by Bukeni Waruzi | Nov 21, 2020 | Advocacy, India, Nepal
What happens when the promise of a better tomorrow suddenly becomes a nightmare? The transatlantic slave trade was the largest forced migration in history. For more than four centuries, Africans were kidnapped, sold to slave traders, and forced onto slave ships...
by Terry FitzPatrick | Nov 16, 2020 | Thought Leadership
A new free downloadable resource from our partners at the University of Nottingham, including FTS Co-founder Kevin Bales: Today we are engaged in a global antislavery movement. But there have been at least four large antislavery movements in human history. We are part...
by Bukeni Waruzi | Nov 16, 2020 | Become an Abolitionist, Take Action
Did you know that Mauritania was the last country in the world to ban slavery? Slavery dates back hundred of years in Mauritania, from a period when Arab Berbers raided and enslaved black Africans settled along the Senegal River, dominating and eventually submitting...
by Terry FitzPatrick | Nov 10, 2020 | Advocacy, Thought Leadership
The Alliance to End Slavery and Trafficking (ATEST) stressed the need for a whole-of-government approach to combat human trafficking inside the U.S. and around the world in comprehensive recommendations to the incoming administration of President-elect Joe Biden....
by Bukeni Waruzi | Nov 5, 2020 | Advocacy, Become an Abolitionist, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Take Action
For more than 150 years Haiti and the Dominican Republic have shared the island of Hispaniola. Their relationship, however, has not been pleasant. Sadly, this antagonism has led to the creation of racially biased policies against Haitians in the Dominican territory. ...
