Search

End Slavery Now Honors Transgender Day of Remembrance

While anyone can fall victim to traffickers, certain populations are more at risk than others. Due to pervasive mistreatment and violence, a lack of family and community support, and financial insecurity due to employment discrimination, transgender

Sponsor a Former Restavek

Restaveks are children in Haiti who are forced to work as domestic servants. Your sponsorship provides children with tuition, books, a school uniform and an advocate who works on their behalf. 

Domestic Servitude

Victims of domestic servitude may appear to be nannies or other domestic help, but the moment their employment arrangement transitions into a situation whereby they cannot leave on their own free will, it becomes a case of enslavement. The circumstan

Forced Marriage

Forced marriage can be coupled with other forms of slavery. Children who are trafficked for sex may also be sold into forced marriages. An adult who is forcibly married may then be trafficked for labor or sex by and for the financial gain of his or h

Bonded Labor

Bonded labor is designed to exploit workers. The cyclical process begins with a debt, whether acquired or inherited, that cannot be paid immediately. Then, while the worker labors to repay the debt, the employer continues to add on additional expense

Urge Monster to Investigate Slavery Risk in its Drinks

Slavery is still a big problem in the global sugar industry. Sugar, mainly produced from sugarcane, is a main ingredient in most of Monster Beverage Corporation’s energy drinks, in the form of sucrose and glucose, and it is well-documented that force

Learn About UN Target 8.7

Target 8.7 is the United Nations' name for its aim to end all forms of forced labor, human trafficking, and child labor, including the use and recruitment of child soldiers. In fact, the UN hopes to end all forms of child labor by 2025. In order to h

Read "Labor Trafficking and Debt Bondage: 'Tip of the Iceberg'" by Harold D'Souza

Most modern-day enslaved people endure forced labor. Harold D'Souza was one of them. In 2003 Harold D'Souza came to the United States from India on an H1B Visa. A labor trafficker tricked him and his wife, Dancy, into working for a restaurant for not

ISIS, Yazidis and Crimes of Sex Trafficking in Iraq

You’ve certainly heard about the terror in Iraq during the last month with reports of 200,000 Iraqis fleeing for their lives as a radical Islamic terrorists attack, kill and rape tens of thousands. In addition to the obvious human rights abuses, we’r

Why it is Important to Celebrate the 13th Amendment

The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution states that “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject