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Walk Free is an international human rights group based in Perth, Western Australia.Its goal is the end of modern slavery. [1]Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 8.7 – part of a framework adopted by the United Nations in 2015 – seeks to end modern slavery by appealing to the international community. [2]
The Freedom Fund is an international non-profit organisation dedicated to identifying and investing in the most effective frontline efforts to end slavery. [1] [2] In 2017, the International Labour Organization reported that on any given day in 2016, there were 40 million people living in modern slavery worldwide across a wide range of industries.
Slavery Footprint, a nonprofit organization based in Oakland, California, that works to end human trafficking and modern-day slavery [23] Stop Child Trafficking Now, an organization founded by Lynette Lewis, an author and public speaker [24] Stop the Traffik, a campaign coalition which aims to bring an end to human trafficking worldwide
Slavery and racism casts a long shadow over the history of criminal justice in the US, and in particular the South, from the origins of many modern police departments in slave patrols, to the ...
The world’s 20 richest countries are fueling forced labor and account for over half the estimated 50 million people living in “modern slavery,” according to a report released Wednesday. The ...
In December 2011, Google awarded a total of US$11.5 million in grants to organizations to combat modern-day slavery. [31] Google donated $9.8 million to International Justice Mission to lead a coalition focusing on fighting slavery in India, in addition to running advocacy and education programs in the country, and mobilizing Americans. [31]
Target 8.7 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is to end modern slavery among children by 2025, and for all by 2030. This dream of the United Nations from 2015 is now becoming distant.
In 2015, the Fair Food Program received the Presidential Medal for Extraordinary Efforts in Combatting Modern-day Slavery from Secretary of State John Kerry at a White House ceremony. In 2017, the Harvard Business Review deemed the FFP one of “the most important social-impact success stories of the 21st Century,” alongside the anti ...