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An estimated 45.8 million people are in slavery worldwide.

WE ARE A MODERN ABOLITIONIST MOVEMENT

In every country around the world, people are exploited against their willcontrolled by threats, debt, and violence. We call it by many names, but it amounts to the same thing: modern slavery. Slavery is illegal everywhere, but it continues to thrive because so many of us:
Don’t understand it • Don’t want to think about it • Don’t know how to change it
That’s where we come in. By joining Freedom United, you become part of the solution. We’ve proven time and time again: the collective voice can make a difference. So get started – and welcome to the movement!

WINS AND POLICY CHANGES

TRANSPARENCY TRIUMPH! Chocolate giants yield to our advocacy

 We are celebrating that Unilever and Mondelez, two of the biggest chocolate companies, caved to our pressure and participated in the newly released 5th edition of the Chocolate Scorecard! Our community has been asking them since last year’s Scorecard to be more transparent and share insights into their supply chains with the public. This is a great first step to hold them accountable for any labor exploitation, including forced child labor.   Unfortunately, our third target General Mills has yet again refused to participate. We are disappointed, but not discouraged! A new action to increase pressure on them is already in the works.  Thank you to everyone who wrote to the chocolate giants – your voices are powerful!  
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CAMPAIGN WIN! Plan My Gap Year finally acts

CAMPAIGN WIN! Plan My Gap Year finally acts and announces a policy to no longer offer placements in orphanages. We have been asking this of voluntourism operator PMGY since 2018 in order to undermine the business model of orphanage trafficking. Thanks to years of your sustained messages, PMGY has finally enacted policies that help protect children from trafficking. Read more about our campaign to end orphanage trafficking here, and read our field report on this win here.
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2023 For Freedom Awards

During Human Trafficking Prevention month, we awarded our For Freedom Awards to highlight and recognize exceptional work within the Freedom United community.
We’re so proud of everything the anti-modern slavery community achieved in a challenging human rights landscape. 
Discover all our award winners here!
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Inaugural For Freedom Awards

During January, Human Trafficking Prevention month, we launched Freedom United's inaugural For Freedom Awards to highlight and recognize exceptional work within the Freedom United community.
2022 was a difficult year but despite this, activists on the frontline against modern slavery worked tirelessly to campaign for change. We’re so proud of everything the anti-modern slavery community achieved in a challenging human rights landscape. 
Discover all our award winners here!
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Win! The Telegraph issues correction after publishing inaccurate modern slavery story

Success! The Telegraph has issued a correction after it published inaccurate figures on modern slavery claims last year.

Freedom United supporters, together with After Exploitation and Anti-Slavery International, wrote to the UK’s independent newspaper regulator IPSO requesting a correction be issued – and they listened! Read IPSO's ruling in full here. We won’t stand for poor reporting on modern slavery, particularly when the government seems intent on undermining trafficking survivors’ rights. It is vital that we set the record straight & demand accurate reporting on modern slavery. Sign the My Story, My Dignity pledge here.
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