FreedomUnited.org

Wednesday July 8, 2020

New U.S. asylum rules endanger victims of slavery

Jamison Liang

On June 15, 2020 the Trump administration proposed sweeping new rules that would severely restrict the ability of refugees to gain asylum in the United States. Freedom United is the world’s largest community dedicated to ending human trafficking & modern slavery. We mobilize a united community to create power advocating for change by making the public stakeholders in the ending modern slavery. We are gravely concerned by these changes, especially as they pertain to forced recruitment of child soldiers – a form of modern slavery. Rather than exclude child soldiers who were forcibly

Activists

Wednesday July 8, 2020

Jayson’s story

Basahin sa Tagalog dito Campaign Summary: Thousands of temporary workers are being trafficked into forced labor in California under threat of violence, deportation, and harm to their families. The vast majority of temporary workers are recruited via third-party foreign labor contractors, some of whom act neither lawfully nor ethically. That is why we are working with the Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking and calling on the California State Legislature to support legislation that would help protect temporary workers from modern slavery. My name is Jayson. While I was

Forced Labor

Wednesday July 8, 2020

World Day for International Justice

On World Day for International Justice, the Freedom United community is seeking justice for victims and survivors of all forms of modern slavery. Receiving compensation helps victims on their road to recovery and helps prevent re-victimization. Any person who has been a victim of modern slavery has a right to compensation. In spite of this internationally recognized right, many people around the world receive compensation that is not in line with damages that have actually been suffered, or they do not receive compensation at all. Around the world, millions of modern slavery

Activists

Thursday June 25, 2020

What happened to me should never happen to anyone else

Campaign Summary: Thousands of temporary workers are being trafficked into forced labor in California under threat of violence, deportation, and harm to their families. The vast majority of temporary workers are recruited via third-party foreign labor contractors, some of whom act neither lawfully nor ethically. That is why we are working with the Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking and calling on the California State Legislature to support legislation that would help protect temporary workers from modern slavery. I came to the United States with the promise of a good job. In the

Other slavery

Tuesday June 2, 2020

Live through us George Floyd

Joanna Ewart-James

Our Executive Director, Joanna Ewart-James, comments on the murder of George Floyd. The murder of George Floyd in police custody exposes a total failure in the principle of equality - that for all lives to matter Black lives must matter. His life cannot have been valued by those in the position of power whilst his breath was being taken away. The many others who have died at the hands of police in the U.S., without legitimate defense, share with George their racial identity – Black. The circumstances can only be explained by deep-seated racism – actions suggesting Black lives don’t

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