Justice Links
Below is a list of websites that contain incredible amounts of information regaurding modern day slavery and global injustice (plus most of them look really cool too).
Organizations
International Justice Mission: International human rights organization that is on the front lines of fighting oppression
www.ijm.org
Love 146: They work to fight sex trafficking in SE Asia
www.love146.org
Not For Sale: A campaign to get ordinary people involved in the fight to end slavery
http://www.notforsalecampaign.org/Default.aspx
Not For Sale Links: A list of organizations that Not For Sale Supports
http://www.notforsalecampaign.org/Default.aspx
Free the Slaves: An organization that does a lot of research on modern day slavery, and supports many grassroots movements to end slavery
http://freetheslaves.net/
Free the Slaves Links: An extensive list of links to organizations that fight modern day slavery
http://freetheslaves.net/resources/links/
LC2LC: Zach Hunter’s (founder of Loose Chains to Loosen Chains) myspace www.myspace.com/lc2lc
Salvation Army’s Human Trafficking Page: This has all kinds of basic educational info about human trafficking and what can be done about it.
http://www.salvationarmyusa.org/usn/www_usn.nsf/vw-dynamic-arrays/85256DDC007274DF85256DB4005DA3B7
Florida Coalition Against Human Trafficking: They work to: To improve and provide outreach and services to victims of Human Trafficking throughout the State of Florida; by developing support programs, networking, coalition building, training, service delivery, and referrals to victims in need.
http://www.stophumantrafficking.org/
State Department: Our government’s office to deal with trafficking
http://www.state.gov/g/tip/
Invisible Children: A group that works with children who are effected by the war in Northern Uganda
http://www.invisiblechildren.com/theMovie/
Amazing Grace Resources: Downloads to go along with the movie Amazing Grace
http://www.amazinggracemovie.com/downloads.php
Amazing Change Campaign: A campaign that’s all about what the individual can do to bring an end to modern day slavery
http://www.theamazingchange.com/
Hagar: An aftercare program for those freed from slavery
http://www.hagarinternational.org/
The Home Foundations: Natalie Grant’s campaign to fight sexual exploitations domestically and abroad
http://thehomefoundation.net/about_us.htm
Conscientious Shopping Links
Here are some awesome links that have lots of stuff that you can buy without making someone else your slave. It’s amazing how much there is out there to buy that’s fair-trade.
http://store.gxonlinestore.org/index.html - Global Exchange’s online store with tons of stuff from coffee to chocolate to clothing. Plus all the prices are pretty reasonable.
http://shopping.netsuite.com/s.nl/c.625162/sc.2/.f – Emancipation Network’s catalog. It has all kinds of beautiful bags, clothing, cards, and even soccer balls. All the products are made by either survivors of human trafficking or in prevention centers. Their organization website is: www.madebysurvivors.com. This also links to their store.
http://corpwatch.org/ - Info on individual corporations and how they measure on the justice scale.
http://www.iccr.org/ - (from website) For thirty-five years the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) has been a leader of the corporate social responsibility movement. ICCR's membership is an association of 275 faith- based institutional investors, including national denominations, religious communities, pension funds, foundations, hospital corporations, economic development funds, asset management companies, colleges, and unions. ICCR and its members press companies to be socially and environmentally responsible. Each year ICCR- member religious institutional investors sponsor over 200 shareholder resolutions on major social and environmental issues.
http://Hrw.org/ - An organization that investigates human right violations and makes the public aware of them.
http://www.coopamerica.org/pubs/greenpages/results.cfm?category=A2 - It's the fair trade section of the green pages (like the yellow pages only way way cooler). It lists 178 companies that sell fair trade.
http://www.birchclothing.com/merch.asp - This one is all of the companies birch, a fair trade brand, sells. It has a ton of great links
http://www.tomsshoes.com/ - Buy a pair of shoes from here and not only do you get a pair, but so does a kid in South Africa.
Video/Film
A Poster Child For modern day Slavery: A video clip on slavery in relation to poverty
http://media.worldvision.org/donate/Human_Slavery/index.html?lid=interactive_photo&lpos=main
Trafficking Photo Gallery: First hand pictures that are testament to the reality of modern day slavery
http://www.childtrafficking.com/Content/Gallery/Browse/?CID=e4da3b7fbbce2345d7772b0674a318d5|56
Films: The following are links to websites that sell documentaries about modern day slavery
http://www.redlightchildren.org/films.php
https://secure.notforsalecampaign.org/index.php/cPath/30?osCsid=a621f38ad814891dbc53752be39f01d1
http://freetheslaves.net/store/
http://www.cargoinnocencelost.com/
Urbana: An IJM executive talking to college students about her work (the 5th one down)
http://www.urbana.org/u2006.session.info.cfm?session=5
News Piece: NBC piece on sexual exploitation in Cambodia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OZjJUpHv6Y
Blogs and Stories
Blog Spot: Blogs about human trafficking
http://www.stophumanslavery.blogspot.com/
Stories: Stories of people who were freed from slavery (use menu on the left to get to different stories):
http://www.ijm.org/NETCOMMUNITY/Page.aspx?&pid=309&srcid=228
Foreign Policy Assisiation Children Blog- www.children.foreignpolicyblogs.com