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Ending Global Slavery: Everyday Heroes Leading the Way

Announcing the winners:

Enter by: Jun 18, 2008 | Voting begins: Jul 23, 2008 | Winners Announced: Aug 6, 2008

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Ashoka's Changemakers, in partnership with Humanity United, is proud to announce the winners for the “Ending Global Slavery” competition. The three winners will each receive a prize of US $5,000.

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Winners announced below

WinnerCountry of origin
A Business Solution to Fighting Slavery
The Emancipation Network		United States
Carpets for Communities - Empowering poor mothers to free their chilren through connecting them with market opportunities
Carpets for Communities		Cambodia
Empowering the travel industry to prevent child sex tourism. (TheCode.org)
TheCode (Code of Conduct for the Protection of Children from Sexual Exploitation in Travel&Tourism)		United States



FinalistCountry of origin
“Making slave labor a bad business option”
REPÓRTER BRASIL		Brazil
Get it Dude, “Masculinity, Sexual Initiation and Prostitution Consume”.
Regional Coalition Against Trafficking in Women and Girls in Latin America and the Caribbean (CATWLAC)		Mexico
Child labor in Garbage dump - Proyecto P.E.T.I.S.O.S. (Prevención y Erradicación de Trabajo Infantil S.O.S.)
Fundación Gente Nueva		Argentina
Creative Partnerships against Human Trafficking
Visayan Forum Foundation, Inc.		Philippines
for the dignity of women in domestic work
national Domestic Workers' Movement		India
Weaving a Global Society Free of Child Labor
RugMark USA		United States
Combating Child Labor through Fair Trade in West Africa
TransFair USA		United States
Paths of protection: prevention of sexual exploitation of children and teenagers in Brazilian highways through corporate mobiliz
RESPOSTA		Brazil
Justice Beyond Borders: Portable Justice for Global Workers
Global Workers Justice Alliance		United States
Freeing Nepali Girls From Indentured Servitude
Nepalese Youth Opportunity Foundation		United States
LEGAL LIBERATION: Freeing Slaves through the Law
Volunteers for Social Justice		India
Empowering bonded labourers, landless agricultural workers, dalits and adivasis to eradicate bonded labour.
Vimukti Trust		India




Resources for this competition

Framework for this competition
Mosaic of innovative solutionsOutlines key barriers & trends in the field
Assessment and criteria guideline Criterios de Selección y cronograma
Library resources for this competitionAdditional documents and links
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  Media Center News, events, programs, multimedia and contacts
  Recent news stories:

The Countertraffickers, The New Yorker 5/5/08
  When Sex Is a Business, You Can't Forget About Demand, Huffington Post 3/25/08
  State must protect sex-trade victims, Times Union 3/24/08
  The Pimps’ Slaves, New York Times 3/16/08
  Do as He Said, New York Times 3/13/08
  Indian workers in US allege human trafficking, Times of India 3/7/08
  The Wrong Target, New York Times 2/19/08


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