by Free the Slaves | Oct 1, 2010 | FTS Updates
Washington, D.C.—At a hearing held by the House Foreign Affairs Committee yesterday, the State Department’s anti-trafficking Ambassador Luis CdeBaca recommended that slavery eradication efforts take a more victim centered approach. Survivors of modern day slavery...
by Free the Slaves | Sep 24, 2010 | Slavery in the News
Yesterday, Free the Slaves Policy and Research Associate Jody Sarich and I attended a congressional hearing on North Korean human rights violations, in which several NK defectors described being trafficked into forced marriages in China, and repatriated back to NK,...
by Free the Slaves | Sep 22, 2010 | Slavery in the News
Asia One News: China’s gender gap fueling trafficking: “The gender gap has created a situation where there are not enough women of marrying-age for China’s single men…Chinese police have so far freed 10,621 kidnapped women and 5,896 kidnapped...
by Free the Slaves | Sep 1, 2010 | Slavery in the News
UN LAUNCHES FUND TO ASSIST SLAVERY SURVIVORS UN Announces “Global Plan of Action Against Trafficking in Persons.” Ten years ago, the UN General Assembly first officially recognized the need to combat human trafficking by implementing the Protocol to...
by Free the Slaves | Aug 24, 2010 | Slavery in the News
Associated Press: Donald Tump files suit claiming copyright infringement by a Lithuanian “Mrs. Universe” pageant. “One of the main thrusts of the Lithuanian pageant was awareness of human trafficking, which continues to plague many East European...
