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Day 16 – Human Rights Day – 5 Ways to Take Action
Day 16 – Human Rights Day – 5 Ways to Take Action

by Sally Irwin | Dec 8, 2020 | 16Days of Freedom, About Modern Slavery, News & Articles

Today is the United Nations Human Rights Day. At the Freedom Hub we believe this should be everyday but sadly the world is has many who exploit others for their own gain. The UN uses ‘Peace, dignity and equality on a healthy planet’ as a slogan. Because equality is a...

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Day 14 – How to Shop Ethically for Christmas
Day 14 – How to Shop Ethically for Christmas

by Sally Irwin | Dec 8, 2020 | 16Days of Freedom, Forced Labour, News & Articles

One of the biggest problems we face in trying to help women out of forced labour is knowing how to shop ethically. Shopping ethically supports the companies and factories that are treating women fairly and paying them properly. If those companies prosper, making a...

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Day 13 – Women Empowering Human Rights
Day 13 – Women Empowering Human Rights

by Sally Irwin | Dec 7, 2020 | 16Days of Freedom, News & Articles

Today is International Volunteers Day and it is through volunteering that we see the power of women to invoke human rights. Since 1948 the UN has been proclaiming the rights that every individual is entitled to regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, language,...

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Day 12 – Women caught in Fashion Faux Pas
Day 12 – Women caught in Fashion Faux Pas

by Sally Irwin | Dec 3, 2020 | 16Days of Freedom, Forced Labour, News & Articles, Slavery in Fashion

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...

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Day 11 – Partner to End Slavery
Day 11 – Partner to End Slavery

by Sally Irwin | Dec 3, 2020 | 16Days of Freedom, News & Articles

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...

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Day 10 – Free from Sex Trafficking in Australia
Day 10 – Free from Sex Trafficking in Australia

by Sally Irwin | Dec 3, 2020 | 16Days of Freedom, Ending Modern Slavery, News & Articles

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...

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Day 8 – International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
Day 8 – International Day for the Abolition of Slavery

by Sally Irwin | Nov 30, 2020 | 16Days of Freedom, Ending Modern Slavery, News & Articles

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...

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Day 6- What does Freedom mean to a Slavery Survivor?
Day 6- What does Freedom mean to a Slavery Survivor?

by Sally Irwin | Nov 27, 2020 | 16Days of Freedom, Ending Modern Slavery, News & Articles

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...

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Day 5- Freedom from Sexual Servitude
Day 5- Freedom from Sexual Servitude

by Sally Irwin | Nov 27, 2020 | 16Days of Freedom, Ending Modern Slavery, News & Articles

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...

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Day 4 – Australian Slavery Survivors Find Freedom
Day 4 – Australian Slavery Survivors Find Freedom

by Sally Irwin | Nov 27, 2020 | 16Days of Freedom, Ending Modern Slavery, News & Articles

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...

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