by Free the Slaves | Oct 14, 2021 | Advocacy, Thought Leadership
Editor’s Note: This guest blog from a Free the Slaves advocacy partner in the Alliance to End Slavery and Trafficking highlights how a key program to fight modern slavery in American agriculture has moved from a theory of change to a proven solution. The Coalition of...
by Free the Slaves | Oct 12, 2021 | Advocacy, COVID-19, India, Nepal, Philippines, Vietnam
Anti-slavery movement leaders across Asia convened virtually via Zoom in August at the first-ever Freedom from Slavery Forum – Asia to discuss issues most pertinent to the continent and set priorities for next year around the theme of “Resilience and Resistance...
by Terry FitzPatrick | Oct 7, 2021 | Advocacy, Slavery-Free Commerce
Free the Slaves Executive Director Bukeni Waruzi and 33 other anti-trafficking leaders are asking the Group of Seven industrialized nations to step-up and coordinate action against forced labor worldwide. Earlier this year at the G7 Summit in the U.K., world leaders...
by Free the Slaves | Oct 5, 2021 | Advocacy, Kenya, Research, Monitoring & Evaluation, Senegal
To date, the cost of the global COVID-19 pandemic has most frequently been measured in lives lost and the cost to domestic economies, while triumphs have often been charted in terms of vaccine roll-outs and partial or full returns to the ‘freedoms’ outside lockdown. ...
by Terry FitzPatrick | Sep 28, 2021 | COVID-19, India, Thought Leadership
International development and humanitarian relief programs frequently work in areas where modern slavery flourishes. This connection has deepened as the COVID-19 global pandemic increases social and economic vulnerabilities to human trafficking. But in India, a...