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Support Social Workers in the Month of March

Support Social Workers in the Month of March Social Workers Awareness month is in March. This year, celebrate by supporting social workers in your area. Social Workers are often times the first person a victim of modern day slavery interacts with, th

Accessorize with Fair Trade Green for St. Patrick’s Day

Accessorize with Fair Trade Green for St. Patrick’s Day Friday, March 17th, 2018 is St. Patrick’s Day! Celebrate this year by accessorizing with something that is both green and fair trade in order to practice a slave-free lifestyle! St. Patrick’s Da

Celebrate the Passing of the FOSTA-SESTA Bill

Celebrate the Passing of the FOSTA-SESTA Bill The FOSTA-SESTA bill will make it possible for federal and state prosecutors to target websites that host sex-trafficking ads and enables victims and state attorneys general to file lawsuits against those

Give a Fair Trade Mother’s Day Gift

Mother’s Day is the second Sunday in May. Celebrate by giving all the mothers in your life a gift that is fair trade. If a product is fair trade certified, that means it is made with slave-free labor. Help encourage this practice by incorporating fai

Buy Fair Trade Wine

Buy fair trade wine for National Wine Day! In April of 2017, the New York Times published a story exposing the modern day slavery that exists in Italy’s wine industry. The report focused on a woman named Paola Clemente, a woman who spent 12 hours a d

Learn the Signs of Massage Parlor Trafficking

According to recently published research by Polaris, there are more than 9,000 illicit massage businesses - fronts for selling commercial sex - spread across every state in America. These businesses hide in plain sight, visible to those who know what

Nero's Guests

More than 50% of the population of India is involved in agriculture. Many of those farmers are trapped in cycles of debt and poverty thanks to unfair labor practices. This has led many farmers to take their own lives out of frustration and desperatio

Download TraffickCam

TraffickCam allows anyone with a Smartphone to combat sex trafficking by uploading photos of the hotel rooms you stay in when you travel. Traffickers regularly post photographs of their victims posed in hotel rooms for online advertisements. These ph

Read Polaris' Blog Post about Netflix's "Ozark"

The Netflix series "Ozark" explores the world of money laundering. If you are already a fan, you already know that people who bring in lot's of money from illegal activities like drugs or commercial sex need to "clean" or "launder" it so that it look

Happy Rosh Hashanah!

Rosh Hashanah, traditionally the start of the New Year in Judaism, began at sunset on September 9th, 2018. The holiday ends at nightfall two days later. Rosh Hashanah is a time of atonement for past wrongdoing and for looking ahead to new beginnings.