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FNUSA Recognizes Passage of Law Providing Limited Criminal Record Relief for Human Trafficking Survivors
For over 10 years, FNUSA and its members have advocated for the passage of a comprehensive federal law to allow human trafficking survivors to clear criminal records related to their trafficking experience. On January 23, 2026, the Trafficking Survivors Relief…
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FNUSA Celebrates Success as DOJ Releases Long-Delayed TVPA Funding Opportunities and Expresses Concern about Problematic Language
On December 30, 2025, the US Department of Justice released Notices of Funding Opportunities for victims of trafficking grants, 90 days after the grant terms should have begun on October 1, 2025. Due to this delay, over 5,000 survivors of…
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Lawyers’ Committee Sues Trump Administration Over Anti-DEI Executive Orders on Behalf of Anti-Human Trafficking Organization
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Freedom Network USA (FNUSA) filed a lawsuit against the Trump Administration, challenging executive orders that severely restrict and chill Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives and jeopardize the future of its work to protect and advocate for human trafficking survivors.…
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Announcing Freedom Network USA’s New Co-Executive Director
The Freedom Network USA Board of Directors is thrilled to announce the promotion of Karen Romero to Co-Executive Director of the FNUSA. She will serve in partnership with Jean Bruggeman, who has served as Executive Director for the past 10…
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Why FNUSA Prioritizes Non-Carceral Approaches to Addressing Human Trafficking
At FNUSA, we are committed to building a transformative approach to human trafficking, grounded in anti-racism and anti-oppression. In recent years, we have grappled with the impacts of the anti-trafficking movement being so closely tied to law enforcement, as survivors…
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Public Safety Starts with a Place to Call Home
Housing is one of our most basic human needs. Yet our government’s response to the absence of housing is to criminalize and displace the people who lack it, instead of addressing why they do not have it in the first…
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Freedom Network USA Announces Four-Day Work Week Trial
Freedom Network USA is excited to announce the implementation of a four-day work week trial beginning June 1, 2025. As an organization committed to creating a workplace that is equitable, people-first, and promotes intentional productivity, we are taking this step…
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FNUSA’s Statement on Funding Cuts to Lifesaving Victim Services Programs
This week, the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs cancelled numerous grants that serve survivors of crime without notice. These programs are essential to ensuring victims of trafficking, domestic violence, sexual assault, elder abuse, and hate crimes can access…
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FNUSA Starts Emergency Survivor Relief Fund
In May 2020, Freedom Network USA (FNUSA) established a fund to help human trafficking survivors in the time of COVID. The FNUSA Human Trafficking Survivor Relief Fund provides emergency financial assistance to survivors who have been negatively impacted by…
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Database Established: Legal Advocacy Resources for Human Trafficking Victims
Freedom Network member organization Advocating Opportunity has aligned with various expert organizations in justice and law to form the national Vacatur & Expungement Database. Advocating Opportunity provides legal services and whole person advocacy for human trafficking victims. The database provides…
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FN Member Org Safe Horizon Contributes to Huff Post
Ariel Zwang, the CEO of Freedom Network member organization Safe Horizon, has become a regular contributor to the HuffPost media site, sharing her expertise on human trafficking initiatives. Her most recently published article is entitled In Counting the Homeless This…
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Last Chance for Early Bird Rate for the 13th Annual Conference
This is the last chance to register at the early bird rate for the 13th Annual Freedom Network Conference. This year’s conference entitled, “TVPA Past, Present & Future: Elevating the “Human” in Human Trafficking,” will reflect on the successes of…
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CIW accepts Presidential Award
Freedom Network member, Coalition of Immokalee Workers accepted the Presidential Award for Extraordinary Efforts To Combating Trafficking in Persons today. Secretary of State, John Kerry, presented the organization the award at the White House Forum on Combating Human Trafficking in Supply…