Pasos Libres’ CEO participated in the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) on trafficking in persons. The CEO of Pasos Libres, Sebastián Arévalo Sánchez, participated in the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) on human trafficking of the United States Department of State from August 19 to September 9, 2023. Sebastián was part of a group of…
Accelerating Peace: The new Pasos Libres program that seeks to accelerate peacebuilding initiatives in Colombia On October 28, the first Cohort of Young Peacebuilders successfully concluded Accelerating Peace, a new Pasos Libres program funded by the U.S. Embassy that seeks to contribute to accelerating the growth of initiatives of young peacebuilders in Colombia by strengthening…
Pasos Libres participated in the first Tech Against Trafficking Summit On September 27-28, Pasos Libres participated in the first Tech Against Trafficking Summit in Seattle, United States. The event organized by Amazon and BSR brought together over 160 global leaders that fight against modern slavery, including businesses, survivors and activists, governments, investors, and civil society,…
Freedom Makers: The academy that educates on modern slavery and supply chains It is estimated that 17.3 million people are victims of modern slavery in the supply chains of multiple industries in the formal and informal economies worldwide. Additionally, many companies in Latin America do not report specific information about modern slavery risk management nor…
Trafficking in Persons Report 2022 of the US Department of State reflects a challenging panorama in Colombia. Last Tuesday, July 19, the United States Department of State published the 2022 Trafficking in Persons Report. The document, published annually, evaluated the performance of 188 countries and territories worldwide regarding the prevention, protection of victims, and fight…
Pasos Libres’ technological innovation competition “DataJam Pasos Libres” was awarded an honorable mention at the National Contest of Good Practices for Addressing Child Sexual Exploitation organized by the Colombian Institute of Family Welfare, the Organization of Ibero-American States, and the Colombian Ministry of Labor. The contest was held to commemorate the third year of implementation…
Pasos Libres and Chainbreaker selected for a six-month Acceleration Program against Modern Slavery Together with 17 organizations from Canada, Chile, India, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Portugal, Spain, the UK, and the US, Pasos Libres was selected to participate in the first edition of FAROL with the DataJam Pasos Libres 2020 winning solution: ChainBreaker. FAROL is a…
DATAJAM PASOS LIBRES 2021: FORCED LABOUR IN SUPPLY CHAINS It has been four years since Pasos Libres implemented the first DataJam Pasos Libres in partnership with IBM and the support of the United Nations guided for the vision of creating an innovation competition where young people and experts from diverse domains could learn, collaborate and…
PASOS LIBRES’ FOUNDERS WROTE FOR ARCHIWUM KRYMINOLOGII, THE MOST PRESTIGIOUS POLISH CRIMINOLOGICAL JOURNAL Pasos Libres’ founders Sebastián Arévalo Sánchez and Juan Pablo García Sepúlveda and professor John Winterdyk from Mount Royal University wrote an article “Using design thinking and innovation camps to combat forced labour: A case example” for the Special Issue on Forced Labor…
PASOS LIBRES TOOK ITS INNOVATION COMPETITION FORMAT AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING TO CANADA The anti-trafficking technological innovation competition format created by Pasos Libres was successfully implemented in the first nation-wide technological innovation competition to combat human trafficking in Canada: the DataJam Against Exploitation. The competition funded by the Government of Canada and organized by the United…