by Free the Slaves | Oct 27, 2010 | Slavery in the News
StoptheTraffik: Children found enslaved on Worcester, U.K. farm: “Following a police raid on a farm in Worcestershire last week, 7 Romanian children between the ages of 9 and 15 were found picking spring onions. These children were working daily from 7.30am...
by Free the Slaves | Oct 21, 2010 | Slavery in the News
FOX News: Women for Sale in Tel Aviv: At a shopping mall in Tel Aviv, Israel, anti-slavery activists stage a fake slave auction: “She’s blonde. Petite. Blue-eyed with delicate features.’Sophia,’ 30, was just one of fifteen women up for sale in...
by Free the Slaves | Oct 4, 2010 | Slavery in the News
New York Post: Accused St. John’s embezzler allegedly used students as slaves. Cecilia Chang, former Dean of Asian Studies at St. John’s University in New York is “accused of using scholarship students as domestic servants. Chang, 57, allegedly...
by Free the Slaves | Aug 4, 2010 | Slavery in the News
Today on CNN, Free the Slaves board member Siddharth Kara reports on evidence of slavery in Bangladesh’s shrimp processing industry. The Bangladeshi shrimp industry yielded $550 last year, with the majority of its product going overseas—half goes to the EU, and...
