The progress at risk
By Ellie Finkelstein, Freedom United
January 4th, 2026News Digest
OUR CAMPAIGN ISSUES IN THE NEWS
| Law & policy 25 years on: reflecting on the TVPA and Palermo Protocol—and the progress at risk As the new year begins, we reflect on the 25th anniversary of the UN Palermo Protocol and the US TVPA. Adopted in 2000, they transformed anti-trafficking efforts. Yet this milestone demands reckoning: trafficking persists at devastating scale, and hard-won progress is increasingly fragile. Show more… |
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| Speak free Why rapid growth in detention is a threat to ending forced labor Across the US, more than 200 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centers operate largely out of public view, holding people awaiting trial and subjecting them to alleged forced labor. Far from reflecting a lodestar of civil liberty, such abuses contradict proclaimed American values and violate basic human rights. Show more… |
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