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Category: Forced Labor

Pledge to end debt bondage in mica

Pledge to end debt bondage in mica mining

Credit: Courtesy of CNA and The Moving Visuals Co. Watch ‘The Ugly Side of Beauty’ here. “Three years ago I got a [...]

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Stand with domestic workers against kafala

Open letter to Lebanon’s Ministry of Labour

  To: Lebanon’s Ministry of Labour REF: Migrant Domestic Worker Wages Dear Ms. Lammia Yammine Douaihy, We are writing to [...]

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No slavery no exceptions - Amend the 13th

Amend the 13th : Outlaw slavery in the United States

Watch this important discussion on outlawing slavery in the U.S. It is 2022 and slavery and involuntary servitude is still legal in the [...]

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Call for laws that put people and planet before profits

Join the Justice is Everybody’s Business campaign to call for a strong E.U. law that holds businesses accountable for rights [...]

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End child exploitation in cocoa

Child slavery and child labor have plagued the cocoa industry in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana —which produce 60% of the world’s [...]

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End US forced prison labor

End slavery in the U.S. prison and detention industry

Watch our Instagram live conversation with Be Better Belmont. Forced labor should not be legal in the United States. But it is, and [...]

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Divest from forced labor in Eritrea

Watch our discussion on tackling forced labor in Eritrea. The Eritrean government’s program of mandatory and indefinite national [...]

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COVID-19: Call for survivor and migrant access to healthcare

Watch our discussion exposing the gaps between international standards and lived experiences of modern slavery protection. The COVID-19 [...]

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Free Uyghurs from forced labor in China

Make sure your name is included in our joint submission calling on the U.S. government to enforce the Uyghur forced labor goods ban. [...]

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Urge California to ensure all its temporary workers are free from slavery

Thousands of temporary workers are being trafficked into forced labor in California under threat of violence, deportation, and harm to [...]

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Lift the Ban: give survivors the right to work & live in dignity

Watch people on the streets of London share their thoughts on granting people seeking asylum the right to work. Instead of focusing on [...]

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Hotels: take action against slavery

No one should be above the law. Yet hotels are leaving workers and service-users at risk of exploitation, with some even failing to [...]

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Demand US Customs block imports of tainted palm oil

Did you know that there is a high risk that palm oil linked to forced labor and environmental destruction could end up on US [...]

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Malaysia: End debt bondage for migrant workers

The Malaysian government is proposing employers deduct 20% from migrant workers’ salaries. The reason? To prevent workers from fleeing [...]

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Traidcraft Exchange are Asking: Who Picked My Tea?

What tea brand do you drink? Did you know that many tea blends include tea from Assam, where people get poverty wages, are scared to [...]

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Help stop forced labor of detainees

“…detainees began to work in the kitchen just so they could eat more…one detainee lost 68 lbs. Their ‘volunteering’ involved literally [...]

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Ethical Production & Purchasing

Day 4: RESEARCH YOUR FAVOURITE BRAND Chances are decent that your clothing was made under less than ideal working conditions. But what [...]

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Drink coffee in the direction of freedom

When you buy fair trade coffee from Camano Island, Set Free receives 10% of your purchase. Learn more here.

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Urge Monster to investigate slavery risk in its drinks

Monster Beverage Corporation, which controls 43% of the U.S.’s energy drinks market, states that there is a “minimal risk” of slavery [...]

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No Penalty, No Progress: Urge Australia to make big business take action

We know all too well that many workers in Asia endure forced labor to bring us the garments, foods, electronics and other goods we [...]

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My Story, My Dignity Pledge

Click here to see our content guidelines. Click here to see our media guidance note. Click here to sign our events pledge. The [...]

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Expect more: tell Target to stop supporting slavery in Uzbekistan

Target Corporation often offers prices that seem too good to be true - how do they keep their prices so low? Turns out some of Target’s [...]

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Tell the Australian Government to give us a slavery free guarantee

Due to lax regulation, Australians are unwittingly spending up to $600 million a year on imported goods produced under slave labour [...]

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Call to End Slavery in Libya

Watch our video for World Refugee Day. The world was shocked when news of slave markets in Libya broke four years ago, but since then [...]

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