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Indian Slavery Survivors Start Their Own Brick Kiln

by Terry FitzPatrick | May 19, 2015 | Artists Against Slavery, FTS Model for Freedom, India, Slavery-Free Commerce

Staying free is just as important as breaking free. It’s vital that slavery survivors plan what they will do to earn a living once they are rescued.In the India village of Kukdaha, rescued slaves decided that they would do in freedom exactly what they did in slavery:...

Entire Family Rescued from Brick Kiln Slavery in India

by Terry FitzPatrick | Aug 26, 2014 | FTS Model for Freedom, India

It started with a simple loan to pay for a wedding. It turned into brutal enslavement for an entire family. It wound up as a triumphant victory over bondage, thanks to Free the Slaves and our front line partner group in India, MSEMVS. Five years ago, Jaswant borrowed...

Leader of FTS Partner Group Honored as TIP Report Hero

by Terry FitzPatrick | Jun 20, 2014 | FTS Updates, India

The director of Manav Sansadhan Evam Mahila Vikas Sansthan (MSEMVS) in India, Bhanuja Sharan Lal, Ph.D., has been honored this morning by the U.S. State Department as a global anti-slavery hero in the 2014 Trafficking in Persons report. His team of more than 75 front...

From the Front Lines of Slavery: The Sound of Freedom

by Maurice Middleberg | Oct 30, 2013 | India

Editor’s Note: This is the second of three dispatches we will feature this week written by Free the Slaves Executive Director Maurice Middleberg during his recent trip to India. DATELINE: Varanasi District, Uttar Pradesh State, India In the space of 24 hours we...

Slavery Survivors Paint Messages of Hope to Slaves Still in Bondage

by Staff | Oct 7, 2013 | India

They said it simply, and artistically: Freedom is possible. The artists were slavery survivors in northern India, members of the Federation of Former Slaves, organized by the Free the Slaves frontline partner group MSEMVS. Their mission was to create a gesture of...
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