by Free the Slaves | Oct 13, 2011 | Take Action
The touch and feel of cotton, especially in Uzbekistan, has gotten rougher. According to reports from Anti-Slavery International (Free the Slaves’ partner organization in the U.K.), hundreds of thousands of students from the age of nine are being forced by...
by Free the Slaves | Feb 2, 2011 | Uncategorized
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...
by Free the Slaves | Jan 21, 2011 | Slavery in the News
CHILD SLAVERY DOCUMENTARY ‘NOT MY LIFE’ PREMIERS IN NEW YORK Earlier this week Not My Life, a documentary on child slavery and exploitation, premiered at Alice Tully Hall at the Lincoln Center in New York. In an interview with UNICEF (a sponsor of the...
