#modern slavery
This is the link from the video. It’s important that we try to take action. Don’t buy chocolate that may be connected with slavery. In the link there’s also information about slavery free chocolate.
On chocolate, coffee, tea, other products coming from the global south: if you can afford it, buy only products with some kind of a certificate that demonstrates the product has been ethically produced (and this has been verified by an outside agency), such as the Fairtrade,UTZorRainforest Alliancecertificate.
But also beware that some producers have made up their own certificates, with no outside oversight. These essentially fake certificates include Cocoa Life, the certificate invented by Mondelez – one of the companies listed behind the link for using slave labour, who stopped using Rainforest Alliance certified cocoa and switched to their own certificate instead.
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
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Can you guess which quote is from a victim, an advocate, and an exploiter of girls in Los Angeles?
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Standing in solidarity with our END IT coalition partners today.
We believe tech can help end slavery. Will you join us?
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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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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.
Read the whole article here.
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®.
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“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.
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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.
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Though child labor was greatly reduced by laws passed during the Great Depression, around 500,000 children still work in agriculture across America.
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.”
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New forced labor supply chain regulations are forcing companies to act. Read about it here.
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REBLOG with your thoughts.
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“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.
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?
WATCH this shocking feature by Fortune Magazine here.
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.
Read this feature from Germany! Enden-Sklaverei! Click here.
What do you think, funny or foul?
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.
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How would we protect ourselves if sunscreen was banned?! Burned!
Enjoy the show!
On a somber note to end Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month, let’s remember that the fight for justice in our communities hasn’t finished just because some of us fit the model minority stereotype. You’ve probably read the story about Eudocia Tomas Pulido, a Filipino woman who spent 56 years of her life in slavery for the Asuncion-Tizon Family, who called her Lola. Her story has brought out outrage and tears from an international audience. We shouldn’t forget Nanay Eudocia’s life because hers is the story of so many.
You might have thought her story to be an anomaly. But how many of you know of Filipinos, especially women, getting employed as caregivers and not getting paid and put in inadequate living quarters? Or being forced into an arranged marriage to secure a life abroad for her and her family? Or on the other side of matters, how many of you know of Filipinos who own those carehomes or have encouraged or arranged those marriages? How many of you know of Filipino landowners with exploited tenant farmers who are kept in poverty? How many of you have family who hit their katulong?
When we take these experiences into account, we realize that slavery isn’t far off from any one of us. We have family that are both oppressors and the oppressed.
You might get told by the “casual” racists that slavery is in the past, so there’s no use in getting upset about it now. But the righteous anger you feel when coming across stories like Nanay Eudocia’s is a sign that your sense of compassion and justice is working. It’s telling you to take action against systems of oppression and exploitation, including cultural attitudes that excuse acts of physical and economic violence. Because the effects of slavery aren’t just in the past. The victims of slavery and their descendants exist now. And now is when we should take action.
Mafia Madness: Swimming With The Fishes
here’s the first installment of @amonthofwhump’s Mafia Madness! I really hope to complete all of the prompts, but I’m not sure if I will able to since my senior trip this week. nonetheless, this series will be the prequel to my original story, The Devil’s Playground, and will include some characters from it. this first one is about Beth’s (from the first few chapters of my masterlist/Harper’s best friend and roommate) and Nate’s (character I haven’t introduced yet, but another whumpee of Dark) parents, and Ida’s father (the main boss of the Jaguars, the gang Dark works for). hope you all enjoy!
this prompt barely matches with the actual storyTaglist:@tropes-for-my-md-daydreams,@whumptakesthecake,@all-whumped-out,@distinctlywhumpthing,@painsandconfusion
CW: child abuse, modern slavery, minor whumpees (16 and 17 y.o.), degradation, implied torture, mention of rape, death threats, waterboarding, shoe kissing, defiant whumpee
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The silk covered hand lifted up to the young girl’s face, brushing away a strand of her platinum blonde hair and tucking it behind her ear. She saw herself in the mirror and smiled, admiring her carefully constructed face. If her mother was here, she would say the same thing she always said; “You look liked me before the wrinkles.” Then her father would make a comment saying she always had wrinkles, or something or other.
Maybe that’s why their marriage never worked out.
Not one to dwell on the past, the girl got up from her chair in front of her vanity and threw on the fur coat hanging on the wall. It was from the skin of a blank panther, expensive, but can help her remain undetected on her date.
A rock then bounced off her window, making the young girl turn around. Speak of the devil.
Once she opened up the latch, sure enough, the young slave boy whom her father owned was waiting for her down below. The boy waved brightly, making the girl return the favor before she went back inside and grabbed the chest underneath her bed. Inside, there was a bundle of woven rope with a latch on one end, which she attached to the wall next to her. Carefully, as to not fall three stories down and die, the young girl made her way down the mansion.
“Ida,” the young boy breathed once she got done, running up to hug her.
“Harold,” she whispered, a smile on her face.
“You look beautiful,” he said as he grabbed her hand, and the two began running across the courtyard.
“Thank you, where are we going?” Ida asked, looking behind her in case anyone could see them and alert her father.
Harold led her behind the large pool house, to the gazebo located about two hundred feet away from it. The location was perfect, it was hidden behind some large trees and hedges, and already far enough from the mansion’s view.
