Google.org Awards Multi-Year Grant to Joint Initiative Against Modern-Day Slavery

I am excited to share this major announcement with you. As you can see from the below press release, Google.org is providing a multi-year grant to Polaris Project, International Justice Mission, and Slavery Footprint to implement a unified initiative focused on  eradicating modern-day slavery.

This is a significant endorsement of the impact that [...]

By Bradley Myles on 14th December 2011 | Category: Author: Bradley Myles, Corporate Social Accountability | One comment

Are you a responsible consumer? 3 Sites to jump start you [Part 1]

As consumers we face countless choices for the goods and services we can buy. However, for socially conscious consumers who are aware of the frequent intersections between human trafficking and corporate supply chains, there is the added desire of purchasing goods that are socially responsible. But how do we really know how things are produced?

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By Public Outreach and Communications Dept. Fellow on 2nd August 2011 | Category: Activism, Author: Public Outreach, Corporate Social Accountability, Labor Trafficking | One comment

Polaris Project awarded 4 Star Charity rating third year in a row!

Most of the time, we report out to you on the progress we are making to end human trafficking. We let you know when our advocacy efforts played a critical role in getting Craigslist to shut down their Adult /services section. We recently told you about the crackdown on Asian massage [...]

By on 5th May 2011 | Tags: , , , | Category: Corporate Social Accountability | One comment

Partnership Aims to Safeguard the Massage Profession from Human Trafficking

The brochure is available in English, Korean, and Mandarin Chinese

The issue of illegal brothels posing as legitimate massage parlors is tied to Polaris Project’s first moments as an organization.  Our founders, Katherine Chon and Derek Ellerman, became passionate about the issue of human trafficking after learning about one of [...]

By Elizabeth Pfenning on 2nd May 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: Author: Elizabeth Pfenning, Corporate Social Accountability, Human Trafficking in the U.S., Human Trafficking Initiatives, Sex Trafficking | One comment
 
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