by Terry FitzPatrick | Dec 5, 2013 | FTS Updates, Ghana, Nepal
The team from Stillmotion has wrapped-up filming for their new documentary, #standwithme. The film’s preview is now available online. You can also sign up now to attend premiere screenings of the film in 30 U.S. cities coast to coast early next year! This...
by Staff | May 28, 2013 | Ghana
Editor’s Note: Early this month, FTS frontline partner group Challenging Heights conducted one of their largest rescue missions ever, targeting 20 villages along 125 miles of shoreline on Lake Volta, looking for Ghanaian children reported to be enslaved on fishing...
by Free the Slaves | Oct 29, 2012 | Haiti
Editor’s note: FTS Programs Director Karen Stauss rode out Hurricane Sandy last week while working in Haiti. I just drove past these words, painted haphazardly in French onto the side of a whitewashed wall: “Together let’s build Haiti. And rebuild it.” Was that irony?...
by Free the Slaves | Feb 18, 2011 | Slavery in the News
Here’s a great story about the power of social media. In China, microblogging helped reunite a kidnapped child with his family. Via the BBC: It is estimated that up to 20,000 children in China are kidnapped every year. Some are sold to gangs to be used as...
by Free the Slaves | Oct 29, 2010 | Slavery in the News
Yes! Magazine: This Halloween, a new breed of activists is coming to your door: They’re costumed, committed, and about four and a half feet tall: “Emilie, a seventh-grader from North Bend, Wash., was shocked when her best friend, Rachel Donka, told her...
