Credit: Courtesy of CNA and The Moving Visuals Co. “Three years ago I got a loan from a money lender of 4,100 Indian rupees ($60) [...]
Category: Forced Labor
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 [...]
Amend the 13th : Outlaw slavery in the United States
It is 2021 and slavery and involuntary servitude is still legal in the United States. Passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, [...]
Call for laws that put people and planet before profits
Right now, there are millions of people all over the world being forced to work to produce goods that we use every single day. But we [...]
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 [...]
End slavery in the U.S. prison and detention industry
Forced labor should not be legal in the United States. But it is, and it’s rife in the U.S. prison and immigration detention industry, [...]
Divest from forced labor in Eritrea
The Eritrean government’s program of mandatory and indefinite national conscription traps its population in forced labor for long [...]
COVID-19: Call for survivor and migrant access to healthcare
The COVID-19 crisis is laying bare the gaps in protection that exist for modern slavery survivors and at-risk migrants around the [...]
Free Uyghurs from forced labor in China
Write to Apple and fashion brands. Read Rahima’s story. Sign the petition. “If the government tells you to work, you go.” — [...]
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 [...]
Lift the Ban: give survivors the right to work & live in dignity
Instead of focusing on their recovery, the current UK system means after leaving situations of modern slavery, some victims go on to be [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
My Story, My Dignity Pledge
Click here to see our content guidelines. Click here to see our media guidance note. The anti-modern slavery sector relies on strong [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Call to End Slavery in Libya
The world was shocked when news of slave markets in Libya broke four years ago, but since then cases of modern slavery, slave trade and [...]