global chocolate industry has made major profits thanks to the work carried out in the cocoa-producing countries of West Africa, [...]
Chocolate companies’ fake sustainability claims won’t fly
“100% sustainably sourced cocoa,” says the sign on the stand promoting Cadbury, a popular chocolate brand of Mondelez International. [...]
Why chocolate companies must go beyond certified cocoa
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