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Buy Fair Trade Holiday Decorations

What better way to celebrate the holiday season than using fair trade decorations!  Holiday decorations remain at risk for being produced by slave labor and in 2012, the New York Times revealed that many holiday ornaments sold in the United States we

Watch a Documentary Dealing with Modern Day Slavery

Help raise awareness among your colleagues and peers by offering to host a movie night featuring a documentary that deals with modern day slavery.

Become a Digital Defender with Thorn

Fight against child sexual exploitation with Thorn. Thorn partners across the tech industry, government, and NGOs to leverage technology to combat predatory behavior, rescue victims, and protect vulnerable children. Become a digital defender to help

Decorate With One Fair Trade Item This Holiday Season

Decorate With On Fair Trade Item This Holiday Season December marks the beginning of the holiday season for many of us across the world. This year, opt to decorate with at least one fair trade holiday item to ensure a slave-free lifestyle. Not sure w

Opinion: No Person Deserves Enslavement

This week, the week of October 12th 2018, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported on the plight of a father of five. This story, Does slavery await father of five from Lockland fighting deportation back to Mauritania, outlines the challenges facing Amadou S

Learn How Design Can be a Weapon in the Fight Against Trafficking

Design Against Trafficking Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth used their oratorical skills to speak out against enslavement. Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote against enslavement with such verve Abraham Lincoln allegedly quipped upon meeting her "So yo

Labor Trafficking and Debt Bondage: “Tip of the Iceberg”

Labor trafficking and debt bondage in the United States of America is just the ‘tip of the iceberg'.  There is no actual data as over 80 percent of the cases of human labor trafficking is not reported for fear of arrest, deportation, stigma, shame, j

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

Restoring Basic Rights of Children Demobilized from the Conflict in Colombia

In the past 15 years, the topic about boys, girls and youth involved as combatants in illegal armed groups in Colombia has become more and more visible on the national public agenda. It has been brought up in conversations about management of the int

State-Imposed Forced Labor: History of Prison Labor in the U.S.

The current structure of the criminal justice system and state-imposed forced labor in the United States are deeply rooted in the legacies of slavery and the aftermath of the Civil War. The timeline below details pivotal policies and milestones since