End Human Trafficking

Co-Creating Liberated Futures: What could a world of liberated systems look like if we built it together?

The Cost of Freedom (TCOF) Campaign is welcoming proposals for 2026 partnerships with local creatives, educators, youth leaders, Indigenous organizers, and community-based nonprofits. We believe liberation is a collective practice, and together we can design spaces that nurture imagination, and reformation.

Through workshops, art exhibits, and community gatherings, we will reimagine what collective freedom means in practice and begin sketching the blueprints for liberated systems in education and community life. This is an invitation to co-create new ways of learning, creating, socializing, and living—rooted in equity, care, and liberation.

Learn more: https://www.almaxmodeling.com/tcofcampaign

Support TCOF: https://www.bonfire.com/the-cost-of-freedom-campaign/

Happy Juneteenth!

Celebrating International Women’s Day Today March 8, 2023!

International Women’s Day focuses on celebrating the achievements of women, highlighting gender inequality, and bringing awareness to the injustice women and girls face, including human rights violations that prevent them from achieving successful futures. Did you know that in 2016, women and girls accounted for 71 percent of modern slavery victims? These are human rights violations experienced in countries around the world, disproportionally affecting women and girls.

The theme for International Women’s Day 2023 is DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality.

Digital health and information platforms can improve health outcomes for women and girls and enhance their autonomy and privacy – they enable informed health decision-making, improve access to health services, therapies and medicines, and increase awareness about women’s rights, including s*xual and reproductive health and rights.

Today, a persistent gender gap in digital access keeps women from unlocking technology’s full potential. Their underrepresentation in STEM education and careers remains a major barrier to their participation in tech design and governance. And the pervasive threat of online gender-based violence—coupled with a lack of legal recourse—too often forces them out of the digital spaces they do occupy.

Sources:
United Nations Women (unwomen.org)
World Health Organization (who.int)
International Organization for Migration (IOM)

Exploring 20 Common Myths About Human Trafficking!

MYTH #15: Victims of trafficking cannot rescue themselves. .

Every story is different but what survivors have in common is resilience. They come to the understanding that they want to leave the situation, and then fight to get out. Sometimes they get help from service providers, or anti trafficking organizations, but the concept of “rescuing” adult s*x trafficking victims is misleading and dangerous. Survivors rescue themselves.

MYTH #16: Prosecuting traffickers is the only way to stop human trafficking.

While prosecuting traffickers is an important step in combating human trafficking, we have to understand that human trafficking is the result of other inequities in our society and our economic system that make people vulnerable to the enticements of traffickers.

So While prosecuting traffickers and seeking justice for survivors is vital, it is not enough by itself to end trafficking. To reduce trafficking, we need to work collectively and holistically as a society to increase awareness, support, and services for vulnerable people and change socioeconomic disparities like homelessness, family violence, poverty, discrimination and etc. that make people vulnerable to the lure of traffickers.

Sources:
www.tacfs.org
www.stopht.com
www.bridgenorth.org
www.polarisproject.org
www.bridgehopenow.org
www.canadianwomen.org
www.humantraffickinghotline.org