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One of the most likely slave-caught products that we consume is seafood from Southeast Asia. Last week, President Obama closed an 80 year loophole in the Tariff Act of 1930. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has also imposed stricter regulations to improve how seafood is tracked from catch to market.

Read The New York Times article here.

The success is real and should be celebrated. But the Made In A Free World Community won’t stop until EVERY product we buy is protected from slavery: madeinafreeworld.com/action

There are an estimated 146,000 domestic workers in the United Arab Emirates. Sadly, research shows that a staggering percentage of them are exploited by their employers.

Read the full article here: http://bit.ly/1Rg2iCu

Standing in solidarity with our END IT coalition partners today. 

We believe tech can help end slavery. Will you join us?

It fears that thousands of them have been forced into sexual exploitation and slavery by criminal gangs.

SIGN A PETITION HERE: http://bit.ly/1PXonYQ

Umoja is a community of 48 women in the arid plains of northern Kenya. The word means ‘unity’ in Swahili.

READ Judi’s incredible life story here.

Slavery exists in every country in the world, in our own backyards. Stay vigilant, and if you suspect that someone may be a victim, don’t hesitate to contact the authorities.

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WATCH this video and ASK the hard questions the next time you buy jewelry.


This same willful ignorance of companies is also prevalent in consumers: unless ethical information is available at the point of purchase, it “feels better” to remain ignorant rather than seeking out the truth.

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REBLOG with your thoughts about whether businesses and consumers share this trait of “willful ignorance.”

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Of course, the government can’t protect us from buying slave-made goods if companies don’t know where or how to look for abuses. That’s why we’ve created FRDM®.

LEARN MORE about our business software platform at madeinafreeworld.com/business.


“If we know cocoa is being produced on plantations in West Africa using slave labor, and then being imported into the U.S., we still have to allow it in because the U.S. cannot produce enough cocoa to meet U.S. demand.” This will now change.

Read the article here.

REBLOG to celebrate this game changer in the fight against slavery in our everyday products!

Sold by his parents to become a suicide bomber. This is child slavery.

Read Adrian Gonzalez’s blog here.

1 in 4 companies cannot name a single step they have taken to comply with the recently passed Modern Slavery Act.

We can help. REQUEST A DEMO of our slavery risk platform at: madeinafreeworld.com/business.

Read it here.

If after two years a company pays all its fines and proves that it has remedied working conditions, it is removed from the list.

COMMENT about whether you think this is an effective way of dissuading supply chain abuses.

See more of the powerful images here.

Though child labor was greatly reduced by laws passed during the Great Depression, around 500,000 children still work in agriculture across America.


Create beautiful art and help make our food fair for all! Help support the movement for Fair Food by creating a poster that activists across the country can use. 

The award-winning documentary film Food Chains, about farm labor in America today, is inviting artists to interpret the movie poster in order to create striking images that this movement can use to propel this issue.

Join the fight by submitting a design here: http://bit.ly/1PH2Lg9


A statement from the company claimed that the Senate has attacked the company’s free-speech rights as a publisher.

Read it here.

REBLOG with your reactions.


“Human slavery in France is a little known reality [that also] encompasses domestic slavery, sweatshop workers, and minors who forced to work as beggars and thieves to help criminal organizations.”

Read it here.

New forced labor supply chain regulations are forcing companies to act. Read about it here.

BUSINESSES, WE CAN HELP! Learn more at: madeinafreeworld.com/business

“Soon after buying her, the fighter brought the teenage girl a round box containing four strips of pills, one of them colored red.”

Read it here.

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SlaveryFootprint.org gets another shout-out to learn about slavery in your stuff. Read it here.

25,248,043 people like you have learned about their Slavery Footprint in the past 4 years. Will you join them?

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To meet the demands of global markets and reduce costs, these factories have turned to millions of teenaged, mostly female, workers from impoverished communities.

Read the article here.

JOIN the movement to end slavery in our stuff at madeinafreeworld.com!


If we don’t end slavery in supply chains, a loopclose closed by President Obama could ban tablets from being sold in the US! So if you enjoy your clicks, shares, posts, and hearts, take a few seconds to SEND A LETTER FOR FREEDOM at madeinafreeworld.com/action


The common and complex web of “garment subcontracting” caught up with the snow and surf apparel giant. Unfortunately, consumers were once again in the dark.

Read it here.

It’s time to bring FRDM® to the world’s supply chains: madeinafreeworld.com/business.

Read the story here: http://bit.ly/1p5aAqy

For years, we’ve been telling the world that there is slavery in our stuff. Our software platform, FRDM®, helps any company identify their risk hotspots and take action. As consumers, we need your help to urge them to take this issue seriously.

SEND A LETTER FOR FRDM® NOW: madeinafreeworld.com/action.

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