by Terry FitzPatrick | Aug 16, 2013 | FTS Updates
There are many words around the world for slaves and slavery. In Finland, the word is orjat. And it’s on the cover of the FTS book Ending Slavery, which is now available in Finnish. In Ending Slavery, FTS Co-founder Kevin Bales outlines what’s needed to eradicate...
by Free the Slaves | Jan 30, 2013 | Take Action
There are reasons young people end up in slavery today. We’re all vulnerable to harm, one way or another, at one point or another. Traffickers spot these weaknesses, and pounce when they see an opening. The campus video channel mtvU has just launched an amazing social...
by Terry FitzPatrick | Sep 25, 2012 | FTS Updates, Take Action
President Barack Obama is scheduled to speak about slavery at noon ET today, at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York. You can watch live here or here. Administration officials have been asking anti-slavery activists for several months if there is more that the...
by Free the Slaves | May 4, 2011 | FTS Updates
Kevin Bales, president of Free The Slaves, has been awarded the 2011 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order. Bales earned the prize for his blueprint to eliminate modern slavery, as presented in his 2007 book, Ending Slavery: How We...
by Terry FitzPatrick | Nov 30, 2010 | FTS Updates
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – A blueprint for eliminating modern slavery has earned its creator the 2011 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order. Kevin Bales, president of Free the Slaves, a human rights organization based in Washington, D.C.,...
