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Forced Labor
Know your rights this May Day
Worker’s rights are a cornerstone of the anti-trafficking movement. Protecting both children and adults from labor exploitation, forced labor, and labor trafficking are essential to mitigating the proliferation of modern day slavery. To celebrate this May Day, we want to make sure everyone reading our blog is aware of their worker’s rights!
The Reason for the Late Tax Day this Year
Every year Washington DC celebrates Emancipation Day to commemorate President Lincoln signing the DC Compensated Emancipation Act of 1862 which ended slavery in Washington DC, freed 3,100 people and reimbursed those who had legally owned them and offered the newly freed people money to emigrate.
Publication of the Month: Combating Child Trafficking and Bonded Labor in Rajasthan
In working to end modern slavery, the Freedom Fund commissioned two local organizations, Praxis and Partners in Change to conduct a feasibility study of an intervention to reduce the exploitation of children in Rajasthan, India.
Plight of Syrian Child Refugees in Lebanon
A report recently released by the Freedom Fund suggests that up to 70 percent of Syrian refugee children living in Lebanon work. They found that forced labor is becoming more common as refugees become more desperate.
Human Trafficking Surrounding the Olympics
The ongoing political, economic and public health crisis in Brazil coupled with the near-total lack of preparation for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games makes this a challenging time for Brazil. Besieged by rumors of shoddy construction, insufficient funds and inadequate planning…
Legislative Efforts to Reduce Labor Exploitation of Immigrant Workers
Recently, a new bill was introduced in Congress that would require greater transparency about foreign guest worker programs in an effort to help prevent labor trafficking and exploitation of such workers when they come to work in the U.S.
Slavery in the Thai Seafood Industry
It is not a new revelation that slavery plagues the global food system. Men, women and children are enslaved in …
Bonded Labor in South Asia
Bonded labor or debt bondage is the largest form of slavery in the world. Victims become bonded laborers when their …
Gang Involvement with Human Trafficking
Sex trafficking Sex trafficking has traditionally been propagated by small-time local opportunists looking to make a large profit with little …
Child Labor Blog Part III: Manufacturing in Asia
The third and final installment of the Child Labor blog series will focus on the manufacturing industry in Asia. Pakistan, …