by Terry FitzPatrick | Nov 30, 2010 | FTS Updates
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – A blueprint for eliminating modern slavery has earned its creator the 2011 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order. Kevin Bales, president of Free the Slaves, a human rights organization based in Washington, D.C.,...
by Free the Slaves | Nov 24, 2010 | FTS Updates
We hope you’ll be enjoying your Thanksgiving feasts tomorrow. We definitely will. We’ll be emerging from our food comas on Monday—when we’ll be back in full force! In the meantime, tell us why SLAVERY SUCKS! Sign our petition urging the SEC t0...
by Free the Slaves | Nov 24, 2010 | FTS Updates, India
We received some exciting news today from India. 2010 Harriet Tubman award winning organization JEEVIKA works in Karnataka, a state in southern India where slavery in the form of bonded labor is prevalent. JEEVIKA’s founder Kiran Prasad works largely with the...
by Free the Slaves | Nov 23, 2010 | FTS Updates
Ghanan reporter Adwoa Yeboah Agyei attended the Freedom Awards earlier this month. Adwoa is a celebrity in Ghana, where she is a radio presenter on popular station Peace FM. She’s assisted Free the Slaves on past Ghana projects—and her reporting work has raised...
by Free the Slaves | Nov 22, 2010 | FTS Updates
Kevin Bales was interviewed on the website LifebyMe.com. The site bills Bales—who is co-founder and President of Free the Slaves—a “Game Changer.” We agree. When Free the Slaves was founded in 2000, most people around the world did not know that slavery...
