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Ending Global Slavery: Everyday Heroes Leading the Way

Our judges selected these 15 finalists. Now it' s your turn - vote for three by clicking on three of the boxes in the "Winner" column below and pressing the "Submit" button. You must cast exactly 3 votes or your votes will not be counted.
Enter by: Jun 18, 2008 | Voting begins: Jul 23, 2008 | Winners Announced: Aug 6, 2008

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The voting period is now active. Vote for your top 3 innovations now. JoinHumanity United and Ashoka's Changemakers invite you to read and comment on the innovative approaches to exposing, confronting and ending modern-day slavery.

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FinalistCountry of origin
Combating Child Labor through Fair Trade in West Africa
TransFair USA		United States
A Business Solution to Fighting Slavery
The Emancipation Network		United States
“Making slave labor a bad business option”
REPÓRTER BRASIL		Brazil
Empowering bonded labourers, landless agricultural workers, dalits and adivasis to eradicate bonded labour.
Vimukti Trust		India
Justice Beyond Borders: Portable Justice for Global Workers
Global Workers Justice Alliance		United States
Carpets for Communities - Empowering poor mothers to free their chilren through connecting them with market opportunities
Carpets for Communities		Cambodia
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
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
Weaving a Global Society Free of Child Labor
RugMark USA		United States
LEGAL LIBERATION: Freeing Slaves through the Law
Volunteers for Social Justice		India
Creative Partnerships against Human Trafficking
Visayan Forum Foundation, Inc.		Philippines
Paths of protection: prevention of sexual exploitation of children and teenagers in Brazilian highways through corporate mobiliz
RESPOSTA		Brazil
for the dignity of women in domestic work
national Domestic Workers' Movement		India
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
Freeing Nepali Girls From Indentured Servitude
Nepalese Youth Opportunity Foundation		United States




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