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...
Are the clothes you're wearing tainted with child slavery? The answer could be yes, considering that Uzbekistan is the third top exporter—and sixth top producer—of cotton in the world. There is evidence that in the Uzbek cotton industry, children are pulled out of...
Join the Freedom Project! Here's how: Download and print the Free the Slaves signs here and here. Snap a photo of yourself holding the signs up Upload the photo on our Facebook wall Make it your Facebook profile pic Voila! You've helped spread the word. And keep your...
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: A few months ago, Marti MacGibbon sent us a copy of her memoir, 'Never Give in to Fear.' In one section of the book, she recounts her experience being trafficked from the U.S. to Tokyo, where she was forced into the sex trade. After a long road to...
Here is a photo our web guru Andrew Taylor snapped the other day. If I am not mistaken, this could be some subliminal advertising for the FTS blog! Or just some random graffiti... We love getting photos from YOU! Take a creative photo of the word "Free," send it to...
In our research, Free The Slaves (FTS) has observed communities formerly in ruins because of slavery and trafficking, stand up and begin to experience freedom. With freedom, exponential improvements in social and economic development along with women’s empowerment...
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Photo by Carrie Cox. (Thanks Carrie!) If you want to share your "FREE" photo with the world, send it to us. We'll post a new photo every Friday.
"In examining [modern day slavery], we not only see the incredible human rights abuses inflicted on these individuals but also realize that European and American consumers would likely have no idea that what they were eating was tainted by slave labor. Similarly,...
We're getting to this rather late. But yesterday, the internet was all a-twitter with the news that elusive street artist Banksy story boarded and directed the opening segment of The Simpsons—with subversive results. The segment depicts slave and child labor, and...
Photo by Jean Derby—anti-slavery activist and clothes and accessory seamstress. You can buy her creations here. A portion of her proceeds go to Free the Slaves (thanks Jean!) If you want to share your “FREE” photo with the world, send it to us. We’ll post a new photo...
Modern day slavery seems to be a hot topic for television shows these days. The season premiers of both Hawaii Five-0 and NCIS: Los Angeles were about human trafficking. And tonight, Law & Order: SVU will be airing an episode called "Merchandise," about a teenaged...
A few weeks ago financial mogul and philanthropist George Soros made the largest commitment supporting human rights in world history. Soros’ $100 million dollar matching gift—$10,000,000 a year for ten years—is contingent upon Human Rights Watch’s ability to raise an...
Artists Against Slavery is a sub-blog of the FTSblog. This is where we highlight the work being done by artists and other creative professionals to raise awareness about modern-day slavery. Go here to find out more about how you can Be the Change and become part of...
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SCIENCE MAY EXPLAIN HOW THE RED SEA PARTED FOR MOSES, AS HE LED THE ISRAELITES OUT OF SLAVERY AOL News: Holy Moses! Science May Explain Parting of Waters: "Using computer models, [researches at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder,...
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This is the second of three case studies, written back in July, on the work of Friends of Orphans (FRO), our partner organization in Uganda. FRO founder Anywar Ricky Richard was the recipient of the annual Harriet Tubman Freedom Award. Read the first dispatch here....
"Today slaves are cheaper than they have ever been. The enslaved fieldworker who cost the equivalent of $40,000 in 1850 costs less than $100 today. "... In India today you can still buy slaves as well as farmland and oxen, which remain the essential 'tractors' that...
This photo was taken exclusively for Free the Slaves by Beth Iyamen, a contributor to Power of Observation blog. Thanks so much for your support! If you want to share your "FREE" photo with the world, send it to us. We'll post a new photo every Friday.
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The world is full of Freedom Fests! Last Friday and Saturday Luc and the Lovingtons, a Seattle based band used their reggae funk beats to get people in LA and San Diego dancing for a cause. After spending the weekend with these amazing individuals I experienced a deep...
We have an update from Binod Chapagain, Director of Free the Slaves' Nepal office. Two case studies show how Nepalese women are bought and sold and sent all over the world to be used as slaves, trafficked multiple times, into different countries. Watch video of FTS'...
Here is Sheryl Wudunn's TED talk about oppression of women around the world. Women are over half of the world's population. Wudunn says that by not allowing them (us) to take part in greater society and actively be "part of the solution," we are wasting our most...
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The Democratic Republic of the Congo is one of the deadliest spots in the poorest continent on earth. Millions have died during the conflict between warring rebel militias and the national army. At stake: vast mineral wealth and control of slaves who are forced to...
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"A lot of people go abroad for work. And a lot of people get trafficked into a circus." Our partner in Nepal, WOSCC (The Women Skill Creation Centre) creates jobs and nurtures local industry so women can be self sufficient—and not fall prey to traffickers, as they...
"Yes, twenty-seven million in slavery is a lot of people, but it is just .0043 percent of the world's population. Yes, $23 billion a year in slave-made products as services is a lot of money but it is exactly what Americans spent on Valentine's Day in 2005. If humans...
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This is the first of three case studies, written back in July, on the work of Friends of Orphans (FRO), our partner organization in Uganda. FRO founder Anywar Ricky Richard was the recipient of the annual Harriet Tubman Freedom Award. Abducted in 1998 as a young girl,...
We love to see this stuff! We just got a message from our friend Emily Greener from I Am That Girl: a photo of herself in Peru, on top of Machu Picchu—wearing our Slavery Sucks t-shirt! With the caption "I hiked all the way to Machu Picchu telling the world that...
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Free the Slaves is the creator of the world's largest free video library on slavery. You can stream some of our films here. In producing this library, we have documented numerous stories of survival, through interviews. We have made several transcriptions of these...
Photo by Tristan Prettyman If you want to share your "FREE" photo with the world, send it to us. We'll post a new photo every Friday.
Sina Vann walks into her worst nightmare every day. For more than two years she was tortured and raped as a sex slave in Phnom Penh. She now goes back to the brothels to help sex slaves escape, and to provide health advice for those unable to break free. Last year,...
A hunger strike to end slavery? That is (sort of) what a professor at St. Edward's University in Austin, TX will be doing this fall. Kay Burrough is embarking on what she calls the Slave Diet in conjunction with a workshop she will be co-teaching on modern day...
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