by Terry FitzPatrick | Dec 13, 2016 | Advocacy, Congo, FTS Model for Freedom, Slavery in the News, Thought Leadership
Overcoming fear is essential to freedom, and in eastern Congo there is plenty to be frightened about. Millions have died in conflict over the region’s vast mineral wealth. Control of mines and the slaves who work them has turned the region into one of the world’s most...
by Terry FitzPatrick | Oct 25, 2016 | FTS Model for Freedom, India
Sangita is just 15, but she’s seen a lot. Her parents needed to borrow money from a local brick factory owner, who forced Sangita’s entire family into slavery at the kiln to pay off the debt. Now she is free, and her story underscores how the FTS Community Model for...
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 Terry FitzPatrick | Aug 2, 2016 | Advocacy, Become an Abolitionist, Take Action
The Democratic and Republican conventions are over, and the 2016 general election campaign is now underway. Party officials at both conventions included planks on human trafficking in their 2016 platforms. Here’s the official language from each:2016 Democratic Party...
by Terry FitzPatrick | Jul 25, 2016 | FTS Model for Freedom, FTS Updates, Thought Leadership
Nominations are now open for the 2016 Free the Slaves Freedom Awards. Free the Slaves will award a U.S. $10,000 prize to an organization registered India or Nepal that is implementing an innovative “scalable” approach to ending bonded labor in India or Nepal. A...
