by Free the Slaves | Jun 27, 2011 | Slavery in the News
Last Friday, Free the Slaves President Kevin Bales was interviewed on CNN, talking about modern-day slavery in the United States. He stressed that victims of slavery are often the people we overlook—”the people we tend to treat as if they were almost...
by Free the Slaves | Jun 1, 2011 | Congo, FTS Updates, Slavery in the News
CNN’s year-long Freedom Project continues to churn out great coverage on modern-day slavery. We were excited to see Amanda Kloer’s (editor of Change.org’s Human Trafficking blog) recent article highlighting the importance of the U.S....
by Free the Slaves | Apr 11, 2011 | FTS Updates, Slavery in the News
FTS President Kevin Bales was featured on CNN’s Freedom Project last week, speaking a little bit about how he became an anti-slavery activist. “[Free the Slaves] ultimate goal is to end slavery on the planet,” Bales says. “I know it’s...
by Free the Slaves | Mar 24, 2011 | Uncategorized
Tawney Bevacqua is Free the Slaves’ outreach coordinator. She is also the face of the ‘Artists Against Slavery’ blog—a sub-section of the FTSblog—in which she explores how artists and creative professionals are using their talents to help end...
by Free the Slaves | Mar 11, 2011 | FTS Updates, Slavery in the News
The third installment of CNN’s series on debt bondage slavery in Uttar Pradesh, India is now live. Earlier pieces showed how entire families bec0me embroiled in bonded labor for generations, and depicted the efforts of NGOs like Free the Slaves to stage raids...
