--- title: "Mark Wexler" url: https://wearenotforsale.org/authors/mark-wexler/ publisher: "Not For Sale" --- [Authors](https://wearenotforsale.org/authors/) # Mark Wexler Co-Founder and CEO, Not For Sale [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/marktranwexler/) 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](http://www.justbusiness.is) , [REBBL](http://www.rebbl.co) , Krunam Technologies, [Dignita](http://eatwelldogood.nl) , and [Regenerate Technology Global](https://regeneratetechnology.com/) , and advises [M2i Global](http://www.m2i.global) on critical minerals strategy. As a Visiting Research Fellow at [King’s College London](https://www.kcl.ac.uk/) , his research traces how mineral and metal supply chains create forced labor, and what it would take to redesign them. ## Articles by Mark Wexler Oct 29, 2026 Human Trafficking [Indonesia’s Riau Islands Report 143 Trafficking Victims in 2026. Why Border Routes Matter.](https://wearenotforsale.org/human-trafficking/riau-islands-human-trafficking-2026/) 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. Oct 29, 2026 Ecocide [Peru’s 20 Million SOL Illegal Gold Mining Crackdown: Why the Amazon Needs More Than Raids](https://wearenotforsale.org/ecocide/madre-de-dios-illegal-gold-mining-raids-october-2026/) 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. Oct 15, 2026 Human Trafficking [The Tate allegations and the difference between consent and control](https://wearenotforsale.org/human-trafficking/tate-allegations-consent-coercive-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? Sep 3, 2026 Ecocide [Croatia Moves to Criminalize Ecocide, With Prison Sentences of Up to 40 Years Proposed](https://wearenotforsale.org/ecocide/croatia-ecocide-law-40-years-prison/) 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. Aug 28, 2026 Ecocide [Myanmar’s Rare-Earth Mining Boom Exposes the Link Between Forced Labor and Ecocide](https://wearenotforsale.org/ecocide/myanmar-rare-earth-mining-forced-labor-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. Aug 27, 2026 Social Innovation [Thai Flooding: Kru Nam is back on the road](https://wearenotforsale.org/ecocide/thai-flooding-kru-nam-back-on-the-road/) Kru Nam and her team will be back on the road by the time this reaches you. Aug 17, 2026 Human Trafficking [International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition 2026: Why August 23 Is a Day of Resistance](https://wearenotforsale.org/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. Aug 15, 2026 Human Trafficking [A Gift to Traffickers: Sex Trafficking Cases Hit 16-Year Low](https://wearenotforsale.org/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. Dec 18, 2025 Social Innovation [A New Chapter](https://wearenotforsale.org/social-innovation/a-new-chapter/) Not For Sale has never worked from a fixed playbook. 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