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The Senate voted 96-0 to hold Backpage.com in civil contempt after it didn't explain how it combats sex trafficking in ads on the adult section of its website.

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

Read it here.

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France's National Commission for Human Rights is urging the country to take modern slavery more seriously.

"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.

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“[Consumers] want answers to how much brands know about slavery within their businesses and what they are doing to combat it.”

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

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We live in a world where labor from 10-year-olds in Malawi and Zimbabwe creates 19-year-old billionaires on the other side of the planet.

Read in the story here and REBLOG with your thoughts.

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Would you sleep in a former slave's shack to help preserve a dark side of our nation's history?

REBLOG with your thoughts.

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5 Q&As with the Center for Data Innovation about how we're bringing freedom to global supply chains.

Read it here.

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To Maintain Supply of Sex Slaves, ISIS Pushes Birth Control

"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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Could there be slavery in my: soccer ball, smartphone, makeup? Yes. Yes. Yes.

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

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A throwback to 2012 SXSW when we won a belt buckle for activism 😎

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

slaveryfootprint.org

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The $100 billion chocolate industry has been vowing to fix it's labor problem for 15 years... but child labor has actually gone up.

WATCH this shocking feature by Fortune Magazine here.

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For the past 30 years, adults have been replaced by children in the dangerous textile factories of India. You may be wearing one of their products right now.

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!

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Thank you Global Citizen for inspiring more people to discover: "How many slaves work for me?"

Read Global Citizen’s blog post here and discover your Slavery Footprint here.

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Did you know the tablet or phone you’re reading this on has 10 parts likely sourced with slave labor… in its circuit board alone?! (via FRDM®)

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. 

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Happy International Women's Day to the brave women around the world that demand freedom for themselves and their communities every day.

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Our favorite part of running SlaveryFootprint.org (besides over 25 million people visiting the site), is Google translating articles about it from all over the world.

Read this feature from Germany! Enden-Sklaverei! Click here.

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Did you catch Chris Rock's joke about child labor at the Academy Awards?

What do you think, funny or foul?

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Rip Curl parkas "Made In China." Well, actually, North Korea.

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.