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Clear, plain-language answers to the big questions about modern-day slavery, ecocide, and the work to end them. Search, filter, and follow the threads.

Human Trafficking

What is human trafficking?

Human trafficking is the use of force, fraud, or coercion to compel people into labor, sexual services, or other forms of servitude.…

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Human Trafficking

What is modern-day slavery?

Modern-day slavery is an umbrella term covering all practices in which people are controlled, coerced, or deceived into work or servitude they…

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Human Trafficking

What are the main types of human trafficking?

The most documented forms of human trafficking are sex trafficking, forced labor, and domestic servitude, but trafficking takes many forms, including organ…

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Social Innovation

What is social innovation?

Social innovation means solving deep social and environmental problems through new thinking, new structures, and new alliances, across any sector or community.…

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Social Innovation

How does social innovation fight human trafficking and ecocide?

Modern-day slavery and ecocide thrive where poverty deepens, opportunity disappears, and ecosystems collapse. Social innovation targets those conditions directly. Building economic alternatives,…

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Social Innovation

Why is social innovation important for sustainable change?

Temporary fixes leave the system intact. Social innovation targets the conditions that produce modern-day slavery and ecocide in the first place, rebuilding…

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Ecocide

What is ecocide?

Ecocide is the widespread, severe, or long-term destruction of ecosystems, often for economic or political gain, so significant that the ability of…

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Ecocide

How does ecocide affect people as well as nature?

Ecocide does not just damage the natural world. It destroys livelihoods, forces displacement, deepens poverty, and intensifies the vulnerability that traffickers exploit.…

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Ecocide

Where is ecocide happening today?

Ecocide is happening now, across every continent. Illegal gold mining is poisoning rivers in Peru's Amazon. Cobalt extraction is destroying land in…

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