Shopping Fair Trade and Slave Free this Holiday

Here is a quick list to get your Slave Free and Fair Trade Holiday Shopping Started:

1. • Fair Trade the White House Holiday Gift Guide a full color catalog with gift ideas for everyone on your list!
   • See the Give Fair Trade blog to see the daily featured Fair Trade gift and special offers, as well as the moving story behind the item’s producers. While there you can also take the Fair Trade Holiday Gift Pledge.
   • Fair Trade Federation has an online directory, which will list Fair Trade vendors in your town. They also have two Fair Trade Gift Guides available to help conscious consumers find Fair Trade gifts this holiday season, Fair Trade Federation FTF and Fair Trade USAFTUSA Guide have published separate gift guides.
     
   • Free2Work Watch List is the leading community of citizen investigators that monitors, reports and investigates companies around the world the use slave labor in producing their products.
   • Global Exchange – a membership-based international human rights organization dedicated to promoting social, economic and environmental justice around the world.  Purchase; Clothing, Jewelry, Handbags, Coffee, Chocolate, Bath & Beauty.
   • Sweatfree Communities provides a great shopping guide on where to buy sweatshop-free apparel for men, women, and children.
   • Nightlight International offers intervention to sexually exploited women and children, to provide a program of holistic transformation, empowering them to live and make jewelry in their community.
   • Wonderfully Made Jewelry is designed to create hope for the victims of sex trafficking by providing sustainable jobs producing high quality handicrafts and jewelry.
   • Ten Thousand Villages is one of the world’s oldest and largest fair trade organizations representing the diverse cultures of artisans in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East.  Buy; Jewelry, Home Decor, Baskets, Stationary, Toys & Games, and Musical Instruments.
   • Free the Slaves liberates slaves around the world, helps them rebuild their lives and researches real world solutions to eradicate slavery forever.  Buy;  Clothing, Jewelry, Handbags, Books and paper.
   • Made by Survivors/The Emancipation Network offers handicraft programs to survivors and provides a job that enables them to support themselves and live a meaningful, independent life. Purchase; Jewelry, Bags and wallets,  Handmade paper, Holiday,  Home & gifts, Clothing, Scarves
   • Stop Traffick Fashion is a boutique about restoration and change. Each purchase from Stop Traffick Fashion directly helps the survivors and organizations rescuing and providing rehabilitation to survivors.  Buy; Handbags, Jewelry, Body & bath
   • Equal Exchange Organic’s mission is to build long-term trade partnerships between farmers and consumers and to demonstrate the contribution of worker co-operatives and Fair Trade to a more equitable, democratic and sustainable world.  Purchase; Coffee,  Tea, Chocolate,  Snacks
   • Rishi -Tea sets the standard for quality & expands the awareness of tea and its rich, inspirational tradition. Buy;  Tea, Tea Sets, Tokonami, and Clothing
   • RIJI Green provides economic opportunities for survivors and at risk people of trafficking. Your purchases offer hope for people who were once oppressed and abused for profit.  Purchase; Purses, Felt products,  Journals, Jute bags
   • Goodweave works to end illegal child labor in the carpet industry and to offer educational opportunities to children in South Asia.  Buy your next rug today!
   • Nomi Network is a non-profit organization bridging the private, public, and non-profit sectors through enterprise and education to end human trafficking.‘Buy Her Bag Not Her Body” survivor made totes, laptop bags and more.
   • Fair Trade Sports is the first sports equipment company in North America to launch a full line of Eco + Fair Trade Certified sports balls, ensuring fair wages and healthy working conditions for our adult workers.
   • Bridge to Freedom Foundation supports survivors through research, program development and evaluations, services, and linking the for-profit, academic, and public worlds to the anti-slavery movement. Has unique supporter products.
     
   • Looking for unique gift ideas shop Amnesty, you’ll find many beautifully-crafted items from artisans around the world.
2. While your increasing your knowledge check out some of the following resources;

• Fair Trade and Slave Free Links
• Fair Trade Book List
• Slavery and Trafficking Related Books
• Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Links
• Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery Reports and Publications
• Human Trafficking and Slavery Related Movies and Documentaries
• Human Trafficking Conventions and Laws

By supporting companies who do not profit from labor servitude, you not only ensure that you are purchasing free and fair goods, but are one step closer to helping to end modern slavery. By purchasing Fair Trade, slavery free and survivor made products you are not only doing the ‘right thing’, but you can also use it as an opportunity to educate others, especially children, about human rights issues, such as child labor and modern slavery.