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International Coalition Against Modern Slavery

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    • About
      • Who we Are
      • Our team
      • Contact Us
    • Our Work
      • Action Library
      • Migration Justice in U.S.
      • Extractivism in DRC
      • Sri Lanka Tea Plantations
    • Resources
      • Signs of Slavery
      • Hotline database
      • Myths of Modern Slavery
      • Gift Buying Guide
      • Know your rights
    • In the media
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International Coalition Against Modern Slavery

International Coalition Against Modern SlaveryInternational Coalition Against Modern SlaveryInternational Coalition Against Modern Slavery
  • Home
  • About
    • Who we Are
    • Our team
    • Contact Us
  • Our Work
    • Action Library
    • Migration Justice in U.S.
    • Extractivism in DRC
    • Sri Lanka Tea Plantations
  • Resources
    • Signs of Slavery
    • Hotline database
    • Myths of Modern Slavery
    • Gift Buying Guide
    • Know your rights
  • In the media
  • News

We envision a world free from forced labor, human trafficking, and the systemic inequalities that perpetuate exploitation.


Our Vision Statement

Our Mission

 The International Coalition Against Modern Slavery is a hub for education, advocacy, and anti-trafficking projects; organizing with those across sectors, movements, and around the world with diverse campaigns to take action against rising rates of forced labor and human trafficking.  

We use internationally recognized terms such as ‘modern slavery’ and ‘human trafficking’ to denote the most extreme forms of exploitation, emphasizing how human rights abuses continue to fuel our global economy.


International Coalition Against Modern Slavery

Our Values

People-powered

Combatting interlocked oppressions

Combatting interlocked oppressions

 

 We reject the top-down colonial ‘saviorist’ structure of many NGOs, instead opting to work in collaboration with local movements. We are building a network to support our communities, educate, and advocate through partnerships with other organizations, individuals, youth leaders, and survivor leaders. 

Combatting interlocked oppressions

Combatting interlocked oppressions

Combatting interlocked oppressions

 

 At the coalition, we recognize how modern slavery functions as a manifestation of gender inequality, the climate crisis, unchecked capitalism and corporate hegemony, imperialism, and all other forms of marginalization and disenfranchisement. 



Solidarity

Framework of liberation

Framework of liberation

 Solidarity grounds our efforts as we organize alongside community-based networks – as part of the labor rights movement, women’s rights movement, climate change movement, survivor's rights movement, queer liberation movement, migrant justice movement, disability movement, and more – to address the root causes of exploitation and fight corporate-driven human rights violations.  

Framework of liberation

Framework of liberation

Framework of liberation

 We support international human rights (Universal Declaration of Human Rights) and UNCRC (United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child). We reject the criminalization of survivors and migrants, whose exploitation is often facilitated through politics that leave them intentionally marginalized. 


Instead, we support a liberation-centered approach: combating the structural and institutional systems of violence that enable exploitation, while holding their corporate beneficiaries accountable 

Our Story

The International Coalition Against Modern Slavery was founded in 2021, following the International Week of Action Against Modern Slavery. The Coalition started as a grassroots network against forced labor and human trafficking. Over the years, it has grown to include youth leaders, members, and partner organizations across 38 countries. 


The Coalition shares resources for learning more about modern slavery and ways individuals can take action.

Meet the team

Modern slavery is one of the most widespread, yet least addressed human rights crises facing our world today. Deeply entwined with gender inequality, neocolonialism, forced displacement, and the climate crisis - forced labor remains a hidden cornerstone of our global economy.


Lela Tolajian, Founder and Executive Director

International Coalition Against Modern Slavery

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