by Bukeni Waruzi | Dec 30, 2020 | Become an Abolitionist, COVID-19, FTS Updates, Ghana, Take Action
This has been a challenging year, but we know that 2021 holds the promise of renewal. While the COVID-19 pandemic has made racial inequality and modern slavery worse, the recovery will provide an opportunity for a global reset. We do not need to repeat the inequities...
by Gemma Bardaji | Dec 28, 2020 | COVID-19, Dominican Republic, I Am the Change, Take Action
Great news! Your generous contributions to our “Everyone Deserves a Mask” campaign earlier this year helped us deliver vital COVID-19 personal protective equipment and nutrition parcels in the Dominican Republic, just in time for Christmas. Our Dominican Republic...
by Bukeni Waruzi | Dec 23, 2020 | Become an Abolitionist, COVID-19, Ghana, India, Take Action
I have hope as we approach the year-end holidays, and I hope that you do, too. With the many challenges we face in promoting equality and universal freedom in the world today, what brings me hope is the optimism I hear from slavery survivors and their families around...
by Bukeni Waruzi | Dec 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
It must have seemed like an impossible challenge more than 150 years ago, that the moral imperative to end the slave trade and injustice it inflicted on Africans could actually succeed. Back then, slavery was considered ethically acceptable and economically necessary....
by Bukeni Waruzi | Dec 10, 2020 | Advocacy, Become an Abolitionist, Ghana, Take Action
It’s Human Rights Day, when the world commemorates the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which includes the right to be free from slavery. Human rights are supposed to apply to everyone, everywhere, without regard to sex or race or age. But in Ghana, three...