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Building Legal Literacy to Protect Children in Mauritania
Free the Slaves and SOS Esclaves brought together thirty civil society representatives in Nouakchott, Mauritania, for a training on the legal frameworks that protect children from labor exploitation. The session is part of a broader program supporting paralegals, journalists, and Mauritania’s progress as an Alliance 8.7 Pathfinder Country. Participants studied national and international child labor law and left with concrete action plans for their own organizations.
Una Nueva Herramienta para la Acción: Diez Conversaciones que Abren Oportunidades contra la Esclavitud Moderna en América Latina
Conversaciones sobre Esclavitud Moderna reúne a agencias de la ONU, profesionales de gobierno, voces del sector privado, personas sobrevivientes e investigadores en una colección en español — un recurso práctico para quienes trabajan en la prevención de la explotación en América Latina, justo cuando las nuevas regulaciones comerciales convierten ese trabajo en una ventaja de acceso a mercados.
A New Tool for Action: Ten Conversations that Open Opportunities against Modern Slavery in Latin America
Conversaciones sobre Esclavitud Moderna brings together UN agencies, government practitioners, private sector voices, survivor leaders, and researchers in one Spanish-language collection — a practical resource for anyone working to prevent exploitation in Latin America, right when new trade regulations are turning that work into a market access advantage.
Survivors Take the Lead – A Week That Moved Guatemala’s Anti-Child Labor Agenda Forward
Survivor experts in Guatemala moved from testimony to training to a seat at the policymaking table this month. Free the Slaves reports on a week of advocacy training, high-level government meetings, and a new coordination agreement with Guatemala’s anti-trafficking secretariat.
Investigators Training Workshop on Human Rights Violations in Cocoa-Growing Communities
Community monitors can identify risk factors. Corporate sustainability staff can recognize warning signs. But when a report of a human rights violation formally reaches an investigator or social worker, something different is required: legal knowledge, investigative...
Tucumán, Argentina Validates Local Roadmap Against Human Trafficking for Labor Exploitation
Free the Slaves and UNODC worked alongside officials in Tucumán, Argentina, to validate a local roadmap addressing human trafficking and forced labor. The workshop marked a step toward a coordinated municipal response built with the teams responsible for carrying it out.
Communities taking the lead: Combating forced labor risk factors in Cameroon’s cocoa belt
Lasting change against forced labor risk factors takes more than outside intervention. It takes systems that communities themselves sustain. In four cocoa-producing communities in Cameroon, trained committees, engaged traditional leaders, and a radio campaign reaching remote households are building exactly that kind of durable, locally led infrastructure. Free the Slaves and its partners are supporting the work, but the committees, chiefs, and community monitors are the ones carrying it forward, meeting by meeting, risk factor by risk factor.
Building frontline knowledge to combat modern slavery in Nigeria’s cocoa communities
The people most likely to notice when exploitation is happening in a cocoa community are often the ones no one thinks to train. They are the staff who visit farms, hold conversations with households, and observe working conditions firsthand. They are close to the...
Rebuilding on Her Own Terms: How Survivor Leadership Is Changing the Response to Sex Trafficking in Senegal
Lasting change in anti-trafficking work requires protection systems and the people those systems serve to work in genuine partnership. At 28, Glory reflects what that looks like. After surviving sex trafficking across five countries on a false promise of education abroad, she has rebuilt her life in Kédougou, Senegal, and now volunteers at the shelter where she once found safety, offering peer support to other survivors and building a future on her own terms.