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Not For Sale Fighting one of the greatest issues of our time, human trafficking and modern-day slavery. It sparked a global quest to uncover more on the issue.
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Our 100% model means all individual donations are used for impact not overhead. In 2001, David Batstone, an author, professor and investment banker, found out that his favorite Bay Area restaurant had been the center of an international human trafficking ring. The incident opened his eyes to an even greater reality: slavery was not dead at all. Both the survivors and abolitionists he met inspired Batstone to publish the book “Not For Sale” in 2007, and create an organization under the same name. Today, Not For Sale operates in 8 countries and as of 2017, has served over 20,000 survivors and at-risk individuals.

We had a wonderful evening at Quaglino's for the Not For Sale fundraiser. Thank you to everyone who joined us and donate...
10/20/2026

We had a wonderful evening at Quaglino's for the Not For Sale fundraiser. Thank you to everyone who joined us and donated so generously to support our work to end human trafficking for good.

10/20/2026

A special night at , Mayfair 🧡

Last night, our founder spoke to a room full of people from business and finance about something that sits at the heart of Not For Sale’s work: using business and enterprise to help create lasting change.

David spoke about going upstream. About building livelihoods, incomes and opportunity in communities where exploitation can otherwise take hold. And about the idea that has shaped so much of our work over the years: not simply responding after the damage has been done, but helping create stronger futures before it happens.

He also shared the story of one of the businesses born from that thinking, created to support communities in the Peruvian Amazon facing risks including trafficking, mining and debt bo***ge.

It was brilliant to see so many people in one room thinking seriously about the role business can play in creating change.

A huge thank you to everyone who joined us, supported the evening and continues to support the work of Not For Sale.

And a very special thank you to a long-standing supporter of Not For Sale, for hosting us at the beautiful Quaglino’s, and to his whole team for making the night feel so special.

An inspiring evening, some important conversations, and a reminder of what can happen when good people come together around a shared purpose.

A factory can be inspected for worker exploitation and still leave the people making our clothes afraid to speak. The la...
10/16/2026

A factory can be inspected for worker exploitation and still leave the people making our clothes afraid to speak. The latest reporting on supply chain audits asks why the checks brands rely on can miss what workers experience.

Vogue Business examined the problem on 15 October, drawing attention to Labour Behind the Label’s July investigation into garment factories in Pakistan. Researchers interviewed 255 workers across eight factories supplying international fashion brands. Their accounts included underpayment, excessive working hours and intimidation, exposing a gap between working conditions and what audits captured.

One detail makes that gap clear. Workers reported complaints boxes beneath surveillance cameras. A reporting channel might exist on paper, yet approaching it could feel anything but confidential. Workers also described fears of losing earnings or being dismissed for raising concerns.

The difficulties continued inside the inspection process. Auditors described suppliers coaching workers and manipulating records. They also explained that workers’ testimony could be excluded when supporting documents were unavailable or factory paperwork contradicted their accounts. Someone could describe mistreatment without that experience becoming an official finding.

This matters because social audits help companies assess labour rights risks throughout fashion supply chains. But an inspection provides a limited view, and even an accurate report needs action behind it. Identifying unpaid wages does not put that money into someone’s hands. Recording intimidation does not make speaking up safe.

Meaningful accountability requires independent ways to report concerns, worker and trade union involvement, and support for putting abuses right. Brands must follow through, with workers able to confirm whether conditions have improved. The measure of success should be what changes in people’s lives after the inspection.

At Not For Sale, we believe protection must be judged by workers’ experiences. Swipe through the story and share it to keep those experiences in the conversation.

What does it take for a person to become free, and stay free?Across thousands of years, the answer has depended on who c...
10/09/2026

What does it take for a person to become free, and stay free?

Across thousands of years, the answer has depended on who could own property, who could cross a border, whose testimony mattered and whether refusing work meant punishment. Laws helped determine who held power over another person’s life. Resistance challenged that power.

This timeline brings together 110 defining moments across 20 slides, from early written records of slavery to abolition, international agreements and the exploitation of people through online scam operations. It follows changes in how people were controlled, how those systems were challenged and how protection developed.

The earliest records do not tell us when slavery began. Nor does an abolition date tell us when exploitation ended. Slavery and human trafficking also have distinct meanings: tracing their connections requires attention to the differences between societies, legal systems and periods.

As you move through the slides, watch what happens after the milestones. A trade is prohibited. Slavery is abolished. A treaty is signed. Each can represent an achievement, yet people may still face debt, coercion, exclusion or threats that prevent them from leaving exploitation.

That gap between a right on paper and the ability to exercise it runs through these events. So does the determination of enslaved people, survivors and communities to claim freedom and challenge the institutions that denied it.

For Not For Sale, this is why prevention matters alongside protection: people need safe livelihoods, choices and support that makes freedom sustainable.

Swipe through 20 slides. Look for the breakthroughs, then ask what changed for the people those breakthroughs were meant to protect. The question carries into the present: what would make freedom secure for someone whose choices are constrained?

Save this timeline to revisit, and share it to bring that question into conversations beyond this post.

The person cutting down a tree may be someone who cannot leave.That is the contradiction a picture of deforestation cann...
10/09/2026

The person cutting down a tree may be someone who cannot leave.

That is the contradiction a picture of deforestation cannot explain. We can see the damage and the person doing the work, but not the conditions that brought them there, or the consequences of refusing.

In its research on timber extraction in the Peruvian Amazon, the International Labour Organization documented workers recruited through advances of money or goods that became a means of trapping them in debt. Entire families could be drawn into working to repay what was owed. The study found exploitation was severe in remote, isolated communities.

Under these conditions, someone can be forced to participate in the destruction of a forest while being deprived of their freedom. Holding the chainsaw does not necessarily mean controlling the operation, choosing the work or receiving its profits.

This is how modern-day slavery and environmental destruction can reinforce each other. Coercion supplies labor for destructive operations; isolation makes exploitation harder to detect. Responsibility must be traced beyond the worker to those directing the work and benefiting from it.

Ecocide concerns the gravest environmental harms. A proposed legal definition centers on unlawful or reckless acts undertaken with knowledge that severe, widespread or lasting environmental damage is substantially likely. Not every logging operation meets that threshold, and not every worker is enslaved. Those distinctions matter.

For Not For Sale, protecting people and protecting the planet belong in the same conversation. A response that sees only damaged trees can overlook people who need safety, support and the freedom to earn a living without coercion.

We need to ask whose decisions drive the destruction, whose freedom has been taken and whose interests are being served.

Share this to help others look beyond the damage and recognize the human exploitation that may lie behind it.

The people doing the digging are not always the people making the decisions.Across illegal mining, logging and other ext...
10/06/2026

The people doing the digging are not always the people making the decisions.

Across illegal mining, logging and other extractive industries, workers can be pushed into some of the most destructive environments on Earth while having almost no control over the land, the resources being taken or the money being made from them.

In some places, that exploitation goes much further. Debt bo***ge, coercion, withheld wages, threats and other forms of modern-day slavery can leave people working in dangerous conditions they did not freely choose and cannot easily leave.

The damage does not stop with the worker.

Forests are cleared. Rivers are contaminated. Soil becomes less productive. Fish disappear. Farms fail. Communities lose the land and water they depend on.

And that destruction can create the conditions for further exploitation. When livelihoods collapse, people may be forced to migrate, borrow money, accept dangerous work or depend on recruiters and employers they would otherwise avoid.

This is why human trafficking and environmental destruction cannot always be treated as two separate issues.

The word ecocide is increasingly used to describe severe destruction of the natural environment on a scale so serious that ecosystems and the communities depending on them may be damaged for years or generations. The precise legal definition is still developing internationally, but the idea is simple: some environmental destruction is so extensive that it should be treated as more than ordinary pollution or regulatory failure.

And when that destruction is carried out through exploited labor, the human cost is not incidental to the environmental crime.

It is part of the same system.

First they take the person. Then they take the planet.

The fight against human trafficking did not begin with the laws and language we use today. For centuries, people have ch...
10/06/2026

The fight against human trafficking did not begin with the laws and language we use today. For centuries, people have challenged slavery, forced labor and the systems that allowed human beings to be bought, sold and exploited. This carousel looks at ten people whose actions helped change that history.

Some are famous. Some deserve to be better known.

Harriet Tubman is remembered for guiding around 70 people to freedom through the Underground Railroad, but during the American Civil War she also worked as a nurse, scout and spy and helped lead the Combahee River Raid, which liberated more than 700 enslaved people.

Olaudah Equiano bought his freedom in 1766. His 1789 autobiography became one of the most important books of the British abolition movement, giving readers a first-person account of enslavement and the Atlantic slave trade.

William Wilberforce spent years pushing abolition through Parliament, but the victory was never his alone. The 1807 law followed a mass movement of Black abolitionists, campaigners and petitioners. The Commons backed the bill by 283 votes to 16.

Sojourner Truth fought in court to recover her son after he was illegally sold out of New York. Frederick Douglass used journalism, speeches and books, editing newspapers that gave abolition a public voice. In Brazil, Luiz Gama, illegally enslaved as a child, later used the courts to secure freedom for more than 500 people.

The story continues into the fight against exploitation. Josephine Butler helped establish an international movement against trafficking. Iqbal Masih escaped bonded child labor in Pakistan at ten and became a campaigner before being killed at twelve. Kailash Satyarthi helped turn child labor into a human-rights cause.

Today, the ILO estimates that 50 million people live in modern slavery.

Scroll through their stories. History changes when people refuse to accept exploitation as inevitable.

10/04/2026

Our logo is a sentence. Read it left to right.

Not For Sale stops human trafficking and ecocide.
Breaks the cycle of exploitation.
Empowers the most vulnerable.
Using the tools of social innovation.

We are Not For Sale.
People are not for sale. Neither is the planet.

wearenotforsale.org

No one is free until we are all free
10/04/2026

No one is free until we are all free

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