Day 12 – Women caught in Fashion Faux Pas
Women Unpaid, exploited and dismissed: Garment workers continue to be impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic The immense global impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic are yet to be fully assessed. But there’s no doubt of the devastation this unprecedented event has caused. For...
Day 11 – Partner to End Slavery
Partners are essential to ending Modern Slavery. The Freedom Hub mission is to end slavery in Australia, help victims recover and PARTNER in the fight to end global slavery. There are many ways that we partner to end slavery. At a high level, our founder sits on...
Day 10 – Free from Sex Trafficking in Australia
Sex Trafficking is not as common as forced labour and forced marriage in Australia, but it still happens. Here is a story from one of our survivors. - I am from Asia where I studied business, and saved up for a long time to further my studies in Australia – so one day...
Day 8 – International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
Today is International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, December 2 It is an interesting concept the "Abolition" of Slavery, given we still have slavery today. In days gone by slavery was the legal ownership of a person. So slavery, was condition in which one human...
Day 6- What does Freedom mean to a Slavery Survivor?
Defining Freedom can be difficult for anyone, but what does it mean for someone who has experienced no freedom? Someone who has been kept captive with no freedom of choice? So to find out, in the article we ask some of the survivors in our Freedom Hub Survivor...
Day 5- Freedom from Sexual Servitude
An Australian story of a women caught in Sexual Servitude* Note: Sexual servitude can often start as domestic violence or rape within marriage. It becomes modern slavery when the woman or girl has no freedom of movement, no phone, no bank account, no friends or is...
Day 4 – Australian Slavery Survivors Find Freedom
The Freedom Hub Survivor School helps slavery survivors find freedom. That is freedom from their past, freedom from their own feeling of shame, and freedom to chose a new life. Modern Slavery Happens here in Australia! The Global Slavery Index 2018 estimated that we...
Day 3 – Freedom From Forced Labour in Australia
This is a Survivors Story of Freedom from modern slavery in the area of forced labour * right here in Australia. I grew up in an area of Turkey and lost my parents in a war. My grandparents raised my siblings and me, but now they are old and can’t work. So when an...
Day 1 – Three Things All Women Need to Know Today
Calling all women... did you know .....? Violence against women and girls is one of the most widespread, persistent and devastating human rights violations in our world today. 1 in 3 women worldwide have experienced physical or sexual violence. Women and girls are...
Day 7 – Freedom from Forced Marriage
Being Forced to Marry Note: Forced marriage is against a girls will. It is different to 'arranged marriage' where they consent and know it is happening. Usually in forced marriage the girl is often tricked and doesn't know it is about to happen. My mother was...