Tag: modern-day slavery

NEW VIDEO: CNN posts bonus video on CIW’s Modern-day Slavery Museum…

Just last month, the CNN Freedom Project -- an award-winning, cutting edge investigative team of journalists who produce remarkable stories on modern-day slavery worldwide, run by CNN International -- published three excellent videos on the CIW.  The first was a powerful report on the Fair Food Program and its deep, daily impact on workers' lives, with a particular focus on its record >> Read More

CNN on FFP, Part III: “When we get calls from outside the Fair Food Program, it is heartbreaking”…

CNN Freedom Project: "There are roughly 30,000 people currently working on Fair Food Program farms and receiving all the protections and benefits outlined in the agreements.  But, there's still a long way to go to bringing the rest of the country onboard."Today we bring you the third and final installment of the extraordinary CNN report on the Fair Food Program, >> Read More
CNN on Fair Food Program: “How America’s ‘ground-zero’ for modern slavery was cleaned up by workers’ group…”

CNN on Fair Food Program: “How America’s ‘ground-zero’ for modern slavery was cleaned up by workers’ group…”

Alejandrina Carrera, worker on FFP farm: “You’re not going to be harassed, you’re not going to be insulted, you’re not going to be forced to work. There’s more respect now.” In an exceptional video series, CNN Freedom Project lifts up FFP as "most comprehensive social responsibility program in U.S. agriculture"... This week, the award-winning team at the CNN Freedom Project -- a new series designed to >> Read More

$3.5 million judgment closes books on yet another forced labor case in Florida’s fields…

[caption id="attachment_25355" align="aligncenter" width="600"] The Ft. Myers, Florida, courthouse pictured here, where the judgment was handed down earlier this month, stands less than an hour's drive from the fields where workers were threatened with guns and sexually assaulted by their field boss.[/caption] Newest case marks ninth forced labor operation brought to justice by CIW's Anti-Slavery Program since 1997, demonstrates enduring perils >> Read More

European governments take note of Fair Food Program’s power to resolve longstanding human rights conflicts…

Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) publishes brief on Fair Food Program in quarterly magazine...In an effort to provide a forum for economic cooperation and reduce tensions during the height of the Cold War, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) was formed in 1975 in Helsinki, Finland.  Since then, it has expanded to include 57 member states -- >> Read More

National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month marked by sentencing in FFP forced labor prosecution…

In one of his last official acts in office, President Obama signed an eloquent statement on the scourge of slavery that has plagued this country, in one form or another, for centuries, declaring January "National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month."  The statement began:BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATIONOur Nation wrestled with the issue of >> Read More
Running from Responsibility: Wendy’s flees Florida rather than support Fair Food Program’s human rights advances…

Running from Responsibility: Wendy’s flees Florida rather than support Fair Food Program’s human rights advances…

  While Fair Food Program farms in Florida continue to raise the bar for human rights in the US agricultural industry, outrageous human rights violations on farms outside the Program continue to fester. Why then has Wendy's abandoned the Florida tomato industry altogether?  And where are they buying their tomatoes today? Last month, when consumers across the country called on Wendy's >> Read More

Extreme Makeover: Florida tomato industry edition…

[hupso_hide][hupso title="#Florida tomato industry makeover - a 2 pt reflection..." url="https://ciw-online.org/?p=18988"] [caption id="attachment_18990" align="aligncenter" width="301"] Before: The CIW's Modern-Day Slavery Museum visits Washington, DC in June of 2010[/caption] [caption id="attachment_18989" align="aligncenter" width="301"] After: CIW members celebrate new rights under Fair Food Program in Lakeland in March of 2013[/caption] In the space of just a few years, the CIW's Fair Food Program has >> Read More

Out with the old…

[hupso_hide][hupso title="#HappyNewYear! Take a look back at #FairFoodNation during busy & wildly successful #2013 " url="https://ciw-online.org/?p=17719"] Not so fast!  We take a look back at 2013 -- the year the Fair Food Program proved its mettle and won acclaim from the White House to the United Nations -- before heading into what is sure to be a huge 2014... The >> Read More

CIW invited to speak in Geneva at United Nations!

[hupso_hide][hupso title=".@CIW to speak at #UnitedNations at Forum on Business & #HumanRights and @TrustWomenConf!" url="https://ciw-online.org/?p=17157"] CIW to also address the "Trust Women" Conference in London in first week of December, as the Fair Food Program's growing reputation for effective human rights protection crosses the Atlantic... Back in May of this year, a delegation from the United Nations Working Group traveled >> Read More