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Alliance 8.7 and Accountability Framework Webinar Report
Alliance 8.7 and Accountability Framework Webinar Report On 15 June 2023, Free the Slaves and the Alliance 8.7 secretariat in Nepal hosted a webinar to increase awareness of Alliance 8.7, the Pathfinder countries, and the accountability framework. The target audience...
Leading Change in Cambodia: Free the Slaves Leads Anti-Slavery Training
Free the Slaves (FTS) continues empowering grassroots organizations around the world with its innovative Community Liberation Toolkit (CLT). FTS has expanded its horizons by diving into the core of Southeast Asia with the Chab Dai Coalition in a remarkable stride. ...
Freedom From Slavery Global Forum 2023 & The Survivor-Centered Movement: Reshaping The World
The Freedom from Slavery Global Forum 2023 started as specialists, survivors, officials, and activists gathered from all over the world. The forum's rallying cry was "Time to Act: Galvanizing Around a Survivor-Centered Anti-Modern Slavery Movement," and it aimed to...
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Learning About Slavery is the First Step to Ending It
January is Slavery and Trafficking Prevention Month in the U.S. It's an important opportunity to learn why slavery still exists, what can be done to end it, and how you can help. Thanks to the Lowenstein Sandler law firm, there's a one-hour video that will help you...
How to End Slavery at Work
January is National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month. It’s a great time to take a stand against modern slavery by making a monthly contribution to Free the Slaves through your employer. U.S. GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES: This week is the deadline to join the...
Can You Envision a World Free from Slavery?
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...
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Training Journalists and Activists in Mauritania to Promote Government Accountability and Social Inclusion
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....
Free the Slaves Training Toolkit Reinforces Kenyan Organizations’ Anti-Slavery Response
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...
ATEST Briefs Congress on Opportunities for Action
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...
News
COVID-19 Impact on Communities Plagued by Slavery
I hope that you and your family are healthy and safe during these difficult times. I am reaching out to you today to share about how the Covid-19 global pandemic is affecting communities where slavery makes people especially vulnerable to disasters and financial...
Global Freedom One Community at a Time
Dear Friends and Supporters, I write this letter as I shelter in place amidst the spreading of the coronavirus pandemic. The close tethering to our homes underscores the importance of communities even in today’s hyperconnected world. Likewise, eliminating slavery...
Dealing With the Present, Preparing for What Comes Next
The countries where Free the Slaves works (Ghana, India, Haiti, Nepal and Dominican Republic) have not reached peak level in the COVID-19 pandemic. But it is affecting them all, directly or indirectly. And we know from experience that every crisis has an aftermath....
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Slavery Survivors Help to Free Others in Haiti | Passover 5779/2019
The holiday of Passover has a foundational premise, based in biblical narrative and law: those who suffer enslavement have a unique insight and responsibility to help the vulnerable. As Exodus 23:9 declares: “Do not oppress the stranger, for you know the soul of a...
Voices for Change
From an early age I felt the vocation to do everything in my power to fight injustice, and I have been working for more than 20 years to advance human rights and gender equality in different countries. Injustice is manifested in different ways with different...
FTS Launches New Program in Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic (D.R.) is a source, transit and destination country for trafficking in persons (TIP). Trafficking is pervasive in agricultural production for sugar, rice and coffee, the construction sector in expanding urban zones, domestic servitude, forced...
Asia
FTS Launches Our First Training Webinar in the Philippines
The Free the Slaves Community Liberation Toolkit (CLT) continues to provide learning opportunities for anti-slavery grassroots organizations worldwide. Following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, FTS has invested in developing online tools to train and mobilize...
New Guide to Protect International Migrants from Human Traffickers
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...
Free the Slaves Training Toolkit Goes Virtual in India
The Free the Slaves Community Liberation Toolkit is a key capacity-building tool to catalyse a civil society movement against slavery. Designed to train frontline field staff in anti-slavery strategies and integrate anti-slavery activities into the work of high-impact...
Africa
Freedom from Slavery Forum Begins Regional Convenings
The Freedom from Slavery Forum is pioneering new ground this year as the anti-slavery movement’s premiere thought-leadership convening. For the past eight years, the Forum has been a collegial space for anti-slavery leaders from around the world to coalesce, create...
Training Journalists and Activists in Mauritania to Promote Government Accountability and Social Inclusion
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....
We Won’t Botch Afryea’s Freedom
America botched the abolition of slavery in the 1860s, a mistake that has consequences for descendants of enslaved African Americans even today. Slavery was outlawed, but millions of liberated slaves weren’t allowed to build prosperous lives in freedom. This is why...