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Child Labor Coalition

History Child Labor Coalition Celebrates 20-Plus Years of Advocacy Since its beginning, the National Consumers League (NCL) has cared deeply about the conditions under which consumer products are produced. In the early 1900s, NCL helped pass landmark

Community Development Forum Nepal

History CDF was established in 1994 by a group of people with experience in community development activities at the grassroots level. It focuses on socioeconomic development issues in rural communities. This encompasses leadership training, community

Women At Risk, International

History The history of Women At Risk, International (WAR, Int’l) far exceeds the dates of its formal establishment, reaching back into the childhood of founder and president Rebecca McDonald. McDonald’s international upbringing first exposed her to t

Oasis House

Mission: Oasis House offers hope and support to women victims of sexual exploitation by promoting healing, restoration, and empowerment through Christ's unconditional love, teaching practical life skills, and mentoring through a transformational proc

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

Social Media Raises $2 Million to End Bonded Labor

One of the main forms of slavery in the world today is bonded labor. This is also known as debt bondage, and it happens when people inherit a debt or are forced to work in slave-like conditions to pay off a loan. Bonded labor is often made to look li

The TIP Report's Dreaded Tier 3

© Manogamos, Algunas… “A Soldier took me away for Taking this Shot” (Flickr) (CC-BY-NC-ND) The TIP Report’s third tier is reserved for countries who “do not fully comply with the minimum standards and are not making significant efforts to do so.” Tw

Products Made by Child Labor - with Alternative Options

For the World Day Against Child Labor we wanted to add some products to our list! For more recommendations download our Slave Free Buying Guide. A question that anti-slavery activists often receive is: what types of goods are made using child labor?

Remembering and Interpreting Northern Slavery

The perception that American slavery existed exclusively in the South persists even after decades of scholarship detailing slavery in the North. Several factors contribute to the perpetuation of the slavery as Southern myth. To be sure, the overwhelm

Am I Still Not a Man and a Brother?

As noted in a recent gallery marking the 175th anniversary of Anti-Slavery International, photographs and images have long been central to antislavery campaigns. In this guest post drawn from a longer article, historian Zoe Trodd asks what contempor