Campaigns

Buying chocolate Easter eggs? Were they produced by cocoa plantation slaves in West Africa?

  Cocoa is the essential ingredient for making chocolate Easter eggs.  A significant proportion of the world production of cocoa is grown and harvested on plantations by African slaves. These slaves are on cocoa plantations in remote rural areas in West Africa.  Some of the chocolate Easter eggs which we buy is made using slave […]

Ukraine trafficking

The Society has reports of women and children fleeing the hostilities in Ukraine being trapped into servitude. Currently, the major problem is the number of women and children laboring in the fields. Another area of concern are reports of women and girls being traffcked by criminal syndicates into houses of ill repute. Men, acting as […]

Buying chocolate Easter eggs? Were they produced by cocoa plantation slaves in West Africa?

Cocoa is the essential ingredient for making chocolate Easter eggs.  A significant proportion of the world production of cocoa is grown and harvested on plantations by African slaves. These slaves are on cocoa plantations in remote rural areas in West Africa.  Some of the chocolate Easter eggs which we buy is made using slave cocoa.  […]

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Raids/Rescues

Children rescued from construction side in India

For the second time in a month, boys have been rescued from a construction site in Trichy.  Eight boys aged 15-16 were rescued.  Six were from Jharkhand, one from West Bengal and another from Tamil Nadu.  The rescue involved our program partners in India, the Bachpan Bachao Andolan.  The boys were forced to work in unsafe […]

Boys rescued in raids in India

Four boys — one as young as 12 — were rescued by raids were conducted in commercial establishments in the State of Tamil Nadu in India. The 12-year-old worked in a bakery, a 15-year-old boy in a gas station, and the two 16-year olds in motor mechanic shop.  The raids occurred on September 22, 24, […]

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News

Ooctober 7, 2026 Anniversary death of John Woolman (early American abolitionist)

    October 7, 2026: Anniversary of the death of John Woolman (early American abolitionist) October 7, 1772.  He was a member of the Religious Society of Friends.  He travelled around the eastern United Colonies of America advocating for the freedom of slaves.  He campaigned against cruelty to animals and refused to wear dyed clothes […]

August 23, 2026. Journée internationale du souvenir de la traite négrière

    August 23, 2026.  Journée internationale du souvenir de la traite négrière et de son abolition (International Day for Remembrance of Slave Trade and Its Abolition).  It commemorates the date on August 23, 1791 when the uprising against slavery in French colony of Saint Domingue (now Haiti) began.  The date was designated by UNESCO. […]

August 28, 2026: Anniversary Abolition Act 1833 receives the Royal Assent

    August 28, 2026:Anniversary Abolition Act 1833 abolishing slavery throughout the British Empire receives the Royal Assent August 28, 1833  

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