by Terry FitzPatrick | Oct 4, 2016 | Advocacy, Artists Against Slavery, Congo, FTS Model for Freedom, Thought Leadership
The film’s name is short and straightforward: Hatuko Watumwa, Swahili for We Are Not Slaves. It’s a half-hour fictionalization of how vulnerable villagers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo fall into slavery at mines – at what they can do to escape. FTS and our...
by FTS Board | Sep 27, 2016 | Advocacy, Become an Abolitionist, I Am the Change, Slavery in the News
Last Friday, I flew from my home in Miami to Washington to attend the quarterly board meeting of Free the Slaves, one of the most important anti-slavery organizations in the world today. Coincidently, my parents, who reside in Williamsburg, Virginia, were in...
by Free the Slaves | Aug 23, 2016 | India, Research, Monitoring & Evaluation, Thought Leadership
How do you reach people enslaved in India to inform them that freedom is possible? Call them!Mobile phones are everywhere in India, with 220 million smartphone users throughout the country. Even in rural areas, where access to technology remains low, there is usually...
by Maurice Middleberg | Aug 4, 2016 | Advocacy, FTS Model for Freedom, Slavery-Free Commerce, Students Ending Slavery, Thought Leadership
They typically work in nondescript cubicles in corporate office parks — and they usually aren’t aware that their desks can become the newest front line in the growing global battle against modern slavery. They are the supply chain officers for American companies. And...
by Maurice Middleberg | Aug 3, 2016 | Advocacy, Faith in Action, Thought Leadership
Archbishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and Social Sciences, says his marching orders come from the very top of the Catholic Church.“The Holy Father said: Marcelo, I want you to study this topic carefully so that we know...