U.S. Joins Global Battle On January 4, 2010, President Obama declared January as our nation’s Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention month. President Obama’s proclamation stated “Fighting modern slavery and human trafficking is a shared responsibility. This month, I urge all Americans to educate themselves about all forms of modern slavery and the signs and [...]
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U.S. Observes Anti-Slavery and Human Trafficking Month
Posted by Casey on January 6th, 2012
Posted in Human Trafficking 
Tags: Global Breakthrough, Human Trafficking, President Obama, resources, Slavery, Thailand, White House 
1 Comment »Closer Look: US Immigration and Slavery
Posted by Casey on December 14th, 2011
Global Breakthrough seeks to address concerns about slavery, or human trafficking, no matter where it’s taking place. And unbelievably to most of us, it’s happening here–in the United States. In 2005, Mariano Lucas Domingo, was an illegal immigrant looking for work in Immokalee, Florida. One day a man (Navarrete) offered him a job as well [...]
Posted in Human Trafficking Tags: bonded labor, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, debt, Global Breakthrough, immigants, Slavery, Tomatoland, US No Comments »Unbound Conference
Posted by Alicia on November 1st, 2011
This last month we had the incredible opportunity to take part in the annual UNBOUND conference held in Seattle. Watch the video below to find out more. Video by Global Breakthrough’s Visual Design Team.
Slave labor still lives right next door -A Collyn Eppel Blog
Posted by Alicia on October 23rd, 2011
You might think that the Emancipation Proclamation ended the argument for human beings to be enslaved in the United States, but it’s been going on in plain sight for years ever since. Human trafficking is a VERY profitable business, so profitable that many drug traffickers are switching over to human trafficking. Unlike drugs, humans are [...]
Posted in Human Trafficking Tags: CNN, Collyn Eppel, Global Breakthrough, Human Trafficking, Slave Labor, Slavery, Women 1 Comment »Strategizing Advocacy to Fight Human Trafficking
Posted by Casey on July 11th, 2011
As the worldwide issue of human trafficking trickles into our everyday vocabulary, organizations grapple with how to spread the word. Indeed, now more than ever, major NGO’s and non-profits are asking the question, “how do we bring this to light?” Erin Murphy from Seattle Against Slavery, an organization committed to the advocacy of domestic trafficking, [...]
Consumers against slavery
Posted by Alicia on April 4th, 2011
In the last 20-30 years, our world has experienced an explosion in economic globalization. Unfortunately, as our contact with people and goods of other countries has increased, so too have our ties to slavery strengthened. In fact, slavery contributes roughly 13 billion dollars to the world’s economy directly. “In slavery today we can see that [...]
Posted in Human Trafficking Tags: Buying power, Causes, Consumers, David Batstone, Economy, Fair Trade, Human Trafficking, Not4Sale, Slavery No Comments »
