Tina Frundt has always believed in the power of creative thinking -- it helped her survive sex trafficking and become a grassroots anti-slavery leader. Her creativity has recently caught the media spotlight, allowing Tina an opportunity to show a global audience that...
Last year's recipient of the Fredrick Douglass Freedom Award, activist Tina Frundt, made headlines when she returned to Cleveland—the place she had been trafficked into sex slavery when she was just a teenager. Frundt has been active in the fight against the...
Kate Rosin, who assists Free the Slaves at our Washington, D.C. headquarters and frequently contributes to this blog, recently wrote a beautiful article for SGI Quarterly, about 2010 Freedom Award winner Tina Frundt. Here's an excerpt: Tina Frundt was 13 when she...
Craigslist representatives testified at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on sex trafficking of minors this morning. It was the first time the website made a detailed public statement about the recent take down of their "Adult Services" ads. Craigslist removed these...
Tina Frundt is a survivor of childhood sex trafficking, right here in the U.S. Now, through her organization Courtney's House, she dedicates her life to helping others out of sex slavery. For her work in guiding people to freedom, Free the Slaves has awarded her the...
Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton recalled the formative days of the modern anti-slavery movement, and called for a "Decade of Determination" to end modern slavery as we observe the 20th anniversary of the U.N. Palermo Protocol and the U.S....
Human rights activists from around the globe strategized new ways to confront the widespread problem of human trafficking and modern slavery during a special three-day convening at the U.N. Conference Center last week in Addis Ababa. Experts from 46 organizations in...
Members of the U.S. Advisory Council on Human Trafficking ended their two-year term of service this afternoon with a plea to Ivanka Trump’s trafficking adviser to get their successors appointed, and provide stipends so they can serve without struggling financially....
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Women are at the core of the modern abolitionist movement, and can help end slavery by working together. That's the key takeaway from the Women Ending Slavery Spreecast, which is now available online. The hour-long discussion unfolded last Friday to celebrate...
The global celebration of International Women's Day on Saturday, March 8th serves as both a reminder of how far we've come and how far we still have to go. Today, women are at the forefront of the global abolition movement. But unfortunately, women and girls represent...
Last Saturday, I was standing on hallowed ground. As I rose to speak to hundreds of people gathered for a benefit concert at Plymouth Church in Brooklyn, I had to take a deep breath. That’s because on that very spot, 150 years ago, anti-slavery activists were...
Brooklyn hosts two important anti-slavery events next weekend that will shine a light on trafficking and the innovative methods FTS has developed to fight it. SATURDAY, JANUARY 11: Plymouth Church will be hosting a benefit concert for Free the Slaves. Join an...
It’s like a perfect storm. Events are converging from every direction. If you’re eager to learn about modern slavery and how it can be eradicated, now’s the time. Tuesday features a special 30-min webcast premiere and live chat event to address a critical question:...
Shamere McKenzie is an American survivor of modern-day slavery. She gave a stirring speech at the 2010 Freedom Awards, in support of her friend and mentor Tina Frundt (a survivor of child sex trafficking, who won the Fredrick Douglass award for her tireless activism...
Because it deserves more attention—and I didn't give it its proper due when I blogged about this last week—I'd like to put a magnifying glass to a couple of quotes from Free the Slaves' Director of Programs Karen Stauss that were featured in Vanity Fair's recent...
Last month, Vanity Fair published a major investigative story on modern-day slavery in the U.S. 'Sex Trafficking of Americans: The Girls Next Door' takes a look at domestic sex slavery—an illicit industry that preys on every-younger girls and boys (the average age...
Next Saturday, March 5, Free the Slaves Deputy Communications Director Terry Fitzpatrick will be speaking at the Seaside Center for Spiritual Living in Encinitas, California as part of their Season of Non-Violence. Terry—an award-winning filmmaker who is also the...
We are excited to announce that our friends at the Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking—an L.A.-based anti-slavery organization that gives legal advocacy, shelter, and other direct services to survivors of modern-day slavery—are holding the annual 'From...
Last weekend, Halogen TV premiered the 2010 Freedom Awards. We live tweeted and watched the broadcast along with the rest of you—it was just as inspiring and exciting to relive as it was to experience first hand. (I got to see what I looked like on camera, as I...
Our friends at the Superforest Blog have written a wonderful article on 2010 Freedom Award winner JEEVIKA! This is the first in a four part series of blog posts, profiling all four 2010 awardees: JEEVIKA, Tina Frundt, Roger Plant, and (yours truly) Anne Keehn. Here's...
Editor’s note: Alison Leuchtenburg, outreach intern at Free the Slaves was leader of Team Free the Slaves for the Stop Modern Slavery Walk this past Saturday. Below is her report from the event: Congratulations to our partner DC Stop Modern Slavery for organizing a...
Ambassador Luis CdeBaca, who heads the State Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Human Trafficking has been called America's "Human Trafficking Czar." As a federal prosecutor, CdeBaca was lead council in what was the biggest human trafficking case on U.S. soil....
Last night the entire hour of Larry King Live was given over to modern day slavery. And we were excited to see that in his interviews, King quoted generously from Free the Slaves research. He used our website (FreetheSlaves.net) as the source for some of the facts and...
Last night, the Law & Order: SVU episode about modern day slavery aired. The story focused on the uncovering of a human trafficking ring that forced American children into hard labor and sex slavery. The episode showed how these heinous crimes can be hidden in...
Another modern day slavery case has happened just stones throw away from the Free the Slaves west coast office. Hawthorne, CA man Leroy Bragg, 34 was arrested last week and charged with human trafficking, soliciting a minor, and pandering and procuring of a minor,...
Modern day slavery is the human rights issue of our time. It's not just a foreign issue—slavery happens right here, in the U.S. Thousands are trafficked into the country every year, and countless more are trafficked within the U.S. Take a stand against this egregious...
Blogging and anti-slavery come together as one! Via PR Web: First annual bloggers soiree to benefit anti-sex trafficking organization: "Bloggers and anti-human trafficking advocates will take over the Lower East Side Monday, September 27 at Libation NY for the First...
Craigslist has been allowing the advertisement of children for commercial sex around the world, including in the United States, for years. I used to work at Polaris Project, a major domestic anti-trafficking organization where I had clients, young American girls,...
Under a barrage of media scrutiny and accusations of facilitating sex trafficking, Craigslist quietly took down the adult services section of their website last week. Other than emblazoning a bold "censored" bar over the adult services link on their website—which they...
Grammy-winning singer Jason Mraz to perform live at Freedom Awards and Freedom Rocks Jason says Free the Slaves “kick-started my heart.” He came with us to see slavery in Africa and meet child slavery survivors. You can see him perform the inspiring song, “Freedom,”...
Details: The King of Hollywood Philanthropy: "A Hollywood philanthropy consultant, [Trevor Neilson] pairs celebrities with causes and helps them transform from the world's biggest stars into its most responsible citizens, one photo op at a time. "For fees upward of...