by Terry FitzPatrick | May 8, 2015 | Artists Against Slavery, Congo, FTS Model for Freedom, FTS Updates
Imagine this scene in remote town in the Congo. A van pulls up and workers jump out to erect a giant screen. At sunset, a movie starts to play in the village square. In a community without electricity, people gather to watch the spectacle, transfixed by a story on the...
by Terry FitzPatrick | Mar 3, 2015 | Advocacy, Congo
Free the Slaves joined 22 other organizations this week urging U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to appoint a new special envoy for Africa’s Great Lakes region and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The U.S. “has played an increasingly central role in...
by Free the Slaves | Dec 4, 2014 | FTS Updates
Free the Slaves is pleased to announce that Crispin Baderha is our new country director in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He’s already at work in Goma, leading our program to confront labor and sex slavery in mining communities, as well as forced marriage...
by Terry FitzPatrick | Jul 24, 2013 | Congo, Slavery in the News, Take Action
A U.S. federal court judge has rejected efforts by three leading business associations to block new rules that require American manufacturers to disclose if their products contain slavery-tainted minerals from central Africa. Judge Robert Wilkins of the U.S. District...
by Terry FitzPatrick | Jun 29, 2013 | Uncategorized
There are few things more fundamental in life than marriage. It is the foundation of family. It provides legal and cultural structure for society. There is growing recognition, however, that for many women and girls in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC or...
