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August 29th, 2024 - The Freedom Story has a team whose strength lies in the ability to bring together diverse individuals toward a common goal. With team members scattered across the globe, coordination can be tricky. Listen to learn more.
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August 16th, 2024 - With summer drawing toward a close, it’s an ideal time to check in and share a snapshot of some of the great progress that our generous donor community has made possible so far this year! We're sharing some of the highlights here. Listen to learn more.
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August 10th, 2024 - In July, we proudly co-hosted the Asia Region Anti-Trafficking Conference in Bali, Indonesia, bringing together anti-trafficking professionals from across the region to discuss the latest developments and insights in the field. Alongside our partners at Chab Dai, Dark Bali, The Whispering Willow, and Ashray, our goal was to develop multi-sector learning and partnerships to improve responses human trafficking and slavery in Asia, provide updates on trends in the past 3-5 years, to learn best practices from each other, and identify potential avenues for collaborative action. Listen to learn more.
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July 24th, 2024 - In late June, the U.S. State Department released its annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report, which plays a major role in analyzing the global state of human trafficking, ranking 188 countries’ efforts to combat trafficking, and setting the agenda for future policies. We've highlighted some key takeaways that we think are of highest interest for you. Listen to learn more.
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July 6th, 2024 - Earlier this month, The Freedom Story collaborated with local government agencies and fellow anti-trafficking organizations to host a special event called “Chiang Rai Awakening,” a fun gathering in the city dedicated to raising public awareness about the cyber threats that lead to human trafficking. An estimated 500+ people attended, and the event was really positively received. Listen to learn more.
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June 14th, 2024 - Do you remember writing letters home from camp? Camp is such a special experience and it’s so meaningful for kids to have a chance to share about how it impacted them. Your support for our students to join camp activities is making a difference and we’re so excited to share our students’ reflections with you. Please consider the following messages as our care packages to you from our campers! Listen to learn more.
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May 31st, 2024 - Do you have any special memories of high school graduation? It's a major milestone for most kids. But for kids who are at risk of being trafficked for sexual exploitation, it means even more -- the successfully safe transfer from a childhood of vulnerability into a more prosperous and free adulthood. Listen to learn more.
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May 23rd, 2024 - Predators are finding new ways to engage youth in harm online. Recent cases are showing how critical it is to inform kids about how they might be targeted, how dangerous it is to share imagery even with people they trust and to emphasize how important it is to not be ashamed to seek help if something goes wrong. Listen to learn more.
Article sources:
The Guardian, "It can happen to any child"
The Guardian, "Fear, shame, and hopelessness: how young men are blackmailed online"
The Washington Post, "On popular online platforms, predatory groups coerce children..."
New York Times, "A Marketplace of Girl Influencers Managed by Moms"
Washington Post, "How to keep your kids safe online without taking away their phones"
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May 12th, 2024 - Happy Mother’s Day to everyone who plays a maternal role in someone’s life – and to the lucky people who love and are loved by them!
This Mother’s Day, we want to tell you a story about an incredible mother. This mother, Michu*, not only survived an unbelievably dark time in her life, she powered through to ensure she and her children thrive.
Here’s her story.
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April 19th, 2024 - Enriching activities are essential to the wellbeing of at-risk children, building children’s resilience and protecting them from abuse and exploitation, including child sex trafficking. Let us introduce you to Mina, one of our scholarship students, so you can hear about the impact of these activities on her life and outlook. Listen to learn more.
We have campaign now to fund 200 at-risk kids' participation in our spring camps. If you want to be a part of this initiative, click here to help out.
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April 4th, 2024 - We have exciting news! We are launching a campaign to fund 200 at-risk kids' participation in our spring camps. If you want to be a part of this initiative, click here to help out. We'll tell you all about it in this week's episode. Listen to learn more.
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March 22nd, 2024 - The children most vulnerable to exploitation are vulnerable for complex reasons: poverty, social isolation, lack of rights, and education, just to name a few. Prevention entails a likewise complex response: including enriching activities. Offering kids opportunities for growth, leadership skills, and communication skills helps heal emotional scars and protect them from exploiters who try to use those scars against them. Listen to learn more.
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March 8th, 2024 - When Saithan’s father was arrested, it upended her entire life. Without him, she and her mother were, as she put it, “living hand to mouth. It was a very difficult time.” Today is International Women's Day, and the theme is "Inspiring Inclusion." Listen to about how this relates to Saithan's story – and to keeping her protected from trafficking.
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Feb. 23rd, 2024 - We'll be releasing our 2023 Impact Report soon! Here's a teaser of some of the highlights! Listen to learn about our progress in preventing child trafficking.
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Feb. 9th, 2024 - This week, we’re sharing a round-up of some recent news related to human and child trafficking, at home and around the globe. Listen to hear the latest.
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Show notes:
Here are all the articles mentioned in this episode.
Tech in Asia UN News
Article from CDO
Adding forced marriage etc to EU law Council of the EU Press Release
Strengthening bans on products made with forced labor Council of Europe Press Release
Bipartisan House bill CNN/MSN
Bipartisan Senate bill WALB News, Sen. Ossoff’s Office Jan 30 Press Release, Sen. Ossoff’s Office Dec. 15 Press Release
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Jan. 26th, 2024 - We’re excited for what 2024 can bring, and we’d love to share our vision for child trafficking prevention this year. In this week’s podcast episode, we’re sharing a statement from our CEO Lucy McCray about her perspective and goals. Listen to learn more.
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Jan. 11th, 2024 - Welcome to a new year! We’re kicking it off with a celebration of Human Trafficking Awareness Day -- and some thoughts on how to think bigger about combating trafficking. Listen to learn more.
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Dec. 26th, 2023 - Cat was our first scholarship student, and as such, has had a front-row seat to the growth of The Freedom Story and the impact of prevention in her life and in her community. Listen to hear Cat's perspective.
As of this writing, we are around 75% of the way to our goal, with only a handful of days left to hit our target. We could really use your help to ensure our prevention programs continue with strength in 2024 and that we're able to support 330 newly identified at-risk children. Can you help us reach $100K to protect them through 2024?
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Dec. 19th, 2023 - Rochana's parents didn’t see the value of education; what they could see, however, was what kind of money many other girls in their village were making in the sex industry. Even as a child, though, Rochana wanted something different. Listen to hear Rochana's story.
Can you help us reach $100K to protect at-risk children like Rochana through 2024?
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Dec. 12th, 2023 - Kaew's family struggled to find stability. The pull of the sex industry was a strong and constant presence. From a young age, she wanted to help her mother, but her world did not promote her safety. Listen to hear Kaew's story.
Can you help us reach $100K to protect at-risk children like Kaew through 2024?
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Dec. 5th, 2023 - In celebration of our 15th anniversary, we’re sharing stories about students who have graduated from our child trafficking prevention programs. These students were identified as being at risk of trafficking and exploitation and, with the help of scholarships and mentorship, were able to turn their path from one of risk to one of resilience. This is what successful prevention looks like. Listen to hear Saeng's story.
Click here to help us reach $100K to protect at-risk children like Saeng through 2024.
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Nov. 23rd, 2023 - Fifteen years of freedom, and there is so much to be thankful for! Looking back over the past decade and a half, we feel immense gratitude to everyone who has joined the journey to protect vulnerable children. Listen to learn more.
Upcoming dates to know:
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Join us on Giving Tuesday (Nov 28th) and help spread the word!
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Keep an eye on this space for more student stories to come, from the end of November through the end of 2023!
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Nov. 10th, 2023 - When we started planning our 15th-anniversary celebration, we didn’t anticipate feeling compelled to share a message like this. Events in recent weeks have prompted us to want to share why we’re deliberately choosing celebration, even in the face of darkness. Listen to learn more.
Upcoming dates to know:
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Join our 15th anniversary celebration on Nov. 16th
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Join us on Giving Tuesday (Nov 28th) and help spread the word!
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Keep an eye on this space for more student stories to come, from the end of November through the end of 2023!
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Oct. 27th, 2023 - When one of our founders, Rachel Sparks, first met a young girl at risk named Cat and felt compelled to offer a scholarship to help keep her in school, it was hardly imaginable that her heartfelt impulse would ignite something as large as The Freedom Story has become. Looking back over the past 15 years, we have grown tremendously and are proud to say that the seeds planted so many years ago have born fruit. Listen to learn more.
Join us to celebrate at our 15th Anniversary party, online on Nov. 16th at 6pm PST! RSVP by Nov. 7 to get a ticket with a fancy party box - or you can join without a party box for free! Event details here.
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Oct. 16th, 2023 - When Somying’s father was incarcerated for a drug-related crime, the duty to help her family manage daily life fell upon Somying. Her mother suffered from a heart condition, which meant that, from the age of 5 or 6, Somying helped her mother cook, take care of the home, and watch after her wayward younger sister.
You'll get a chance to meet Somying at our 15th Anniversary celebration! This is her story. Listen to learn more.
Join us at our 15th Anniversary party, online on Nov. 16th at 6pm PST! RSVP by Nov. 7 to get a ticket with a fancy party box - or you can join without a party box for free! Event details here.
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Sept. 28th, 2023 - It is essential to strengthen communities so that the environment around children does not allow for opportunities for their exploitation. One way we’re doing this is through village health care volunteers. Listen to learn more.
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Sept. 14th, 2023 - You might think of statelessness as only happening to refugees or people who are politically exiled from their home country. But there are other ways it can happen, too. Here's how it happened in the communities where we work – and what we're doing about it. Listen to learn more.
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August 31st, 2023 - Are you a parent of pre-teens or teens? Do you track their social media use or talk to them about safety online? It's an overwhelming task -- even more so if you're a non-native speaker who never learned to read or write. Here's how we're helping parents who face that scenario, so that all children are better protected from online predators. Listen to learn more.
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August 17th, 2023 - Given the resurgence of interest in and newcomers to the movement to end child trafficking, a refresher on the victim-centered approach is apropos – it provides a guideline for engaging in rescue and intervention safely and ethically, to prevent further harm or trauma. Listen to learn more.
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August 3rd, 2023 - The following is a joint statement from anti-trafficking organizations in response to the film, “Sound of Freedom.” The conversation was originally hosted by Freedom Business Alliance, and the joint statement was first published by Lauren Pinkston on Medium. Listen to learn more.
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Links:
Original Joint Statement
Freedom Business Alliance
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July 24th, 2023 - The Freedom Story had the pleasure of co-hosting the Asia Region Anti-Trafficking Conference in Bali, Indonesia, pulling together professionals from across Asia to discuss the latest developments in the fight to combat human trafficking and other forms of similar exploitation, from forced labor to child online sexual exploitation. One takeaway stood out in several panel discussions across the 3-day conference: we’re seeing a rise in the number of boys and men being trafficked. Listen to learn more.
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July 6th, 2023 - In the last podcast episode, we shared about the US State Department’s latest Trafficking in Persons Report. If you missed it, be sure to check it out to get the key takeaways from the report in general. Today, we’re going to take a closer look at the key takeaways from the TIP Report’s Thailand profile. Listen to learn more.
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June 23rd, 2023 - The U.S. State Department has recently released its annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report – a key instrument used globally to assess the state of anti-trafficking responses.
This year's TIP Report highlights the rise of trafficking to online scam centers as an emerging threat. As Ambassador-at-Large Cindy Dyer, wrote, “Cyber scams —from fake dating profiles to illegal gambling operations—are increasingly perpetuated through forced criminality. Transnational organized criminal groups are exploiting the vulnerabilities laid bare by the COVID-19 pandemic, from social isolation to increased presence online, to coerce workers from around the world to conduct those scams, while also defrauding untold more.”
Want to know more about the state of trafficking in the world today? This week's podcast episode delves into the key takeaways from the report. Listen to learn more.
To read about how our work dovetails with the concerns highlighted in the TIP Report, we encourage you to review our blog. Here’s a sample of what we’ve written about how we invest in partnerships, an interview with a survivor leader, how climate change impacts us where we work, why we’ve always worked with boys, and information about the online scam centers.
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June 9th, 2023 - Great news, friends! We’ve recently released our Impact Report showing our results for 2022. Listen to learn more.
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May 25th, 2023 - Traffickers are savvy. They evolve with changes in technology and the opportunities that brings them. Increasingly, we’re witnessing a new threat: trafficking to online scam centers. Listen to learn more.
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May 11th, 2023 - Thirty-seven of our students have graduated from their current course of study! They've completed another level of education, safe from harm, adding yet another layer of protection from exploitation. This is what success in child trafficking prevention looks like. Listen to learn more.
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April 27th, 2023 - When you support prevention work with The Freedom Story, you're supporting initiatives and programs that work both deeply with at-risk individuals and broadly across communities to spread the power of prevention. We want to give you an idea of what exactly your dollars go toward. Listen to learn more.
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April 17th, 2023 - Yindee is from an area where drug and alcohol addictions are common. She has so much potential, but she knows that there’s nothing for her here, only risk. She has a plan to get out. Listen to learn more.
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April 10th, 2023 - Mayuree just wanted to study and spend time with her friends, but as the second oldest child in a family of six, she was responsible for a lot of household duties, in a culture that doesn't value girls' education, and in an abusive environment - all of which also put her at risk of trafficking. This is the story of her escape. Listen to learn more.
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April 4th, 2023 - In 2020, we shared with you a story about a young woman named Mai. At that time she was a youth at risk. Today, we’re sharing something really special: a look at where she is now, three years after graduating from our child sex trafficking prevention programs. Listen to learn more.
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March 30th, 2023 - This April, we are thrilled to share three new stories with you – stories about transformation, where generous donor support enabled a child or young person at risk of being trafficked into the sex trade to turn their life around. We hope these stories will show how pivotal generous donor support is to changing lives. Listen to learn more.
Help us raise $10,000 by April 25th to support another 120 at-risk children!
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March 16th, 2023 - Have you ever considered hosting an awareness raising party to tell people about child trafficking? It’s a great way to connect with your friends and tell them about a cause you’re passionate about! It might be daunting to think about, but with a little planning, it can be a lot of fun and super rewarding. Listen to learn more.
Here are the helpful links mentioned in the show:
Find helpful books here, at the bottom of this page.
Find videos to use on our Vimeo page.
Shop our store for swag for prizes.
Here's our blog post on why poverty can be traumatic.
More info about online violence perpetrated against children.
Other ideas of topics that are related to child sex trafficking.
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February 23rd, 2023 - Despite growing awareness that abusers tend to be people the child knows, there is still an assumption that online predators must be strangers. However, there is growing evidence that the perpetrators of online violence against children are not strangers either. Listen to learn more.
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February 16th, 2023 - It looks like several Western governments are strengthening efforts to tackle forced labor in supply chains - but we're going to need widespread cultural norms to support this as well. Listen to learn more.
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February 9, 2023 - It’s not just having work that matters. Quality of work matters too. If the jobs available aren’t good enough, it creates incentives to turn to other sources of income to make ends meet – including the sex trade. Listen to learn more.
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February 2, 2023 - Rising costs of living, 26 Rohingyas rescued, Hmong women spreading awareness on TikTok, and other headlines that you might find interesting. Listen to learn more.
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January 26th, 2023 - It's the start of 2023 - a great time to reflect on where we are and where we're headed. Our CEO, Lucy McCray, shares her thoughts and goals.Listen to learn more.
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January 19th, 2022 - Last spring, we introduced you to a young student, Manee*, who, even at the tender age of 11, was already under a lot of pressure to support her family. We have an update on what has happened to her and her family since. Listen to learn more.
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January 11th, 2022 - January 11, is Human Trafficking Awareness Day - and January is Human Trafficking Awareness Month! Naturally, this is when you’ll see a lot of anti-trafficking organizations sharing important facts and statistics about trafficking and banging the drum about the urgency of the problem. And the problem is urgent. But the urgency of this moment is different than before. Listen to learn more.
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December 27th, 2022 - "It leaks everywhere every time it rains." It's a description of Nin's house, but it's also an apt description of the security she's had around her since her parents passed away. Listen to learn more about Nin and what we're doing to help her.
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December 20th, 2022 - At the age of just 13, Pip and his sister Amm (age 10) are left alone to manage the home, care for themselves and complete all the daily tasks and responsibilities. For weeks at a stretch, they’re left to fend for themselves. Listen to learn more.
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December 20th, 2022 - Amara dreams of becoming a novelist and already has made a running start for herself writing romance stories, which she shares online for pay. We're working to help her support herself while staying safe from potential exploitation. Listen to learn more.
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December 6th, 2022 - At the age of 12, Bay is expected in Hmong culture to be responsible for washing dishes, sweeping the house, washing clothes, cooking, and helping her mother with farm work. These aren't all the challenges she faces though. Listen to learn more about Bay.
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November 29th, 2022 - Emi's stepfather was pressuring her to work in a massage parlor by the time she was 15, to help support the family. This raised the alarm bells for our staff at The Freedom Story. Listen to learn more.
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November 24th, 2022 - Happy Thanksgiving! It’s been another year of change and uncertainty, but if anything, our bonds and connection have only grown stronger. We have so much to be grateful for and so many people in our community to whom we give thanks. Listen to learn more.
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November 23rd, 2022 - Buiy is the kind of person to skip meals if it means her younger siblings get to eat. By the time she was 14 years old, she already had a lot of experience in doing without. She has been willing to sacrifice almost anything for her family – even if it puts her at risk. Listen to learn more.
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November 17th, 2022 - As we near the year’s end and reflect on our work to prevent child trafficking, connection is what stands out. Starting Tuesday, November 22 (which is next Tuesday!), we’ll be sharing stories from our students that show the power of this connection. This week's episode is short; just a quick peek at what's coming up in the following weeks. Listen to learn more.
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November 10th, 2022 - Trafficking is such a huge problem, prevention needs to be cultivated in so many more places – in a way that’s ethical, sustainable, locally led, and culturally sensitive. But we don’t need to keep reinventing the wheel. Through collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and mutual capacity-building, we can spread the message of prevention more powerfully. Listen to learn more.
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November 3rd, 2022 - While news articles about child trafficking, human trafficking, and sex trafficking are likely to be fairly accurate in the details of what they report, they have a tendency to emphasize particular angles or perspectives. Over time, this might lead to a certain understanding that, while not wrong, might be incomplete. Let’s take a look at what regular readers of the news might glean about trafficking – and what might be missed. Listen to learn more.
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October 27th, 2022 - In-person activities are back in full swing at The Freedom Story’s Resource Centers as COVID restrictions have receded. This week, we’d like to tell you about some of the in-person activities that we’re most excited about: our Family Camp and a visit with trafficking survivors. Listen to learn more.
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October 20th, 2022 - We are happy to announce that our Director of Strategy, Lucy McCray, has accepted the position of President of The Freedom Story! Rachel Goble is gratefully accepting a position as the Chair of Board of Directors. They have both written letters to our community sharing their perspectives on this transition. If you’re signed up for our newsletters you will already have seen these. For those who haven’t seen them yet, we’d love to share them with you too. Listen to them right here.
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October 13th, 2022 - In our experience working directly with families and children at-risk, recent years have become a particularly challenging time–and it looks like global estimates are telling the same story. Global Estimates released in September have reported that nearly 50 million people were living in modern slavery in 2021–that’s an increase by 10 million people over the estimates in 2016. Listen to learn more.
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October 6th, 2022 - Do you know about The Pong? The Ping Pong A Thon, that is! Ping Pong A Thon has been among our most steadfast and generous sources of support over the past decade. They gather people together in a community for a 3 to 24-hour ping pong tournament, in which they help raise awareness about sex trafficking and raise funds to support organizations like us. Listen to learn more.
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September 29th, 2022 - There's something you should know about sugar–specifically the sugar industry from the Dominican Republic, which is the source of a lot of sugar in America, under brand names such as Domino, Florida Crystals, C&H Sugar, and Tate & Lyle. Child labor is only part of it. This story might seem tangentially related to our focus, but hang tight; we think you'll see why it's of interest. Listen to learn more.
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September 15th, 2022 - There’s still so much we don’t know about traffickers. Too much attention about trafficking is still heavily focused on how much trafficking there is when, really, if we want to bring an end to trafficking, we need to know a lot more about who traffickers are, how they got there, and why. Listen to learn more.
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September 15th, 2022 - There has been a rise in trafficking, whereby people are lured by job offers for positions in call centers or similar ventures, but then find themselves trafficked to Cambodia, subjected to beatings, torture, enslavement, and sometimes even killed. They are forced to work incredibly long hours for crime syndicates and they are forced to perpetuate online scams. Listen to learn more.
Here is the Al Jazeera Video "Forced to Scam: Cambodia's Cyber Slaves".
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September 8th, 2022 - Migration gets a bad rap. Even those who support migrants’ rights tend to focus on the problems: irregular migration, undocumented migration, the dangers of trafficking, and migration’s negative impacts on those who migrate and their families, and on origin and destination countries. In this week’s episode, we take a closer look at the beneficial aspects of migration–and its inevitability. Reframing migration can help us better cope with its impact and better support the people who move. Listen to learn more.
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September 1st, 2022 - Relying on a checklist of risk factors to measure vulnerability may inadvertently lead to a misunderstanding of how vulnerability works. On today's episode, we take a look at the importance of narrative, or seeing vulnerability as a process over time. Listen to learn more.
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August 25th, 2022 - This year’s Trafficking in Persons Report expressly calls out corruption for its linkage to trafficking, going so far as to cite a UNODC report that argues trafficking in persons could not happen on a large scale if it weren’t for corruption. In this final segment reviewing the report, we’ll discuss in more detail how corruption facilitates trafficking and some of the Report’s key recommendations. Listen to learn more.
Find the 2022 Trafficking in Persons Report here: https://www.state.gov/reports/2022-trafficking-in-persons-report/
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August 18th, 2022 - This year’s TIP Report highlights the looming threat of climate change and its links to vulnerability to human trafficking. Climate change-related disasters disproportionately impact people who are already vulnerable to trafficking, and as environmental conditions get worse, more people will be impacted. It's estimated that human trafficking has the potential to increase by 20-30% at the hand of humanitarian disasters causing lost livelihoods and disrupted families. Listen to learn more.
Find the 2022 Trafficking in Persons Report here: https://www.state.gov/reports/2022-trafficking-in-persons-report/
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August 11th, 2022 - We're back and recovered to good health! Let's get caught up on our podcasts! Today, we’re zooming in on this year's TIP Report's Special Focus on how governments can act as traffickers. Several states have been called out for demonstrating a pattern of using their power to compel their own citizens into sex trafficking or forced labor. State engagement in trafficking more directly links a country to a Tier 3 ranking. Listen to learn more.
Find the 2022 Trafficking in Persons Report here: https://www.state.gov/reports/2022-trafficking-in-persons-report/
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August 4th, 2022 - We're back and recovered to good health! Let's get caught up on our podcasts! One of the special focus areas in this year's Trafficking in Persons Report is China’s Belt and Road Initiative (or B.R.I.) and the prevalence of forced labor in its projects, not just in China but also in other countries participating in the BRI. We’ll take a look at what the Belt and Road Initiative is and why it’s of concern to US foreign policy. Then we’ll talk about what the special focus says about its links to forced labor – as well as what it doesn’t say. Listen to learn more.
Find the 2022 Trafficking in Persons Report here: https://www.state.gov/reports/2022-trafficking-in-persons-report/
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July 28th, 2022 - The 2022 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report was released last week and we thought it might be helpful if we shared some of the key takeaways from the report with you. We introduce some of the main themes plus some of the most important Thailand-specific takeaways. Listen to learn more.
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July 21st, 2022 - The latest in the news about human trafficking is a great illustration of the breadth of extremes this crime touches. Recent revelations about an Olympic athlete’s background as a child trafficking victim come concurrently with news reports about a large network of Rohingya girl victims trafficked from Bangladesh to India. As the former gains intense media attention, the hope is that it might shine a light on the plight of so many others who suffer similarly. Listen to learn more.
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July 14th, 2022 - As people move from rural areas to cities in the hopes of escaping climate-related disasters and finding more stable jobs and income, it is expected that the influx of people can strain cities’ infrastructures and resources. If cities are unprepared to handle the influx, it can lead to strife, conflict, violence, and crime–a situation likely to be ripe for traffickers to exploit. Urban fragility, therefore, is something to pay close attention to, to think holistically about how to protect people from trafficking and exploitation. Listen to learn more.
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July 7th, 2022 - Thailand is starting to open up to tourism and larger, in-person events as the COVID situation improves. While there is still concern about community spread, the government has been able to relax border regulations and ease restrictions on public activities, thus allowing us to resume many of our in-person activities. We've got a lot going on in the evolving situation! Listen to learn more.
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June 30th, 2022 - One of the most common questions people have about our programs is how we select our scholarship students. People wonder how we know that the students in our program are at risk of trafficking and exploitation. It’s a great question, and one of the most important and most difficult parts of what we do. Listen to learn more.
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June 23rd, 2022 - Anti-trafficking intervention and aftercare services tend to be almost exclusively centered on the victims, which seems natural, understandable, and correct. What this overlooks, however, is the impact on their families–the people whose father, mother, sister, brother, or child has gone missing, and who may not know where to turn for help. These people are often overlooked and sidelined, though the trauma they experience, too, is very real. Listen to learn more.
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June 16th, 2022 - When anti-trafficking organizations first started thinking about what prevention might look like, the biggest component was awareness-raising. The idea was to reach as many people as possible and warn them about trafficking by telling them what it is, how it can happen, and how to report it. It's essential. But time and experience have shown that it isn’t enough. Listen to learn more.
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June 9th, 2022 - People from across the anti-trafficking field are finding multitudinous ways to study trafficking. While we still might not have a lot of very precise data, we are coming at the data problem from a variety of angles–and that might end up giving us a fuller understanding of the picture than we would if we rested on one or two more precise measures alone. Listen to learn more.
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June 2nd, 2022 - For the most part, laws against trafficking, labor abuses, and child sexual exploitation exist. While it’s true that some legal frameworks could be strengthened, a large part of the problem has less to do with the existence or lack of laws and more to do with a breakdown in implementing them. Listen to learn more.
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May 26th, 2022 - The instability in the lives of migrant workers could put them at a greater risk of exploitation and trafficking. Partnerships with organizations like JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency) help us provide more stability for them. Listen to learn more.
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May 19th, 2022 - We’ve talked about how COVID increases the risk of trafficking. We have also talked about the rise of online sexual exploitation. In the last six months or so, these two challenges coalesced into a new form of trafficking and exploitation. A growing number of Thai nationals are being trafficked to neighboring countries and forced to perform labor for places like call centers and illegal online gambling sites. Listen to learn more.
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May 12th, 2022 - When we think of child trafficking, we generally assume the trafficker is an older adult who preys on minors. That has typically been the case, with ages primarily ranging from traffickers in their 20s to in their 60s. However, our peers in the anti-trafficking field in South East Asia have reported that they are seeing an emerging trend of younger people becoming involved – as perpetrators. Listen to learn more.
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May 3rd, 2022 - Trafficking is already a horrific, damaging, and traumatizing experience. Unfortunately, there are dynamics in play now that are making it worse – not just in the sense that the amount of trafficking is increasing, but that new challenges contribute to the damage trafficking can cause. In the past two years, COVID measures like lockdowns, quarantines, and travel restrictions did not reduce the incidence of trafficking. Listen to learn more.
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April 21st, 2022 - We're welcoming a new cohort and have created a composition story for you to listen to! Listen to learn more.
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April 12th, 2022 - Friends, we’ve got some exciting things to share with you this month! Between April 18th-29th, we’ll be releasing a new video and more student stories – but expect them to be a little different from what we’ve shared in the past. We hope what we share here will really show you the impact you’re making as part of our community committed to preventing child trafficking! Listen to learn more.
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April 7th, 2022 - For the sake of ease, discussion about trafficking tends to revolve around categories: labor trafficking, child trafficking, sex trafficking, etc. Another way to think of trafficking is as part of a spectrum of abuse and exploitation (concept courtesy of a legal training hosted by The Remedy Project, USAID Asia CTIP, and USAID Thailand CTIP). On one end, there is decent work that follows international and national laws and is undertaken with free, willing, and informed consent. On the other end is slavery. In the middle, there could be work that is harsh but does not violate regulations. Listen to learn more.
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March 31st, 2022 - For the sake of ease, discussion about trafficking tends to revolve around categories: labor trafficking, child trafficking, sex trafficking, etc. Another way to think of trafficking is as part of a spectrum of abuse and exploitation (concept courtesy of a legal training hosted by The Remedy Project, USAID Asia CTIP, and USAID Thailand CTIP). Listen to learn more.
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March 24th, 2022 - A plethora of news sources are picking up on the alarm bells ringing in Europe about the particular risks women and children are facing as they flee conflict in Ukraine. Their focus is on the immediate and obvious risks of abuse, trafficking, and exploitation, but it is foreseeable that longer term risks can also arise. Listen to learn more.
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March 17th, 2022 - Highly educated, middle-class women have been turning online to social media to earn money in exchange for explicit photos and videos of themselves. Oftentimes, they cite being saddled with enormous debts from student loans and not enough income from “normal jobs” as the impetus behind jumping on a quick way to get out from under the mountain of debt. There is an element of glamorizing it too, with lures of being able to afford luxury goods. Listen to learn more.
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March 10th, 2022 - In response to last year’s Trafficking in Persons Report, when Thailand was downgraded to the Tier 2 Watch List, the agenda has focused on intensifying efforts to move up towards Tier 1. The report offered recommendations to improve the country’s standing by: increasing law enforcement’s capacity to investigate and prosecute, investing in multi-disciplinary training, increasing understanding of the linkages between forced labor and trafficking, facilitating government collaboration, and increasing trauma-informed care and treatment of survivors at every step of the way through the legal and recovery process. It is a policy priority to try to meet these recommendations. Listen to learn more.
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March 3rd, 2022 - Tuesday, March 8 is International Women’s Day! This year, the theme is “Break the Bias” and the call is for us all to help create a world free of bias, stereotypes, and discrimination. This goal is especially important for us, as we continue in our mission to prevent child trafficking. In our experience, discrimination renders marginalized people even more vulnerable to trafficking or makes it harder for them to access help if they have become victims of exploitation. Listen to learn more.
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February 24th, 2022 - As we shared last week, traffickers are capitalizing on opportunities the pandemic presents. Trafficking has not diminished, so we believe it is more important than ever to focus on prevention. We must address all the factors that push or lure people into risky situations or leave them unprotected if they are trafficked. Research shows that prevention programs are most effective when combining awareness-raising with actual material support. Listen to learn more.
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February 17th, 2022 - It might be tempting to hope that lockdowns, social distancing measures, travel restrictions, and fear of illness would have curbed trafficker activity. Unfortunately, this has not been the case. Traffickers have adapted to COVID challenges in a variety of ways. Listen to learn more.
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February 3rd, 2022 - At the beginning of the pandemic, you may remember, there were predictions that we would see an increase in trafficking, as well as instances of other kinds of abuse, like domestic violence. Meanwhile, service providers, like shelters, would be hampered in their ability to help their clients or respond to increased demand, especially in lockdown situations. As we’ve talked about before, these predictions have largely turned out to be true. However, now in our third year of this pandemic, we can take a look at how anti-trafficking organizations, especially in aftercare services, are adapting to challenges brought by COVID19. Listen to learn more.
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February 3rd, 2022 - For nearly two decades, the use of child labor had been on a very promising downward trend. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 crisis has reversed it. While child labor had been decreasing since the year 2000, a UNICEF report released last June states that the number of children engaged in child labor has now risen to 160 million worldwide. The report further warns that, “globally, 9 million additional children are at risk of being pushed into child labour by the end of 2022 as a result of the pandemic.” And, children who had already been engaged in child labor were pushed to work longer hours or in worse conditions, especially where employers might have taken advantage of cutbacks in labor safety inspections. Listen to learn more.
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January 27th, 2022 - After years of allegations and prolonged intense media attention, the Ghislaine Maxwell trial finally ended in conviction last month. Because it received so much public attention, it might be helpful to put this case in context, to shed light on sex trafficking–both in how it aligns with how most cases of trafficking happen and also in how it was strikingly different. Listen to learn more.
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January 20th, 2022 - At the start of 2022, it’s a great time to take stock of where we are, and where we’re headed. This week, our CEO, Rachel Goble, is sharing some of her thoughts, helping to set our tone and intentions for this coming year. Listen to learn more.
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January 13th, 2022 - It’s the beginning of the third year of a global pandemic, and many of us are coping with the Omicron wave. It feels like so many are getting hit with this one. Even if you and your family have so far managed to escape COVID, you likely know others who haven’t been so lucky. It’s a long time to go through upheaval and a long time without a sense of normalcy–only a continual attempt to ride whatever wave of “new normal” we face.
But…traffickers don’t stop, even in the face of a pandemic. So… Listen to learn more.
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January 6th, 2022 - 2022 is off to a fantastically strong start, thanks to our community of donors who gave so generously to help support children at risk of trafficking. Listen to learn more.
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December 26th, 2021 - When Sara’s father died, her life changed irrevocably. She describes her father as the pillar of their household. When he passed, she says, “After that, our home felt pointless, lonely, unbearable, desolate, and millions of other feelings all at the same time. At that time, it could be said that the mental state of the people in the house was very bad and very hopeless.” Listen to learn more.
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December 19th, 2021 - Like many boys his age, Det* loves sports. “I like to play sports because it makes me healthy. It also helped me learn self-discipline, patience, and strength while building relationships with friends,” he says. His favorite subject in school is PE. It helps him relieve stress. Det has faced multiple stressors in his young life, and we believe they put him at risk. Listen to learn more.
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December 12th, 2021 - Among the Hmong people, it is common to believe that girls’ education is less important than for boys. When a girl gets married, she becomes part of the husband’s family and no longer contributes to her own. From many parents’ perspectives, especially among older generations, even a college-educated woman will find value only with her husband’s family. For families that are in poverty, it seems to be not worth the investment. One of our students, Arisa, faces this situation. Listen to learn more.
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December 5th, 2021 - Boribun* is a 14-year-old who loves to sing and play guitar. He is Hmong, an ethnic minority from a village with deep drug addiction and drug trafficking problems. His family is large, with no reliable income, which is another source of stress. The world around him is rife with instability. Music is his escape. Listen to learn more.
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November 28th, 2021 - We’re thrilled to announce a new video that shares about two sisters, Saifon and Panee! These young women are stateless, meaning they don’t have any kind of national citizenship. Statelessness leaves them without the legal protections that governments give based on citizenship, and they are also denied access to many of the basic rights citizens enjoy. Listen to learn more.
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November 22nd, 2021 - Surachat knows what it feels like to suffer from depression. He is quiet and avoids people, especially those he doesn’t know. Beneath the reticent exterior, this young man carries a life of pain and hardship and the weight of ensuring his and his younger brother, Surachai’s, survival. Listen to learn more.
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October 21st, 2021 - The COVID pandemic has made it even more of a challenge to do outreach to areas, like migrant communities, that are already difficult to reach. However, our team has taken on the challenge and found creative ways to still spread knowledge and awareness to marginalized people.
Because of COVID, many things have been prohibited: large gatherings, the travel of migrants, and outsiders accessing migrant camps. These restrictions mean we can’t do the outreach sessions or workshops as we normally would. We’ve had to get creative! Listen to learn more.
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October 7th, 2021 - While Thailand managed to avoid the brunt of COVID-19 cases last year–including a 200-day stretch with 0 cases–this year, Thailand has been hit much harder. Strict lockdowns and border closures kept case numbers low in 2020. COVID’s second wave hit migrant worker communities outside Bangkok in January 2021, but it was well contained. Listen to learn more.
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September 29th, 2021 - People in the communities with which we work are already beginning to see the impacts of climate change and the instability it brings to their lives. Though they live close to the earth and its natural resources and their communities have contributed relatively little to the causes of climate change, they are among the first to become most vulnerable to extreme weather events. Listen to learn more.
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September 23rd, 2021 - In Southeast Asia, climate change looks like a whiplash between extremes: rising heat, intense rainy seasons, and droughts. We’ve witnessed this in our own community of families and children we support. The intensity of the rainy season damaged their crops. Ginger became moldy and spoiled. Floods ruined the rice. Droughts caused water shortages, making farming–and their livelihood–untenable. (A drought in 2010 was so severe, the Mekong dried up to the point people could even walk across it in places. In Chiang Rai, people were unable to fish, thus cutting off a vital food source.) Landslides disrupted access to work and hospitals. And the extreme weather led to other stressors and added costs, like fixing weather-related damage to housing. Some people’s roofs even came entirely off their homes. Many families had to leave the community to search for other work. This is the story of how climate change can put people at risk of labor exploitation and human trafficking. Listen to learn more.
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September 21, 2021 - The #MeToo Movement has helped foster a critical shift in the conversation about sexual consent from “No Means No” to beyond even “There Must Be a Yes” to “There Must Be Enthusiastic Yes.” Listen to learn more. Welcome to The Freedom Story podcast where we bring you our weekly updates, in audio version. For more information, please visit www.thefreedomstory.org.
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September 16th, 2021 - In 2018, a flood hit a Hmong village in the Nan Province of northern Thailand in the nighttime. Villagers woke up to find their houses floating toward the river. A landslide occurred, an essential bridge broke, two children died, over 400 homes were damaged, and the farmers–the vast majority of the villagers–lost their entire crop and a whole year’s income. Listen to learn more.
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September 8th, 2021 - A couple of years ago, one of our partner organizations reported on a case where a teenage boy had been arrested for trafficking. He and his girlfriend had broken up, and he subsequently took revenge by sharing explicit footage of her online via multiple apps for money. They were both underage. This is about how kids can get involved in trafficking other kids. Listen to learn more.
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March 11th, 2021 - Welcome to The Freedom Story podcast where we bring you our weekly updates, in audio version. For more information, please visit www.thefreedomstory.org.
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December 28, 2020 - “When I was eleven, my mom died in a motorbike accident… that was a huge change in my life,” says Phikun.* Listen to learn more. Welcome to The Freedom Story podcast where we bring you our weekly updates, in audio version. For more information, please visit www.thefreedomstory.org.
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December 22, 2020 - When Arpa, mother of two girls Preeda and Ying*, was growing up, she wanted to study. “But we were poor. We didn’t even have rice to eat. So I decided to go to work. I studied until 3rd grade. I can read and write a bit and that was enough. I wanted my kids to have a chance to study more than me. But in the past, when school started, we would really struggle to find money to buy the bags, the school supplies, the things they needed.” These challenges would be enough to make them candidates for our program, but it’s not the only thing putting the family at risk. Listen to learn more. Welcome to The Freedom Story podcast where we bring you our weekly updates, in audio version. For more information, please visit www.thefreedomstory.org.
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December 15, 2020 - When we first started working in anti-trafficking, poverty was the trafficker, the biggest factor aiding and abetting vulnerability to exploitation. But in recent years, as kids started getting access to mobile phones and the internet, trafficking increasingly shows up in the form of exploitation online. Listen to learn more. Welcome to The Freedom Story podcast where we bring you our weekly updates, in audio version. For more information, please visit www.thefreedomstory.org.
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December 8, 2020 - “My biggest concern and fear has always been, ‘What will I do to get Pon his citizenship?’” Listen to learn more. Welcome to The Freedom Story podcast where we bring you our weekly updates, in audio version. For more information, please visit www.thefreedomstory.org.
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December 1, 2020 - Early this year, we had a case that was a narrow escape – one of the narrowest we’ve encountered. Listen to learn more. Welcome to The Freedom Story podcast where we bring you our weekly updates, in audio version. For more information, please visit www.thefreedomstory.org.
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November 23, 2020 - When Mai* was seven, her parents sent her away from their home in Myanmar to live with her aunt in Thailand so she could get a better life. It was not the promise they imagined it would be. Listen to learn more. Welcome to The Freedom Story podcast where we bring you our weekly updates, in audio version. For more information, please visit www.thefreedomstory.org.
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November 19, 2020 - A Personal Essay, by our Research Writer & Editor, Dr. Jade Keller. Listen to learn more. Welcome to The Freedom Story podcast where we bring you our weekly updates, in audio version. For more information, please visit www.thefreedomstory.org.
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October 29, 2020 - Over the years, there has been growing awareness of the prevalence of sexual assault and violence–whether sex trafficking, rape, child abuse or any of its other myriad forms. What that prevalence translates to is a lot of people who have suffered, and who may still be suffering from, trauma. Listen to learn more. Welcome to The Freedom Story podcast where we bring you our weekly updates, in audio version. For more information, please visit www.thefreedomstory.org.
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October 22, 2020 - Everyone who has looked closely at the issue of human trafficking knows there’s a data problem. Listen to learn more. Welcome to The Freedom Story podcast where we bring you our weekly updates, in audio version. For more information, please visit www.thefreedomstory.org.
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October 8th, 2020 - Welcome to The Freedom Story podcast where we bring you our weekly updates, in audio version. For more information, please visit www.thefreedomstory.org.
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September 24th, 2020 - Welcome to The Freedom Story podcast where we bring you our weekly updates, in audio version. For more information, please visit www.thefreedomstory.org.
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September 17th, 2020 - Welcome to The Freedom Story podcast where we bring you our weekly updates, in audio version. For more information, please visit www.thefreedomstory.org.
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September 9th, 2020 - Welcome to The Freedom Story podcast where we bring you our weekly updates, in audio version. For more information, please visit www.thefreedomstory.org.
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August 19th, 2020 - Welcome to The Freedom Story podcast where we bring you our weekly updates, in audio version. For more information, please visit www.thefreedomstory.org.
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August 13th, 2020 - Welcome to The Freedom Story podcast where we bring you our weekly updates, in audio version. For more information, please visit www.thefreedomstory.org.
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August 6th, 2020 - Welcome to The Freedom Story podcast where we bring you our weekly updates, in audio version. For more information, please visit www.thefreedomstory.org.
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July 30th, 2020 - Welcome to The Freedom Story podcast where we bring you our weekly updates, in audio version. For more information, please visit www.thefreedomstory.org.
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July 23rd, 2020 - Welcome to The Freedom Story podcast where we bring you our weekly updates, in audio version. For more information, please visit www.thefreedomstory.org.
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July 8th, 2020 - Welcome to The Freedom Story podcast where we bring you our weekly updates, in audio version. For more information, please visit www.thefreedomstory.org.
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July 2nd, 2020 - Welcome to The Freedom Story podcast where we bring you our weekly blog updates, in audio version. For more information, please visit www.thefreedomstory.org.
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June 25, 2020 - Welcome to The Freedom Story podcast where we bring you our weekly blog updates, in audio version. For more information, please visit www.thefreedomstory.org.
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