by Terry FitzPatrick | Jun 28, 2021 | Mauritania, Thought Leadership
Mauritania is one of 22 nations that have volunteered to show the world that progress is possible in the global fight to end modern forms of slavery by stepping forward to become a “Pathfinder Country” under the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals....
by Free the Slaves | Jun 15, 2021 | Community Liberation Initiative
Free the Slaves’ Community Liberation Toolkit (CLT) continues to serve as a training tool for anti-slavery impact among grassroots organizations. Since 2020, following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, FTS has invested in the development of online tools to train and...
by Free the Slaves | Jun 11, 2021 | Advocacy
Saturday, June 12 is the U.N. World Day Against Child Labor, and this year takes on special importaance because 2021 is the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labor. Organizations around the globe, including Free the Slaves, have pledged to create special...
by Kuldeep Singh Chauhan | May 24, 2021 | India
Each year hundreds of thousands of workers from Uttar Pradesh, India, travel to jobs in Qatar, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Saudi Arabia, as well as to other countries in the Gulf region such as Jordan. These workers travel far from home for a foreign job in...
by Terry FitzPatrick | May 14, 2021 | Advocacy, Thought Leadership
Members of the Alliance to End Slavery and Trafficking (ATEST), including FTS Board Member Evelyn Chumbow, and leaders from the Congressional Human Trafficking Caucus and the Senate Caucus to End Human Trafficking gathered this week for a virtual briefing and...