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The Asia Regional Forum brought together stakeholders from across Asia to discuss the most pressing issues of modern slavery and develop effective solutions. Over two days, the Asia Regional Forum participants considered how to increase collaboration and the development of working partnerships across the region and engage with survivors from the region to learn more about best practices for engaging with survivors and ensuring they are meaningfully included in the planning, program delivery, policy design, and justice activities.

Africa – 2022
Enabling Local Engagements and Global Synergies for Addressing Modern Slavery in Africa

Faciliter les engagements locaux et les synergies mondiales pour lutter contre l’esclavage moderne en Afrique

Latin America Regional Forum – 2022Free the Slaves (FTS) se complace en haber celebrado el Foro Regional de América Latina: Permitiendo Compromisos Locales y Sinergias Globales para Abordar la Esclavitud Moderna. El evento tuvo lugar de forma virtual los días 22 y 23…

The Forum is a living embodiment of the anti-human trafficking and anti-slavery movement, bringing together individuals and groups whose work may not otherwise intersect. The Forum recognizes that the movement itself is only as strong as its members, and one of the essential pillars of the Forum is to convene voices from a plethora of different backgrounds. The Forum has taken great care to increase access and infuse democratization at its very core and, by extension, the movement itself. These notions are the foundation of the reinvention of the 2021 Forum format.

Anti-slavery movement leaders virtually convened via Zoom for 3 days at the first regional Freedom from Slavery Forum-Africa to discuss issues most pertinent to the continent and set priorities for the next year around the theme of “Resilience and Resistance to Modern Slavery: Key Priorities for Africa.”

Anti-slavery movement leaders virtually convened via Zoom for 3 days during the third regional Freedom from Slavery Forum to discuss issues most pertinent to Latin America and set priorities for the next year. This year’s theme was “Resilience and Resistance to Human Trafficking: Key Priorities for Latin America.”

Anti-slavery movement leaders virtually convened via Zoom for two days at the fourth regional Freedom from Slavery Forum – Europe, North America, and the Caribbean to discuss issues most pertinent to the continent and set priorities for the next year around the theme of “Resilience and Resistance to Modern Slavery: Key Priorities for Europe, North America and the Caribbean.”

The 2019 event focused on developing concrete action steps that civil society organizations can take. Participants began with the Bangkok Statement of Principles for civil society groups, governments, unions, and businesses, adopted at the 2018 Forum in Thailand, and mapped out 51 direct steps their groups could take to realize those principles in their area of operations.

The 2017 Freedom from Slavery Forum marked the fifth time this annual event was held and its fourth iteration in this format. The 2017 Forum was sponsored by the Elkes Foundation, with additional support from the Freedom Fund. The Forum took place October 5th through 7th at Stanford University, with the support of Stanford’s WSD HANDA Center for Human Rights and International Justice. The two-and-a-half-day event included off-the-record sessions for leaders of anti-slavery organizations, with one evening dedicated to an open event for interested members of the public.

The 2015 Forum was a two-and-half-day event comprised of two days of private meetings among the anti-slavery experts and a half-day presentation by Martha Mendoza, a Pulitzer Prize-winning AP reporter who has written extensively about slavery and who discussed the intersections of trafficking and ethical journalism.