Tag: human trafficking
Apple has heard the critics and is now ready to dig deeper into Foxconn’s working conditions. The iPhone maker announced today that it has asked the Fair Labor Association (FLA), an organization “dedicated to ending sweatshop conditions in factories worldwide,” to investigate Foxconn facilities in Shenzhen and Chengdu, China. The first inspections began this morning in the [...]
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NYCUP Artist Courtney Wong releases her 5th stopmotion video in her anti-slavery youtube series. This month, we’re discovering how children in Cote d’Ivoire are impacted by our demand for chocolate–just in time to respond by how we make our Valentine’s Day chocolate purchases! Slave- and Child-Labor Free Chocolate Fair Trade Valentine’s Day Gift [...]
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The real crime is happening when no one’s looking and no one cares, not when every media outlet, advocate and cop has its sights set on it. As the founder and executive director of GEMS, the nation’s largest direct service provider to commercially sexually exploited and domestically trafficked girls and young women, and as a [...]
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A bill to toughen Indiana’s penalties for sex trafficking is now the law in Indiana. Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels signed the bill today, just in time for this Sunday’s Super Bowl, which officials fear could become a magnet for prostitution. The law gives greater latitude to prosecute those who force girls, some as young as [...]
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When I receved the email inviting me to join the LoGOFF project, committing to consumerisim that focuses on products that are “LOcal, Green, Organic, Fairtrade and (slave) Free”, my first thought was, ”NO. WAY.” This was in spite of the fact that I already am involved in an ongoing effort (two years and counting) to do exactly that. In fact, it was because of my experiences trying to be [...]
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Watch & SHARE this video for National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month! Human Trafficking in YOUR neighborhood? If you believe you may be a victim of human trafficking or have information about a potential trafficking situation, call the National Human Trafficking Resource Center at 1-888-3737-888 Or you can report a tip online here [...]
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When, as is true today, the richest 10 percent own 85 percent of the world’s wealth and the poorest 50 percent live off the crumbs of 1 percent of the total global wealth, you’ve created a market where slavery will thrive. Read this and more from “Slaves in Our Family”. Chinese Underground Churches start [...]
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