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Give Fair Trade Chocolate to Your Valentine

Give Fair Trade Chocolate to Your Valentine February 14, 2018 is Valentine’s Day! Celebrate this day by giving your loved one fair trade chocolate and practice living a slave-free lifestyle! This gives you an opportunity to also educate your Valentin

Understand How Modern Day Slavery Affects Women and Girls

Understand How Modern Day Slavery Affects Women and Girls Women and girls account for an estimated 70% of the world’s 40.3 million enslaved population. That is more than half. This is based off of the 2017 Global Estimates of Modern Slavery—the lates

Understand How Massage Parlor Trafficking Victims are Controlled

Massage parlor trafficking is happening in plain sight, in businesses that operate as if they are legal massage or bodywork establishments. "It persists because we choose to ignore it — as something harmless, as something inevitable, or both: at best

Plan a Visit to the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center

If you are looking for a vacation destination, consider traveling to Cincinnati, Ohio and visiting the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, and particularly the modern-day slavery permanent exhibit, Invisible: Slavery Today. The National Und

Call on Congress to support the Protecting Girls' Access to Education in Vulnerable Settings Act

Senate Bill 1580 would urge consideration of the educational needs of vulnerable women and girls when designing, implementing, and evaluating US foreign assistance policies and programs. Lack of educational and entrepreneurial opportunities for women

Sign the Petition to Free Biram Dah Abeid

Biram Dah Abeid is a leading anti-slavery activist in Mauritania, the country with the highest prevalence of slavery in the world. He himself is the son of an enslaved person and ran for president of his country. The organization he founde

Ohio Emancipation Day

On September 22 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued a preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation. People gathered in public spaces to hear it read aloud, including at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus. This led to annual celebrations of em

Happy Navratri!

Navratri, which translates as "nine nights," honors the Devi, the great Goddess and divine Mother. It begins on the first new moon in early autumn, usually late September or early October. On each of the nine nights people observing Navratri celebrat

Learn about Enslavement in Mauritania

Even though Mauritania officially abolished enslavement in 1981, old traditions die hard. For millennia, Afro-Mauritanians have been considered members of an enslaved caste by their lighter skinned fellow countrymen. Enslaved Mauritanians typically w

Use Fair Trade Ingredients this Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving 2018 is tomorrow for those of us who live in the United States. As we prepare to gather with loved ones, many of us are busy getting ready to host a large dinner. Try supporting a slave free lifestyle by cooking with at least one fair tr