Mark Wexler is Co-Founder and CEO of Not For Sale, which he launched in 2007. He has spent two decades building alternatives to the systems that enable modern-day slavery and ecocide rather than simply fighting them, including regular return trips to Southeast Asia’s Golden Triangle, where he has tracked the cyber-scam compound economy firsthand since the organization’s earliest days. He helped launch Just Business, REBBL, Krunam Technologies, Dignita, and Regenerate Technology Global, and advises M2i Global on critical minerals strategy. As a Visiting Research Fellow at King’s College London, his research traces how mineral and metal supply chains create forced labor, and what it would take to redesign them.
Articles by Mark Wexler
Human Trafficking
Indonesia’s Riau Islands Report 143 Trafficking Victims in 2026. Why Border Routes Matter.
Police in Indonesia's Riau Islands say they have handled 36 trafficking cases this year and brought home 49 people from abroad. New cooperation talks underline the vulnerability of workers moving through a busy maritime border region.
Ecocide
Peru’s 20 Million SOL Illegal Gold Mining Crackdown: Why the Amazon Needs More Than Raids
In Madre de Dios, a mining crackdown can be measured in engines, rafts and camps dismantled. What is much harder to measure is whether the forest, and the people who depend on it, are any safer after the operation ends.
Human Trafficking
The Tate allegations and the difference between consent and control
Trafficking can begin with the promise of love. The Tate allegations raise a wider question about consent: how free is someone to refuse, make their own decisions or leave, and what support would make leaving possible?
Ecocide
Croatia Moves to Criminalize Ecocide, With Prison Sentences of Up to 40 Years Proposed
Croatia is moving to criminalize ecocide, with proposed prison sentences of up to 40 years for the most serious environmental offenses as Europe strengthens its response to large-scale ecological destruction.
Ecocide
Myanmar’s Rare-Earth Mining Boom Exposes the Link Between Forced Labor and Ecocide
A new UN report shows how Myanmar’s expanding rare-earth mining economy is damaging ecosystems while exposing workers and communities to debt bondage, exploitation and forced labor risks.
Social Innovation
Thai Flooding: Kru Nam is back on the road
Kru Nam and her team will be back on the road by the time this reaches you.
Human Trafficking
International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition 2026: Why August 23 Is a Day of Resistance
August 23 commemorates the resistance that helped change the history of slavery. More than two centuries later, the day also invites us to examine why forced labor and human trafficking continue.
Human Trafficking
A Gift to Traffickers: Sex Trafficking Cases Hit 16-Year Low
Corruption is what lets modern-day slavery function. This week the US deleted its corporate ownership records as trafficking prosecutions hit a 16-year low.
Social Innovation
A New Chapter
Not For Sale has never worked from a fixed playbook. From the beginning, our work has lived in a constant state of…
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Dr. David Batstone
Co-Founder and President of Not For SaleDr. David Batstone is Co-Founder and President of Not For Sale and the author of the book that gave the organization its name.1 article
Dr. David Mwambari
Country Director of Not For Sale South RwandaDr. David Mwambari directs Not For Sale's work in Rwanda and is an associate professor at KU Leuven, where his research covers memory politics, conflict, and…1 article