by Free the Slaves | Sep 29, 2010 | Slavery in the News
Gloria Allred called a press conference today to announce that California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman knowingly hired an illegal immigrant for nine years. Nicky Diaz Santillan, also present at the press conference, was hired in 2000 to work as a nanny and...
by Terry FitzPatrick | Sep 27, 2010 | FTS Updates
Like tens of thousands of children in Haiti, Cam-Suze was held as a restavek*, a child slave. Her life changed when she met Free the Slaves’ partner, Fondasyon Limyè Lavi. When she was recently asked to contrast her life now with a childhood in slavery she said: “Oh...
by Free the Slaves | Sep 22, 2010 | Slavery in the News
Rugby star Finau Maka is known as a “nice guy,” and for his flamboyant hairdos. A Tonga national, he played in the 2007 Rugby World Cup, and until recently, was a member of the first division French team, Stade Toulousain. Today, he stands before a French...
by Free the Slaves | Sep 2, 2010 | Slavery in the News
It’s hard to believe that it has taken this long, but the first ever extensive domestic workers’ rights measure was signed into law yesterday by New York Governor David Paterson. The measure bestows basic rights to all New York domestic workers—people...
