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Three trafficking survivors in Bihar win their case after 4-year legal struggle

by Free the Slaves | Jun 8, 2011 | FTS Updates, India

Free the Slaves and its local partner in India just helped three survivors of sex trafficking to gain a legal victory against their three traffickers, now sentenced to 10 years in jail.  In an unusual step, the judge also awarded half of their fine of approximately...

FTS Update: 11 Bonded Laborers Freed in Northern India

by Free the Slaves | Apr 11, 2011 | FTS Updates, India

Supriya Awasthi, FTS’ South Asia Director, and our local Indian partner, DDWS, have successfully secured the release of eleven bonded laborers, toiling, without pay, on the sugar cane fields of western Uttar Pradesh (U.P.), northern India. Whilst surveying the work of...

Bihar, India: Bonded Laborers in Transit are Slaves

by Free the Slaves | Jan 10, 2011 | FTS Updates, India

Despite the fact that slavery is illegal, modern day slavery thrives in many parts of India. There are millions of bonded labor slaves in the sub-continent. Most of these are Dalits—people of the so-called “untouchable” caste—who are saddled with bogus...

Update on FTS Work in Northern India: All in One Voice Say Their Life Has Changed

by Free the Slaves | Dec 15, 2010 | FTS Updates, India

In north India, Free the Slaves partner Diocesan Development and Welfare Society (DDWS) rescues men, women and children from slavery. Some of the rescued children need shelter and rehabilitation, which is provided through the Bal Vikas Ashram, where survivors are...

Can We Measure How ‘Free’ a Community Is?

by Free the Slaves | Nov 19, 2010 | FTS Updates, Uncategorized

In our research, Free The Slaves (FTS) has observed communities formerly in ruins because of slavery and trafficking, stand up and begin to experience freedom. With freedom, exponential improvements in social and economic development along with women’s empowerment...

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