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Competition entries for Ending Global Slavery: Everyday Heroes Leading the Way

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Jul 18, 2008Paths of protection: prevention of sexual exploitation of children and teenagers in Brazilian highways through corporate mobiliz
Country : Brazil
Organization: RESPOSTA
Year the initative began (yyyy): 2003
Sector Focus: Business
Positioning in the Mosaic of solutions:
  • Main barrier addressed Invisibility of problem
  • Main insight addressed Increase community resilience

Desenvolver Boas Práticas de Proteção de crianças e adolesc contra a exploração e tráf de crianças e adolescentes p/ fins sexuais através da mobilização social do setor privado que atua no mercado de postos de combustíveis na malha viviária no Br.

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RESPOSTABrazil0
Jul 18, 2008Proyecto P.E.T.I.S.O.S. (Prevención y Erradicación de Trabajo Infantil S.O.S.)
Country : Argentina
Organization: Fundación Gente Nueva
Year the initative began (yyyy): 2004
Sector Focus: Civil society
Positioning in the Mosaic of solutions:
  • Main barrier addressed Vulnerability of targeted populations
  • Main insight addressed Mobilize peer groups and communities to raise awareness

Fuerte involucramiento de las familias en el proceso de sacar a sus hijos del basural.

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Fundación Gente NuevaArgentina2
Jul 18, 2008Justice Beyond Borders: Portable Justice for Global Workers
Country : United States
Organization: Global Workers Justice Alliance
Year the initative began (yyyy): 2005
Sector Focus: Civil society
Positioning in the Mosaic of solutions:
  • Main barrier addressed Invisibility of problem
  • Main insight addressed Expand legal access and frameworks

Portable justice—the right and ability of transnational migrant workers to access justice in the destination countries after they return to their home countries.

Global Workers Justice AllianceUnited States6
Jul 18, 2008A Business Solution to Fighting Slavery
Country : United States
Organization: The Emancipation Network
Year the initative began (yyyy): 2005
Sector Focus: Business
Positioning in the Mosaic of solutions:
  • Main barrier addressed Vulnerability of targeted populations
  • Main insight addressed Increase community resilience

TEN fights slavery with empowerment, 'slavery-proofing' survivors and high risk communities by giving them economic alternatives and education and using the Made By Survivors products to help build the abolition movement in the US.

The Emancipation NetworkUnited States20
Jul 18, 2008Freeing Nepali Girls From Indentured Servitude
Country : United States
Organization: Nepalese Youth Opportunity Foundation
Year the initative began (yyyy): 2000
Sector Focus: Civil society
Positioning in the Mosaic of solutions:
  • Main barrier addressed Cultural acceptance of enslavement
  • Main insight addressed Mobilize peer groups and communities to raise awareness

Provide a goat or piglet to families that do not sell their daughters into indentured servitude, sponsor the girls' education, and mobilize communities against servitude.

Nepalese Youth Opportunity FoundationUnited States2
Jul 18, 2008LEGAL LIBERATION: Freeing Slaves through the Law
Country : India
Organization: Volunteers for Social Justice
Year the initative began (yyyy): 1985
Sector Focus: Civil society
Positioning in the Mosaic of solutions:
  • Main barrier addressed Vulnerability of targeted populations
  • Main insight addressed Expand legal access and frameworks

To use the law to fight for the release and rehabilitation of India's 12 million slaves.

Volunteers for Social JusticeIndia6
Jul 18, 2008Empowering the travel industry to prevent child sex tourism. (TheCode.org)
Country : United States
Organization: TheCode (Code of Conduct for the Protection of Children from Sexual Exploitation in Travel&Tourism)
Year the initative began (yyyy): 1998
Sector Focus: Business
Positioning in the Mosaic of solutions:
  • Main barrier addressed Vulnerability of targeted populations
  • Main insight addressed Mobilize peer groups and communities to raise awareness

TheCode gives tourism industry an operational tool to prevent and combat child sex tourism and to protect children’s rights.

TheCode (Code of Conduct for the Protection of Children from Sexual Exploitation in Travel&Tourism)United States4
Jul 18, 2008for the dignity of women in domestic work
Country : India
Organization: national Domestic Workers' Movement
Year the initative began (yyyy): 1984
Sector Focus: Civil society
Positioning in the Mosaic of solutions:
  • Main barrier addressed Inadequate govt response/action
  • Main insight addressed Expand legal access and frameworks

To empower women in domestic work to uphold their rights as women and workers and be treated with dignity with due recognition of their service to the economy and development of the country.

national Domestic Workers' MovementIndia1
Jul 18, 2008Combating Child Labor through Fair Trade in West Africa
Country : United States
Organization: TransFair USA
Year the initative began (yyyy): 2002
Sector Focus: Business
Positioning in the Mosaic of solutions:
  • Main barrier addressed Invisibility of problem
  • Main insight addressed Expose slavery’s hidden role in commerce

TransFair USA prevents child slavery by enabling smallholder West African cocoa farmers to obtain higher prices for their products, and promoting greater supply chain transparency.

TransFair USAUnited States4
Jul 18, 2008Carpets for Communities - Empowering poor mothers to free their chilren through connecting them with market opportunities
Country : Cambodia
Organization: Carpets for Communities
Year the initative began (yyyy): 2005
Sector Focus: Business
Positioning in the Mosaic of solutions:
  • Main barrier addressed Vulnerability of targeted populations
  • Main insight addressed Increase community resilience

Instant intervention into child trafficking & labour by empowering mothers to earn a steady income from home & return their children to school, giving us time to work with the families in a participatory fashion towards exiting the cycle of poverty.

Carpets for CommunitiesCambodia8
Jul 18, 2008Empowering bonded labourers, landless agricultural workers, dalits and adivasis to eradicate bonded labour.
Country : India
Organization: Vimukti Trust
Year the initative began (yyyy): 1983
Sector Focus: Civil society
Positioning in the Mosaic of solutions:
  • Main barrier addressed Vulnerability of targeted populations
  • Main insight addressed Increase community resilience

Building up the agency of bonded labourers, landless agricultural workers, dalit and adivasi youth to take action against bonded labour.

Vimukti TrustIndia49
Jul 18, 2008Creative Partnerships against Human Trafficking
Country : Philippines
Organization: Visayan Forum Foundation, Inc.
Year the initative began (yyyy): 2007
Sector Focus: Other
Positioning in the Mosaic of solutions:
  • Main barrier addressed Profitability of slavery
  • Main insight addressed Expose slavery’s hidden role in commerce

The VF has created a multi-stakeholder partnership for the prevention of human trafficking.

Visayan Forum Foundation, Inc.Philippines3
Jul 18, 2008Weaving a Global Society Free of Child Labor
Country : United States
Organization: RugMark USA
Year the initative began (yyyy): 1996
Sector Focus: Business
Positioning in the Mosaic of solutions:
  • Main barrier addressed Profitability of slavery
  • Main insight addressed Expose slavery’s hidden role in commerce

RugMark's innovation is to remove the market demand for child-made goods and raise the financial cost of using illegal child labor in carpet manufacture.

RugMark USAUnited States5
Jul 18, 2008Digital Divide Data
Country : Cambodia
Organization: Digital Divide Data
Year the initative began (yyyy): 2001
Sector Focus:
Positioning in the Mosaic of solutions:
  • Main barrier addressed Vulnerability of targeted populations
  • Main insight addressed Increase community resilience

Digital Divide Data is an innovative, internationally acclaimed non-profit based in Cambodia and Laos that uses a strong business model to generate profits that we invest back in the growth and development of our staff.

Digital Divide DataCambodia0
Jul 14, 2008‘Mera Sahara….Lifeline for Children’
Country : India
Organization: Joint Women’s Programme
Year the initative began (yyyy): 2007
Sector Focus: Civil society
Positioning in the Mosaic of solutions:
  • Main barrier addressed Please select one
  • Main insight addressed Please select one

Increase in number of missing/trafficked children with no government intervention demands tangible community action. Systematic mechanisms are required to create Protective environment for development

Joint Women’s Programme India0
Jul 7, 2008Territorios Solidarios contra la Trata: Arte y Trata
Country : Peru
Organization: Asociación Cultural Teatrovivo
Year the initative began (yyyy): 2008
Sector Focus: Civil society
Positioning in the Mosaic of solutions:
  • Main barrier addressed Vulnerability of targeted populations
  • Main insight addressed Mobilize peer groups and communities to raise awareness

Cruzar agendas entre organizaciones y territorios de acción de la red latinoamericana de arte y transformación social para combate de trata.

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Asociación Cultural TeatrovivoPeru4
Jul 1, 2008Trama Project – Different organizations consortium to confront the Human Traffic.
Country : Brazil
Organization: Projeto Trama
Year the initative began (yyyy): 2004
Sector Focus: Civil society
Positioning in the Mosaic of solutions:
  • Main barrier addressed Vulnerability of targeted populations
  • Main insight addressed Mobilize peer groups and communities to raise awareness

Enfrentar o tráfico de pessoas através de ações planejadas e implementadas por consórcio de 4 organizações que já atuam em temas transversais, enriquecendo os laços, contatos e conhecimento já existente

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Projeto TramaBrazil1
Jun 30, 2008Empowering women and young girls with auto mechanic skills to create wealth as a source of self sustainable livelihood
Country : Nigeria
Organization: LADY MECHANIC INITIATIVE
Year the initative began (yyyy): 2004
Sector Focus: Other
Positioning in the Mosaic of solutions:
  • Main barrier addressed Vulnerability of targeted populations
  • Main insight addressed Increase community resilience

Investing in the female gender of Nigeria.

LADY MECHANIC INITIATIVENigeria8
Jun 30, 2008Giving Power to Victims of Human Trafficking through Advocacy, Counseling, Education and Skills Development
Country : South Africa
Organization: Sithabile Child & Youth Care Center
Year the initative began (yyyy): 2003
Sector Focus: Civil society
Positioning in the Mosaic of solutions:
  • Main barrier addressed Invisibility of problem
  • Main insight addressed Mobilize peer groups and communities to raise awareness

We assist young people who are trafficked to be contributing members of society by placing them in education (school, college or skills development) and training them to be activists who teach other young people about the human trafficking.

Sithabile Child & Youth Care CenterSouth Africa1
Jun 30, 2008Improving Coping Mechanisms and Self-Reliance of former child soldiers and supporting their reintegration
Country : Uganda
Organization: Friends of Orphans (FRO)
Year the initative began (yyyy): 1999
Sector Focus: Civil society
Positioning in the Mosaic of solutions:
  • Main barrier addressed Cultural acceptance of enslavement
  • Main insight addressed Increase community resilience

Friends of Orphans rehabilitation and vocational Program aims at empowering, rehabilitating and reintegrating former child soldiers, orphans and vulnerable community impacted by war and HIV/AIDS.

Friends of Orphans (FRO)Uganda2