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Freedom United: NEW EVENT – Dissecting your top campaigns!
Join us next Thursday April 21 at 11am EST (4pm BST, 5pm CET) for our first ever deep dive event into the Freedom United community’s most active campaigns! So much has happened this year so we think now is a good time to reflect…
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“Monica Burns, Freedom United” [email protected] We feel so lucky to be part of this vast and varied community united in our mission to end modern slavery around the globe. In fact, we think one of the Freedom United community’s greatest strengths is its diversity. …
ACT NOW: Survivors need your support
By Jamison Liang, Freedom United UPDATE: The Safer Streets For All Act which has successfully passed out of the legislature is due to land on California’s Governor Newsom’s desk soon! This is a crucial moment – add your support and call on Governor…
Make a difference this Giving Tuesday!
From Joanna Ewart-James, Freedom United Today is the day! We’re asking if this Giving Tuesday you’ll consider donating the price of a t-shirt to the platform powering campaigns to hold companies accountable. We need just 619 people to donate $10 to reach our…
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WATCH: Special event on child labor
From Krysta Bisnauth, Freedom United Freedom United held a special event on child labor yesterday 18 November. They were joined by Mavuto Banda, Jonathan Blagbrough and Faith Manyala, experts on child slavery and children’s rights who helped unpack the complexities of tackling forced…
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Controversial immigration bill will punish survivors
“Miriam Karmali, Freedom United” [email protected] November 14, 2021 News Digest OUR CAMPAIGN ISSUES IN THE NEWS Law & policy Police raise alarm over how immigration bill will punish trafficking survivors Senior police officers have criticized measures in the U.K.’s controversial…
Campaigners urge U.K. to criminalize child marriage
Forced marriageFreedom United community powers open letter urging U.K. to ban child marriageMore than 20 organizations signed an open letter to the U.K. Prime Minister this week calling on the government to criminalize child marriage, a move that would protect…
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Pornhub listened…
By Miriam Karmali, Freedom United Good news. After nearly 20,000 Freedom United supporters wrote to Mastercard, Visa and Discover[1] leading them to suspend payments on Pornhub, the company has now released its first transparency report,[2] announcing measures it’s putting in place to address trafficking on its…
Urge Florida University to divest from forced labor in prisons
BY Herrana Addisu, Freedom United We are still waiting for the University of Florida to address racism and inequity by implementing a set of initiatives it outlined one year ago! The university committed to ending the use of incarcerated labor contracts, often linked to allegations of…
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Criminalization of sex work won’t prevent trafficking
By Miriam Karmali, Freedom United April 18, 2021 News Digest OUR CAMPAIGN ISSUES IN THE NEWS Law & policyWhy Nordic Model policy pushed in the U.K. won’t tackle sex traffickingThis week, a push for the U.K. to adopt Nordic Model…
