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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. […]
On March 15, 2022, children aged 9 to 15 years of age were rescued from a toy factory in the Bawana Industrial Area in the north of Delhi in India. A total of 73 children — 38 girls and 35 boys — were rescued from a toy factory and polish manufacturing and fan manufacturing factories […]
April 16, 1995 Murder of Iqbal Masih, a former slave carpet weaver since the age of 5. He was a child activist after he escaped from slavery. He was the winner of the Reebok Prize.
Photograph of bonded child laborer who has been supported by one of the Society’s Raid and Rescue programs in India. October 25. Bonded Labour Day, also called Bonded Labour System Awareness Day.
October 13, 2023. Human traffickers are getting more sophisticated – using high tech methods such as mobile phones and social media accounts to target young girls in remote mountainous areas, mostly teen girls between 15-16 years old who are not well-educated, have limited social awareness and live in precarious circumstances. Most households in Lai Chau […]
October 20, 2023. 76th Anniversary of the Protocol amending the 1921 and 1933 Trafficking Conventions approved by the United Nations General Assembly on October 20, 1947. It amended the International Convention of 30 September 1921 for the Suppression of the Traffic in Women and Children and the International Convention of 11 October 1933 for the […]
Serbian police, with the support of Europol and law enforcement authorities from Austria, France and Germany, have smashed a criminal syndicate in Serbia. There were 8 victims: 6 minors between the age of 5 years and 17 years and two young women. One was Ukrainian and the rest were Serbians. The traffickers used what is […]
Palais de Nations, headquarters of the League of Nations October 11, 1933. International Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Women of Full Age 1933. It focused on two problems. First, the problem of the traffic in girls under age by traffickers who presented them as being over age by the use of false […]
October 10, 1832: Death of James Stephen (British abolitionist)
October 7, 1772. Anniversary of the death of John Woolman, a Quaker and early American abolitionist.
Photograph of young devadasi October 2, 2023. The president of the devadasi movement in the State of Karnataka, India, urged the State goverment to provide support for young devadasis. Her call concides with the release of the film ‘God’s Wives, Men’s Slaves’ depicting the plight of young devadasis. The Society’s secretary investigated the plight of […]
Source Dreamstime licence September 29, 2023. “160 million children—nearly one in 10 worldwide—were subjected to child labor in 2020. This marks an increase of 8 million since 2016, with nearly half of these children engaged in work that poses direct threats to their health, safety, and morals.” Source Bureau of International Labor Affairs of the […]