March 19, 2025, Online Event The conversation around sex trafficking and modern slavery has never been more urgent. With legislative [...]
Category: Law & Policy
My hope for 2025 is a profound shift in how the world views migration
Today, on International Migrants Day, I fear that the pervasive characterization of migration as a “legitimate concern” is driving both [...]
“Social cleansing” at the Paris Olympics
Freedom United hosted a live discussion event on the Paris Olympics and trafficking. Watch it now! The 2024 Olympic Games have begun [...]
Freedom United invites you to an event on how migration politics are killing people and exposing them to human trafficking
This event is now available to watch here. Freedom United is hosting an online webinar, Migration Politics that Kill: How governments [...]
Freedom United exposes U.S. regression on child exploitation
My Freedom Day should be everyone’s, every day. Except we’re facing unprecedented rollbacks in labor laws across the U.S. [...]
We will never stop fighting for sex workers’ rights
As we observe International Sex Workers’ Rights Day, news from California gives us pause to reflect. California, once hailed as a [...]
The U.K. Illegal Migration Act promotes trafficking and is inhumane – full stop.
October 18th is Anti-Slavery Day, a day marked to symbolize the importance of raising awareness and the need to eradicate all forms of [...]
Progress in the E.U. for laws that put people and planet before profit
By Joanna Ewart-James. The European Parliament approved a ground-breaking draft law on June 1, that would call on large [...]
E.U. Due Diligence: We’re running out of time, but this could be a game changer
Photo credit: Philip Reynaers / Photonews / Justice is Everybody’s Business European leaders are deciding on game-changing rules to [...]
Open Letter to CBP on Trade Data Transparency
This week, the news broke that a group of major U.S. businesses, including Walmart, General Motors and Intel, as part of the Commercial [...]
EU: Tip the scales to put people and the planet before profits
Image credit: Philip Reynaers / Photonews / Justice is Everybody’s Business Time is up for companies profiting from modern slavery and [...]
A non-carceral approach to trafficking: Unpacking California’s Safer Streets for All Act
By Jamison Liang, Freedom United and Leigh LaChapelle, Cast The Safer Streets for All Act was signed into law on July 1, 2022 and will [...]