The Robert F. Kennedy Memorial would like to congratulate our partners, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, for winning the 2007 Anti-Slavery Award from the London-based Anti-Slavery International for their exceptional contribution towards tackling modern-day slavery in the United States agricultural industry.

The award is particularly significant this year, as is comes on the 200th anniversary of Britain's abolition of the transatlantic slave trade. You can read more on the award at the ASI website by clicking on the link below:

http://www.antislavery.org/homepage/antislavery/award/forcedlabourUSA2007.htm

For the past decade, stories of modern-day slavery have come out of Florida's fields with an alarming regularity. The CIW -- with members in tomato fields and citrus groves across the state -- has helped lead the efforts to document and bring these cases to justice. Since 2003, when the RFK Memorial awarded the CIW with the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award, RFK Center for Human Rights has worked in partnership with the farmworkers towards their goals of ending modern-day slavery and the exploitation of migrant workers in the U.S. agricultural industry.

The Robert F. Kennedy Memorial stands with the CIW in their fight for economic justice, accountability and human rights in agricultural and retail food industries.