The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), leading the fight against forced labour in United States agriculture, is being presented with the 2007 Anti-Slavery Award from Anti-Slavery International, the world’s oldest international human rights organisation. CIW was founded in 1993, has helped free over a thousand workers held in debt bondage, and is currently calling on Burger King to end sweatshop conditions on US farms. Felicity Lawrence will give CIW the award on 21 November at the TUC in London, where Shahid Malik MP of DFID will also receive 49,480 signatures in the Fight For Freedom campaign on the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade.

http://www.antislavery.org/archive/press/latestpressrelease.htm
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